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 Wednesday at 06:08 PM2 days 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 Wednesday at 08:48 PM2 days 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.

On 2/10/2026 at 2:51 PM, janea4old said:

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/

More from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) expects to spend
an estimated 38.3 billion dollars on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees, according to documents the agency sent to the governor of New Hampshire. The documents, published on the state’s website yesterday, disclose that the Department of Homeland Security estimates it will spend 158 million dollars retrofitting a new detention facility in Merrimack, plus an additional estimated 146 million dollars to operate the facility in the first three years.

More on that from Washington Post archived article here
https://archive.is/h1brG

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by janea4old

from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026
Regarding the funding debate in Congress:

A reminder that while the crux of this funding battle is about implementing further guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), federal immigration enforcement
has already received a 75 billion dollar cash infusion, thanks to the Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that he signed into law last year. This means those key agencies are likely to be unaffected by the looming shutdown.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by janea4old