DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.
In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents. The New York Times saw two subpoenas that were sent to Meta over the last six months.
Not even worth a Chris Coons’ furrow of the brow. What about this, Chris?:
His was not an isolated experience. Among nearly 100 sworn statements filed in federal court on Friday are more than a dozen accounts like Mr. Woo’s, in which federal agents deployed to Minnesota singled out protesters, finding the addresses of their homes and showing up there.
It is not entirely clear how the agents determined the monitors’ home addresses; some assumed the agents had used their vehicles’ license plates. But whatever the case, the sworn statements describe a remarkable projection of police power.
What’s that? As long as it doesn’t happen in Montchanin, it’s none of your concern?
Yer Weekly Dose Of ShowerCap. I remain in awe. He does reiterate a point that Al (Not A I) has made: It can’t be fascism if you f-ck everything up. OK, a sample:
You can structure your whole life around receiving made-up trophies from industries you’ve economically blackmailed, but when you’re the biggest, most despised fuckup alive and also irredeemably addicted to cable news, it’s tough to hide from negative feedback.
WHADDYA MEAN? DIDN’T THEY SEE WHERE I PUT A PICTURE OF AN AUTOPEN IN HIS SPOT IN THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS? And then he tries to throw a bottle of ketchup at the wall, but he’s too weak now, so it lands on the carpet four feet away with a barely audible fart noise that starts another wave of rumors that he shat himself, plus Susie has to reapply the hand makeup that covers up the ever-expanding necrotic splotch.
Yes, the L’s are starting to pile up. Not only did Gruppenführer Homan beat a hasty retreat from occupied Minneapolis with nothing to show for the incursion but historic disapproval levels, but the Dotard himself is losing ground in the dipshit attention economy to some blithering doofus who quite literally hits himself in the face with hammers. And at that last cognitive screening, he was pretty sure that drawing was of a Heffalump, but Dr. Ronny chuckled so nervously…
Ya say ya want some Bondi-shaming?:
The Congressional Subcommittee on How Pam Bondi is Trash held a public hearing to raise awareness of how much even one year of service in Donald Trump’s cabinet can rot a human soul. Pam Bondi’s soul is like those lungs they show you in middle school to scare you out of smoking.
Reviews of Bondi’s tantrum tended towards the negative, but I think she deserves credit for refraining from chastising the Epstein survivors over their frankly conspicuous lack of gratitude for the stock market.
Just read the entire thing, dammit!
Trump Tells Troops At Ft. Bragg To ‘Vote GOP’:
During a Friday address to American troops at Fort Bragg, President Donald Trump campaigned for Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley, telling the crowd that voting for Whatley is “very important because our military has to be protected,” while Democrats will “decimate our military.”
Referencing former governor Roy Cooper (D), who’s currently running against Whatley in the upcoming Senate race, Trump promoted the theory that a COVID-era prison settlement by the ex-governor led to the early release of DeCarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on Charlotte public transit last year. The Charlotte Observer has since proven that sentiment false.
“This was the man, the governor, that allowed this man to get out,” said Trump to a notably silent crowd. “We don’t do that… That’s not gonna happen with Michael Whatley, that I can tell you.”
Seriously, Why Are They Closing The Plummer Center?
Wilmington resident Matthew Levitski has been in and out of prison for the past 20 years. The 42-year-old has a job and renewed hope for the future, he said, thanks to the work-release program at the Plummer Community Corrections Center.
But the state is planning to close the facility next month, despite concerns by those currently imprisoned, their families and community members that the move will hamper reentry efforts for Wilmington residents and lead to more men being reincarcerated.
“It’s not fair at all,” Levitski said. “The people getting out, they’re setting them up for failure.”
Levitski has been working at a local grocery store since around Thanksgiving. He was released back into the community in January. But for other men who were part of the center’s work-release program, they’re being moved downstate. There are work-release sites at Community Corrections Treatment Center near Smyrna and Sussex Community Corrections Center near Georgetown.
The Plummer Community Corrections Center is a 2-acre property located on Wilmington’s eastside and is DOC’s oldest facility, with two of its seven buildings constructed in 1900 and 1921. It housed approximately 100 people as of September 2025.
A DOC spokesperson said New Castle County work-release participants will only be housed in Smyrna.
DOC has estimated the closure of Plummer will save more than $1.1 million. But it is unclear how much it will cost DOC to transport work-release prisoners to their jobs, especially back and forth to Wilmington. The DOC spokesperson said the department believes that operating “a shuttle service using a small number of existing staff and fleet vehicles is far less than the staffing, operational, and maintenance costs for an entire correctional facility.”
It’s hard to conceive of a program more likely to have people fall through the cracks.
Joint Finance Committee members state Sen. Darius Brown and state Rep. Nnamdi Chukwuocha, who both represent Wilmington, voiced their support for decommissioning the Plummer Center during the hearing.
For all you mathematicians out there (and I know that at least one of you reads this), the above statement, translated into a formula, is two times zero = zero.
What do you want to talk about?
Shane’ Darby held a lively community meeting on Wednesday at the PAL on the Plummer Center. Neither Brown nor Chukwuocha felt the need to face the community. There were 2 guys there that work for the state, one in the AG’s office and the other who runs an unrelated Commission. They professed their support for the Plummer but did so as they admitted it was gonna close, thanks guys! John Carney was the Guv when this plan was hatched, and he is only too happy to participate in the erasure of one of the few DOC programs that actually does some serious good in the Wilmington Community. Governor Meyer, as a product of the Plummer ’09 I am begging you to please reconsider this mean spirited and tone deaf decision.
What?!?!? Can’t they just go to the Delaware skills center?
Now that you mention it, I see no reason why there can’t be a working relationship between the residents of Plummer House and the Delaware Skills Center.
Perhaps there already is.
Sounds great but under the DOC plan inmates will be housed a minimum of 40 miles and as far as 80 miles from the Skills Center. This logistical nightmare is impacting the ability of reentering folks from working in their communities. DOC is represents that there will be transport. The members of the community who spoke on behalf of their incarcerated family members Wednesday testified that this “transportation” is logistically a nightmare and difficult to access.
The beauty of the Plummer is that it represents community corrections in the community, making partnerships with facilities like the Skills Center possible.
I notice that, among the myriad construction projects the state is always rubber-stamping, there’s no proposal to replace an aging facility with something more modern.
Why aren’t the construction unions trying to get something built?
I feel gross agreeing with Shupe, but how the state found 23 mil to build a parking garage for leg hall while schools and other facilities fall apart is beyond me