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Department of People Who Work for a Living. Providing accountability for Elon and the anti-worker DOGE. deptofpeoplewhowork.org

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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 1h
Remember all the tech bro billionaires at Trump’s inauguration? He had them all at the White House yesterday. Again. He’s on their side, not working people. This is why we need AI guardrails.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 2h
As Elon proved with DOGE, anything that he has his hands in is bound to help line his pockets and hurt working people across the country. mashable.com/tech/trump-admin-launc…
mashable.com
Trump's AI-powered America.gov is here. Built by DOGE alumni and runs on Gemini, Grok.
America.gov promises passport renewals and Medicare enrollment in 2027. On day one, it backed the 2020 election results.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 3h
What’s in this Elon Musk documentary that four social media platforms got nervous about showing us the trailer? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…
hollywoodreporter.com
YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump promised to fix the cost of living crisis but instead we’ve got a “can I trust the food I just paid too much for?” crisis. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pasta…
nbcchicago.com
Pasta sold nationwide at Walmart recalled over possible listeria contamination
Pasta sold nationwide at Walmart stores is being recalled over possible listeria contamination, according to a recent announcement from the FDA.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Trump admin is ripping even MORE people from their health care. Everything is already too expensive and taking away health care from hundreds of thousands more will only make workers’ lives harder. newrepublic.com/post/215713/jd-vanc…
newrepublic.com
JD Vance Rips Health Care Away From Hundreds of Thousands of People
All in the name of preventing fraud, apparently.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Working people need a government that works for them and focuses on lowering costs, not making billionaires and CEOs even richer.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Working people are sick and tired of having to hope and pray that they’ll be able to pay for rent, utilities and groceries—while billionaires and CEOs are making record pay and bonuses. Enough is enough.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Trump approval falls to record low of 32% as high costs bite, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
President Donald Trump's approval rating fell to ​32% - the lowest of his political career - as his fellow Republicans soured on his handling of the cost of living amid the unpopular Iran ‌war, a new ...
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We wouldn’t consider it “managing his agency competently” when there are consistent outbreaks of preventable diseases and groceries that can make us sick or kill us, but idk maybe we just set expectations too high for RFK Jr.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elon Musk and DOGE put federal workers in an impossible position. If they stood up for our essential services, they risked their jobs, and they could be forced out anyway. This… doesn’t seem like eliminating waste OR helping government efficiency.
cnn.com
Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work in 2025 under DOGE plan | CNN Politics
The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimat...
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cutting FEMA’s workforce in half was always a disastrous idea. It’s a major win for everyone that this destructive plan was stopped in court.
news.bloomberglaw.com
Trump Plan to Cut FEMA Workforce in Half Unlawful, Judge Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to reduce the federal disaster management agency’s workforce by half is arbitrary and capricious in violation of federal admnistrative law, a federal jud...
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ah yeah, THIS will help calm workers’ fears of AI taking their jobs and invading their privacy and destroying their rights.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Making up another BS name can’t hide the law that gutted our health care to give tax breaks to the Trump admin’s billionaire friends.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Crooked politicians know that controlling the story of our past helps them control our future. Secretary Lonnie Bunch’s departure comes after a year of attacks from an administration determined to rewrite American history.
washingtonpost.com
Smithsonian chief to retire as Trump fights to reshape the institution
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the Smithsonian’s first Black secretary, said President Donald Trump’s pressure played no role in his decision and vowed to defend the institution’s independence until he leaves.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Trump is focused on anything BUT helping working people.
theguardian.com
Trump renames places and poses as superhero in bizarre social media blitz
Trump passed the long weekend posting a torrent of memes and musings on his Truth Social platform
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They couldn’t even use a photo of an American worker for LABOR DAY.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whether he’s making his own memecoins or literal U.S. currency (with a markup price!!) President Trump is not focused on helping working people with their finances. He’s only worried about his own.
cbsnews.com
Gold-colored $1 Trump coins are now available, but it will cost you more than $1 to buy one
The U.S. Mint said the President Donald J. Trump $1 coin can be bought in packages of 25 for $61 or 100 coins for $154.50.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More than 17,000 people have gotten sick in a record-breaking foodborne illness outbreak. This is what gutting public health looks like. stateline.org/2026/08/31/a-summer-o…
stateline.org
A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net • Stateline
Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts. A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce that has sickened thousands, has raised many...
