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Zorro

(17,694 posts)
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 05:11 PM 9 hrs ago

Bondi Takes Revenge on Family of Man Who Created Anti-ICE App

The Justice Department has fired the wife of the man who developed a controversial “anti-ICE” warning system after far-right influencer Laura Loomer went after her on X.

Carolyn Feinstein, who is married to ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron and has served as a forensic accountant at the DOJ’s Office of the U.S. Trustee for almost a decade, received an email from the department on Friday informing her that her position would be terminated.

“This was retribution. I was fired because of the actions, or activism, of my husband,” Feinstein told the Daily Beast Monday. “It is insulting to me because I dedicated myself and my career to serving the people of the United States, and now the DOJ is claiming I was attempting to harm some of them. And that’s not true.”

Feinstein, who specializes in bankruptcy fraud, says she was “targeted” because of her husband’s work. Aaron found himself on the receiving end of MAGA’s fury after giving an interview to CNN late last month in which he explained how his app works and why he had developed it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-justice-department-just-fired-anti-ice-app-founders-wife-after-maga-uproar/

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badhair77

(4,917 posts)
1. McCarthyism, guilt by association, all living well these days.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 05:16 PM
9 hrs ago

trump and his team - I loathe them all.

barbtries

(30,598 posts)
4. She's interviewed in today's episode of the Daily Beans
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:27 PM
7 hrs ago

She was fired without warning via email.

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Qutzupalotl

(15,440 posts)
5. See, I would not have known about this app
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:34 PM
7 hrs ago

without their attempt to suppress it.

Streisand effect in full force. Authoritarians never learn subtlety.

BadgerMom

(3,259 posts)
7. I'm in LA. I have had it since June.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:59 PM
7 hrs ago

My nephew graduated high school and I was concerned for families. I wasn’t attached to LA Unified, but my brother was. He could have let people know. As it turned out, all was well. The Superintendent of LA Unified spoke at the graduation and school district cops were posted everywhere.

My brother and others in the neighborhood were using another app, but I’d read ICEBlocker was better. And it is. Everyone in their household is using it now.

Bernardo de La Paz

(57,163 posts)
6. These people should be hired back when sanity is restored to government.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 06:44 PM
7 hrs ago

It could be a kind of enforced sabbatical. They have lots of knowledge which will be strengthened and diversified by time out of government. Plus, they are kind of owed. But many will have found other livelihoods and will have no interest in returning.

yonder

(10,105 posts)
8. The instituional loss from all of these departures will be enormous . . .
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:03 PM
7 hrs ago

. . . much more than the sum of its parts.

Part of the plan, I suspect. Whether drowned in a bathtub or starved into submission, the Right's wet dream of a dead government body is coming to fruition.

CloudWatcher

(2,056 posts)
10. She doesn't even need a very good lawyer
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:11 PM
7 hrs ago

I'm no lawyer, but I think this is so over-the-top illegal she's going to have her pick of top-talent law firms all begging to represent her.

Maybe they can use the settlement money to try and do an Android version.

reACTIONary

(6,572 posts)
11. This is why anonymity is important...
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:33 PM
6 hrs ago

.... for activists.

They may try to go after him directly via a spurious obstruction of justice charge.

If you don't have to tell anyone who you are, don't.

BaronChocula

(3,004 posts)
12. I support his activism fully but...
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:35 PM
6 hrs ago

Was giving an interview on CNN the best idea given his wife's position and the pettiness of this corrupt regime? Perhaps they discussed the risks beforehand. (?)

B.See

(5,903 posts)
13. Is there a Bondi app in the works?
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 07:41 PM
6 hrs ago

Maybe one that compiles all the stupidly hateful sht she says and does?

wolfie001

(5,725 posts)
14. The 6 "Ball and Strikes" Nazis on the SC has enabled all of this shit
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:09 PM
6 hrs ago

Those motherfuckers have enabled institutional racism to dominate American political thought and policy. Stupid, short-sighted religious fanatics thinking jeebus is coming any minute. Really just a joke at this point. How do we even attempt to fight back at this tragedy?

BidenRocks

(1,857 posts)
15. Wait until we get power back!
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 08:10 PM
6 hrs ago

Have you ever supported Chump, MAGA or the GOP?

Please submit your social media and search history passwords and data.

Just kidding! Get the fuck out!

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