In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts, which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods. These subpoenas have also been used to demand information about people who have criticized Trump officials or protested government policies.

Unlike judicial subpoenas, which are approved by a judge after seeing enough evidence of a crime to authorize a search or seizure of someone’s things, administrative subpoenas are issued by federal agencies, allowing investigators to seek a wealth of information about individuals from tech and phone companies without a judge’s oversight.

For example, they have obtained without judicial approval: info from Meta(instagram) and from Google(including passwords and account details)

Full article on techcrunch:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/homeland-security-is-trying-to-force-tech-companies-to-hand-over-data-about-trump-critics/

More details via washingtonpost without paywall
https://archive.is/kmWHG

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by janea4old

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

I guess they have to do since Conservatives control all of the media but yet Trump is still hated. I didn't know until recentlythat both Newsmax and OAN is on the YouTube TV. Conservatives are successful at making their radicals the norm.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by sivad40

19 minutes ago, sivad40 said:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/

I guess they have to do since Conservatives control all of the media but yet Trump is still hated. I didn't know until recentlythat both Newsmax and OAN is on the YouTube TV. Conservatives are successful at making their radicals the norm.

Who wants to bet that as soon as the next Democrat becomes President, Gallup will start doing presidential approval polls again?

1 hour ago, dannpan said:

Who wants to bet that as soon as the next Democrat becomes President, Gallup will start doing presidential approval polls again?

Presuming, of course, we ever have free and fair elections again.