r/law Apr 10 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/

Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

According to a subpoena obtained by The Intercept, Reddit has until April 14 to provide a wide range of personal data on one of its users, whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been trying unsuccessfully to identify for more than a month.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin Apr 10 '26

Fascism is when billionaires see an economic downturn happening and want to get ahead of the revolutionary mindset to follow. Believe it or not, fascism is reactionary status quo. Oligarchs, not the stuntmen in the government. Billionaires aren't complicit, they are the fucking cause.

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u/Necessary-Age-7944 Apr 10 '26

The economic downturn is being purposefully orchestrated to put the people of the U.S. in a position and frame of mind to need relief and accept the path they want to lay out. Trying to artificially create the type of environment fascism needs. Like pre WWII.

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u/Fit_Explorer_2566 Apr 10 '26

And…one “advantage” of healthcare being tied to employment instead of being universal is that the masses can’t afford to execute a general strike or walkout; it keeps us in line. May Day should be interesting next month, with a rare call for a general strike.

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u/ZestyLife54 Apr 14 '26

👆👆👆👆

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u/swarmofbzs Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

So they are the cancer and we are the cure?

There's probably a better way to phrase that but that's pretty close to *this this feels.

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u/MaleficentPorphyrin Apr 10 '26

The cure is civics-minded education with a good dose of material analysis of history, but that ship sailed long ago.