2/ DHS calls it a subpoena for national security. What it actually got him: a demand for his Google login history, IP addresses, credit card numbers, and even his Social Security number, all triggered by one polite, four sentence email. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weaponUnder Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.www.washingtonpost.com3/ Jon is not alone. An anonymous Reddit user who joked about a TSA slogan got the same treatment. When the admin subpoena lost in court, prosecutors did not walk away. They opened a secret grand jury in DC and ordered Reddit to appear. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r...
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.theintercept.com4/ Here is the pattern hiding in plain sight. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has sent hundreds of these subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit and Discord, and it keeps withdrawing them right before a judge can rule against it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE AccountsThe department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said...www.nytimes.com6/ Now watch the same trick played with money instead of subpoenas. Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard just froze donor advised fund donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights nonprofit, over an indictment it has not been convicted of. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...
Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in CourtFidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations, acting as the government’s de facto censors.theintercept.com
8/ It is not only outside pressure making this case. Congressional Democrats Jamie Raskin and Mary Gay Scanlon sent DOJ a formal letter saying whistleblowers describe the SPLC case as rushed and legally weak, part of a wider pattern, not a one off. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov9/ House Republicans are running the press version of the same play. They subpoenaed BreakThrough News, a left leaning outlet, plus the People's Forum and Tricontinental, over funding tied to one wealthy donor with alleged China ties. truthout.org/articles/hou...
House Republicans Subpoena Left-Wing Groups Amid Trump Administration CrackdownThe move comes as the Trump administration has escalated its efforts to attack left-wing movements at home and abroad.truthout.org