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Trump’s pre-Labor Day message to working families already struggling to make ends meet: “you should be working more, actually.”
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Trump has appointed 57 people worth at least $100 million to his administration. That’s more than four times the combined total under Bush, Obama and Biden.
apnews.com
Trump dwarfs his predecessors in the number of ultra-rich in his second White House, report shows
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Elon is getting ready to spend a fortune on the midterm elections this year to protect his money and his tax breaks so he can get even richer. Working people are ready to stand up, vote and fight back!
politico.com
Mike Johnson planning to meet with Elon Musk in Texas
The planned meeting Friday comes as Musk is reportedly considering spending at least $100 million to boost the GOP this fall.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Reflecting Pool this morning, after spending nearly $15 million to not actually fix it (should have hired union workers!). Now, they have to spend millions more to fix it… again. Efficient!
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Don't you have ANYTHING more important to do to help people who work for a living?
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trump fired the federal watchdogs who stopped waste, fraud, abuse and misconduct in federal agencies and replaced them with political loyalists — and our essential services and the workers who rely on them have suffered since.
nytimes.com
Trump Fired the Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission.
President Trump is installing his allies in the offices of inspector general, which are meant to provide independent government oversight.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What CAN we eat at this point? Lettuce causes diarrhea, we have screwworms in our meat, blueberries can kill you — and Trump’s economy has made it so we can’t even afford the groceries that can kill us!
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Elon made a joke about a meme dog in 2024 and now none of us know what the weather is going to be like when we go to work or come home. DOGE made every day life more inconvenient. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/am…
independent.co.uk
DOGE destroyed how America forecasts its weather. Everyone is mad about it
Fewer weather balloons and wave-monitoring buoys are being launched to collect data for weather forecasts
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Instead of looking at the information with an open mind, the Trump admin is just deleting or editing government data that they don’t agree with. It helps nobody when we have to work on bad data.
theguardian.com
Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Gutting NOAA and the National Weather Service is screwing America’s fishermen and farmers… and just about everyone else too.
forbes.com
DOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For It
Elon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Despite Trump tearing down policies to protect working people from discrimination and harassment and insisting they were bad for business, companies that kept their diversity policies thrived.
theguardian.com
US firms that kept DEI policies despite ‘go woke, go broke’ threats thrived
Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Gutting the IRS alone is projected to cost us $600 billion in lost revenue from making sure wealthy tax cheats pay their taxes over the next decade. Hell of a way to save money.
motherjones.com
Elon Musk’s DOGE promised savings, but it's cost us a fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump cut 5,800+ Forest Service jobs. Now, wildfires are raging and there aren’t enough workers where they’re needed. This is a catastrophe.
nytimes.com
Federal Job Cuts Are Making Wildfires Harder to Fight
The Trump administration pushed out thousands of veteran U.S. Forest Service staff. An ‘extraordinary’ fire season is testing those who are left.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The government agency that is supposed to help Americans during emergencies and in their most dire time of need was being led by a “shadow administrator” paid by a company owned by a member of DOGE. Concerning!
wired.com
FEMA's ‘Shadow Administrator’ Was Paid by a DOGE Member's Startup for Months
Details from recent court filings show that DOGE's influence within government—and potential conflicts of interest—extend further than previously known.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Nothing says “fiscal responsibility” like half a billion dollars in parked planes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/us/polit…
nytimes.com
Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.
The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is the real, everyday cost of gutting the government. You cut staff at programs like the National Weather Service, and people can end up paying with their lives. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/weather/nws-…
cnn.com
A software glitch prevented weather warnings from going out as deadly storms struck Midwest | CNN
An unusually long and far-reaching communications outage hobbled the National Weather Service just as deadly severe thunderstorms were tearing across the Midwest and Ohio Valley on Tuesday evening.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Trump’s administration screwed up the Reflecting Pool and was willing to throw an Olympian in jail rather than own up to its incompetence. Next time, just hire union workers to get the job done right the first time.
nytimes.com
Trump Concedes There Was ‘Some Contractor Error’ in Reflecting Pool Renovations
The president had insisted for weeks that the landmarks’ algae-stained waters and peeling lining were the fault of vandals, not the project itself.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
DOGE gutted the federal workforce and created chaos in the essential services millions of Americans rely on. Now we’re left picking through the wreckage while the people responsible lie about the damage they caused.
