Federal Workers Displaced by DOGE Cuts Still Struggling
Track whether DOGE-related human interest stories consistently appear within 72 hours of major constitutional actions; if pattern holds, recognize it as a distraction playbook and refocus attention on the governance mechanisms being obscured.
This is a human-interest retrospective on year-old workforce reductions with zero constitutional governance impact—it's a labor market story, not a democracy story. The timing is highly suspicious: dropped during a week featuring actual constitutional threats (mail voting restrictions, multi-state legal challenges, military service member bans). The media-volume mismatch is severe—extensive sympathetic coverage of individual hardship stories while structural attacks on voting rights receive less emotional amplification.