The 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.
They can start here, fuck ICE
We are at war.
They should save time and just ask for the pro-ICE accounts, it will be a much smaller list. Then again most of that list is probably already working for ICE.
Good luck with the Fediverse.
I expect them to use the NSA instead of a warrant
Fascists gotta fascist.
Yo.
I thought the department was shut down for budget reasons. How’s it demanding anything right now.
ICE has $75B on-hand from the “Big Bogus Bill” and is still operating as normal including continuing to pay agents and staff. Other DHS agencies, like the TSA, are shut down but many people are required to continue working without pay because they are “essential”.
required to continue working without pay because they are “essential”.
An employer might say this to their employees but it is false. You are not required to work without pay. You can stop working when the payment stops and claim unemployment. You cannot be fired for doing this, either. Not then, and not later for some other trivial thing. It will be super easy to show it’s retaliatory. You can sue for lost wages when this is the case for your separation.
Many reading this are sucked into a fucking doom spiral and will think “yeah, that’ll never work.” You’re unequivocally incorrect. And if it happens at a place of work rather than to an individual, the case is beyond a fucking slam dunk. Just get like 3 of you to contact a law firm for a class action against the employer, then get every employee you can on board. This would be retirement money levels of settlement. No question. It is egregious and indefensible. The US govt will lose that case every time. Employment lawyers win these cases literally every day. One this big is their wettest fucking dream.
I’m not trying to be snarky here. I’m just struggling with how to make this not sounds snarky.
You’re incorrect. You would be correct for any other workers but federal employees are different. I was a federal employee and have witnessed those differences first-hand. The TSA is absolutely required to continue working without pay. If you search for info on it, there are many articles discussing this issue every time there is a shutdown. For example.