yahoo.com
We’re still learning the damage Musk and DOGE wrought
New reports from the GAO show that Elon Musk and DOGE weren’t careful with their staffing cuts and savings from slashing federal spending.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A year ago today, in an insane abuse of power and disgusting waste of resources, Trump deployed the National Guard on D.C. A political stunt that has cost taxpayers millions and used our nation’s capital as a backdrop for attacks on workers’ freedoms.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In a new report, the Government Accountability Office has revealed that DOGE lied about their cuts. What were they hiding?
cbsnews.com
DOGE's "wall of receipts" riddled with inaccuracies and unsubstantiated claims, congressional watchdog says
The Government Accountability Office found that DOGE overestimated its savings, among other issues.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump said he deserves an A+ on the economy - the same economy that lost 23,000 jobs in July, and saw people leaving the workforce. Working people deserve an economy that works for them, not just for the rich and powerful.
washingtonpost.com
Hiring slumped unexpectedly in July, as the economy shed 23,000 jobs
The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent, according to new Labor Department data, due mainly to people leaving the workforce.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
DOGE upended lives, hollowed out the federal government and flouted ethics rules. American workers deserve to know who was responsible. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
washingtonpost.com
Government watchdog still can’t identify all who worked for DOGE
Over a year after Elon Musk left the government, it remains unclear who was in DOGE and if they understood ethics rules.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Is this…dancing? Or trying to distract Americans from looking too closely at how much destruction DOGE did to our government and the services we rely on?
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Cyclospora? Now Salmonella? Trump and RFK Jr. are spending more time making themselves and their friends richer than making Americans healthier. www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/health/chipo…
cnn.com
Chipotle pulls jalapeños from some restaurants as health officials investigate salmonella outbreak | CNN
Chipotle Mexican Grill said Tuesday that it had removed jalapeños from some of its restaurants after determining the peppers could potentially be tied to a salmonella outbreak that public health offic...
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
If working people pay their fair share of taxes, the president who has made billions of dollars while in office should too. No one should get special treatment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/business…
nytimes.com
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
As record heat waves were felt across the country this year, Trump and his allies rolled back policies that protect workers from the extreme heat.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Is Undoing Plans to Boost Workplace Heat Protections
The Biden administration took steps to shield workers from extreme temperatures. The Trump administration is taking a gentler approach with employers.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump continues to push the ridiculous lie that vandalism rather than shoddy work caused the damage to the reflecting pool to cover up his own administration’s incompetence. Even his longtime allies now say he is wrong.
nbcnews.com
Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro over decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case
The president maintained his claim that the pool had been vandalized after Pirro’s office said new evidence showed the damage resulted from a “botched installation.”
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by the recent wildfires in Washington. In moments like this, we’re reminded of the important work that federal workers do for our communities - including studying how wildfires affect our health.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration’s Cuts Targeted Wildfire Research
Labs at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service have analyzed the effects of wildfires. The administration wants to shutter them.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
No worker, including federal workers, should be forcefully relocated to keep their jobs. Especially to buildings that may or may not still have…bedbugs?! www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-589608…
npr.org
Bedbugs, bad Wi-Fi: Federal workers say forced summer relocations have been chaos
Federal agencies are rushing to move hundreds of workers into new buildings. Employees say the moves are significantly disrupting their work.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well, at least we know what he’s doing instead of caring about Americans struggling to pay their bills.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The State Department mislabeled literally every country on a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference and Reuters uncovered it was generated by AI. Global embarrassment, brought to you by DOGE cuts and unqualified “leaders.”
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Trump loves to talk about manufacturing but construction is declining under his leadership - down by 25% from the high in 2024. Losing 75,000 manufacturing jobs is nothing to brag about.
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People Who Work @deptofworkers.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump wants 10 million more dollars to cover the costs he racked up for his Freedom 250 events… as if the Fyre Festival on the National Mall earlier this month wasn’t already enough. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…
washingtonpost.com
Trump administration seeks $10 million more for Freedom 250 events
The Interior Department has asked Congress for more money to pay for National Mall events marking the country’s 250th anniversary.
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