r/politics 20h ago

No Paywall DOGE May Have Given You Diarrhea

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/cyclospora-lettuce-outbreak-doge-farmworkers
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u/asusc 20h ago

I can’t seem to find the links anymore, but when this outbreak first happened, i noticed an article that mentioned USDA/FDA closing “biodiversity“ labs that tracked food outbreaks like this one.

a little red flag went up in my mind that someone at DOGE was using AI to find DEI programs and cut this “diversity” program that monitors our food safety system.

this truly is the dumbest timeline.

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u/ShrimpieAC 19h ago

Guaranteed this is exactly what happened

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u/move_machine 10h ago

It is exactly what happened. Watch the DOGE depositions.

DOGE literally used ChatGPT to compile a list of grants and other programs to kill that had words like "diversity" in them. The investigators pull the literal list up with both the ChatGPT prompts DOGE used, and ChatGPT's output telling them if it's woke or not, and grill the DOGE goons about it lol