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 PM5 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 PM5 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 Friday at 10:23 PM3 days 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 Friday at 10:27 PM3 days by janea4old

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.

Detained immigrants have filed more than 20,000 lawsuits seeking their release.

Trump administration continues detentions despite court rulings.

Sheer scale of the lawsuits threatens to clog the judicial system.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

Edited Sunday at 03:46 AM1 day by janea4old

The Trump administration is doing everything possible to rewrite our country's history. In the age of social media, however, that is simply impossible.

21 hours ago, Khan said:

The Trump administration is doing everything possible to rewrite our country's history. In the age of social media, however, that is simply impossible.

I have many issues with social media, but this is one instance where it is very useful.

15 minutes ago, I Am A Swede said:

I have many issues with social media, but this is one instance where it is very useful.

ICAM. In many ways, social media is no better than the graffiti you'd find on any public restroom wall. But it's also the best weapon we've had in terms of documenting the level of hatred that keeps coming from the right.

There are so many wonderful pictures of President Obama. I like that NAACP chose the picture of Obama taking the Oath of Office to uphold the Constitution.

John Oliver's excellent analysis of the horrid Dept. Homeland Security and ICE

Bluesky thread by Dax (David J.) Schwartz @snurri.bsky.social

Minnesotan (she/they)

https://tbsky.app/profile/snurri.bsky.social/post/3mewtlek6bs25

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

These are suburban white kids, with one latinx member. Whose father happens to work at a school in Minneapolis, and was one of the people tackled by ICE when they swarmed his school as it was letting out. They were abducting kids while other kids jumped on the agents to try to stop them. (2/?)

And these kids decided, on their own, to play a benefit show for families impacted by the surge. At that first show they had hoped to raise a couple thousand dollars. Their families and friends came to Minneapolis and packed the house. They ended up raising over 10 grand. (3/?)

I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)

They had a silent auction for art with ICE OUT and the rebel loon. When I put in my donation to their link for families from Minneapolis schools the total was at $39k and change for a goal of $40k. (5/?)

This isn't over. It may not be over for a long while yet. But I am 100 percent convinced that we are going to win. (7/7)

Hey many people are reading this thread and if those of you with a little cash donated to this GFM we could ensure that a great place right here in my neighborhood outlasts ICE's visit
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-mercado-central-from-closure
Link preview: Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from closure, acooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs

OK, last thing: I asked my niece if it was OK to share the band's Instagram and she said sure but y'all BETTER BE NICE
https://www.instagram.com/kick.start.band/

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