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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/09/2026
This week, we have timeline updates from Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, Trans Healthcare, and Archives & History. You can always find the latest on all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org.
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Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/09/2026
This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, Medicaid, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/09/2026
This week we have updates on Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, and Archives & History (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/08/2026
This week we have updates on Immigration, Medical Research Funding, and Food Safety (and you can always find all our tracked issues at unbreaking.org).
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Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/08/2026
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network recently deleted most of a business ownership database created under the Corporate Transparency Act, and going forward, businesses can go back to keeping secrets about who actually owns them. 1/5 home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...
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FinCEN Permanently Ends Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements for Millions of Small Business Owners
Will Delete Information Previously Reported by U.S. Persons WASHINGTON––Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership …
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 25/08/2026
Despite lacking anything remotely like evidence, the White House just tried to remake the childhood vaccine schedule by fiat. No support from pediatricians, and no success in court—no problem! They’ve got executive orders to spare. 1/4 publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/what-do...
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What Does the Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines Say? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s guidance calls for reducing the number of routine immunizations for children and separated measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/08/2026
We’ve been learning a lot lately about how federal agencies surveil us: We all know that people are mad about Flock cameras and starting to get loud. Now we know that law enforcement is monitoring social media (and conflating dissent with destructive threat). 1/6 www.404media.co/the-governme...
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The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Documents from law enforcement spy centers show the government is warning cops of "extensive and ongoing chatter on social media" about methods to "physically destroy Flock LPR cameras."
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/08/2026
This week we have the latest on mail-in voting (again), attacks on childhood vaccines (yes also again), and competing efforts to destroy or salvage public archives. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security, Infectious Disease Control + more — Unbreaking
The latest on mail-in voting (again), another attempt to limit childhood vaccines, and efforts to salvage public archives.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/08/2026
The biggest cyclospora outbreak—Michigan’s—may finally be slowing, but not before two deaths and 20,000 illnesses nationwide. Despite its MAHA bluster about “real food,” the government’s response has been chaotic, leaving many in the US afraid of…vegetables. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Fear of lettuce is making RFK Jr.'s food messaging harder for consumers to swallow
The parasite, which spreads via fresh produce and can cause explosive diarrhea, has sickened thousands of Americans in this summer’s record outbreak.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/08/2026
We saw three different bits of good news for unionized federal workers. Arbitrators confirm that the Trump administration has violated collective bargaining agreements and implemented unfair labor practices. unbreaking.org/issues/equal...
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Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 17/08/2026
On July 28th, DHS issued a new rule that allows officers to “use their discretion” on whether or not to grant some asylum seekers an interview or send them straight into deportation proceedings, upending decades of due process norms. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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New rule limits interviews for asylum seekers, fast-tracking deportations
A new Department of Homeland Security rule will put more asylum seekers into deportation proceedings without an interview, affecting thousands of Minnesotans.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 14/08/2026
This week, we have the latest on arbitration rulings in favor of federal employees, the cyclospora outbreak, and the litany of deaths and cruelties against immigrants. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Federal Workforce + more — Unbreaking
The latest on arbitration rulings in favor of federal employees, the cyclospora outbreak, and the litany of cruelties against immigrants.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13/08/2026
Federal workers have sued the government over a new policy that denies insurance coverage for gender-affirming care for trans employees or their family members but notably covers cis people receiving the exact same care with no issue. 1/4 news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...
