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riversedge

(76,811 posts)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 07:47 AM Jul 23

🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ just fired a federal employee not for misconduct, but because her husband built an app that tracks I




🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ just fired a federal employee not for misconduct, but because her husband built an app that tracks ICE raids.

You read that right. A woman lost her government job for who she married.

They didn’t accuse her of leaking data. They didn’t prove wrongdoing.

Her “crime” was being married to a man who used his First Amendment rights to challenge an unaccountable immigration dragnet.
7:22 PM · Jul 21, 2025








Bondi Takes Revenge on Family of Man Who Created Anti-ICE App
ICED OUT
Joshua Aaron created ICEBlock to show where raids are taking place. Now the DOJ is making moves.

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🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ just fired a federal employee not for misconduct, but because her husband built an app that tracks I (Original Post) riversedge Jul 23 OP
That is who they are creon Jul 23 #1
What happens under a dictatorship. sinkingfeeling Jul 23 #2
Guilt by association. You've got free speech, as long as you're okay with the government firing your spouse. (nt) thesquanderer Jul 23 #3
Pretty soon they'll be executing people instead of firing them. Ligyron Jul 23 #4
Yep...as we inch closer and closer to NAZI AMERICA on a daily basis Bengus81 Jul 23 #7
DOJ also fired the acting US Attorney for NJ pfitz59 Jul 23 #5
So what Bondi,the app will still be out there. Hope he makes some coin on the app. Bengus81 Jul 23 #6
She's better off, keeping the husband and losing the job FakeNoose Jul 23 #8

thesquanderer

(12,696 posts)
3. Guilt by association. You've got free speech, as long as you're okay with the government firing your spouse. (nt)
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 09:23 AM
Jul 23

pfitz59

(11,697 posts)
5. DOJ also fired the acting US Attorney for NJ
Wed Jul 23, 2025, 10:06 AM
Jul 23

After the judges fired Trump's intial choice. Vile and evil.

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