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Transgender Federal Workers Sue OPM Over Health Insurance Cutoff
A group of transgender and non-binary federal workers and one worker with a transgender child filed a proposed class action against the Office of Personnel Management on Monday, alleging the Trump adm...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 12/08/2026
Our Archives & History team is tracking yet more attacks on the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History: A House committee recently hauled its director before Congress to yell at her about “woke ideology.” 1/5 ​​https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5902101/smithsonian-house-hearing
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 11/08/2026
The CDC has a director again! But even that good news comes with caveats. Dr. Erica Schwartz is well-credentialed and was confirmed by the Senate, but she evaded direct questions about handling political interference from members of the Trump administration. 1/7 www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
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Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling a leadership vacuum
Schwartz takes command of a public health agency that has lost thousands of employees amid layoffs, resignations and leadership turmoil.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 10/08/2026
Law enforcement’s favorite nationwide network of surveillance cameras and microphones, Flock Safety, can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. 1/7
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 07/08/2026
This week's briefing has our latest on the mail-in voting decision before SCOTUS, a new measles record, public health leadership, more trouble for the Smithsonian, and who the government will allow to receive gender-affirming care (spoiler, it’s cis people). unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security, Infectious Disease Control + more — Unbreaking
The latest on mail-in voting, public health leadership, what counts as “historic,” and who is allowed gender-affirming care.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 05/08/2026
The fight over research funding boils down to whether grantmaking should be a rigorous and competitive process …or just another perk for Trump’s friends and flatterers. 1/7 unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
Lots of Immigration news, plus updates from Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and Medicaid.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 04/08/2026
Our Food Safety update this round was all about Cyclospora. Sorry. 1/7 unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
Lots of Immigration news, plus updates from Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and Medicaid.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 03/08/2026
We added so many events to the Immigration timeline this round that our one-paragraph briefing turned into three. 1/9 unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
Lots of Immigration news, plus updates from Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and Medicaid.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 31/07/2026
This week, we have updates from Immigration, Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and Medicaid. Read the briefings from our teams here: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
Lots of Immigration news, plus updates from Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and Medicaid.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 29/07/2026
This week, we’re highlighting two themes in Archives & History: (1) Legal battles over the erasure of marginalized people from historical sites and national parks and (2) efforts to undermine the Smithsonian Institution’s credibility and independence. 1/7 unbreaking.org/issues/archi...
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Archives & History — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 28/07/2026
I regret to inform you that all of our updates in trans healthcare this week are procedural—neither good news nor bad. Sometimes it’s like that. 🤷‍♀️1/7
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 27/07/2026
Have you heard about the DOJ’s uninterrupted cascade of failures to get any court to rule that they can seize unredacted state voter rolls? This week’s Data Security update adds losses in Connecticut, Virginia, New Mexico, West Virginia, and New York to our tally. 1/5 unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
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Data Security — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/07/2026
This week, we have updates on Data Security (mostly elections), Archives & History, and Trans Healthcare: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security, Archives & History + Trans Healthcare — Unbreaking
Vote-by-mail rulings, attacks on the Smithsonian, and the latest on trans healthcare.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 23/07/2026
Our Equitable Federal Workforce team has been following some labor-protection struggles: 1/3 unbreaking.org/issues/equal...
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Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 22/07/2026
Our latest updates about Medicaid are, as usual, related to the fact that the federal government would like to Not Pay For Things People Need. 1/4 unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 21/07/2026
Our Food Safety team has been busy, for perhaps obvious reasons. 1/4 unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
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Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 20/07/2026
We skipped a publication cycle in June, so we’ve posted 42 new entries in the Immigration timeline this round. A lot has been happening. 1/6 unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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Immigration — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 17/07/2026
This week, we have a very large timeline update from Immigration and smaller updates from Food Safety, Medicaid, and Federal Workforce. Our weekly briefing covers all four at highest speed: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration, Food Safety + more — Unbreaking
This week we have a short briefing about so many events in Immigration, some upsetting things happening in Food Safety, and quick updates from our Medicaid and Federal Workforce teams.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 15/07/2026
So many rulings and legal updates from our Trans Healthcare team! unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 14/07/2026
After DOGE cut thousands of jobs early in the administration, demoralized CDC staff are scrambling to hire again. federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-reten...
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CDC must ‘make hard decisions’ triaging work after elevating Ebola response | Federal News Network
A CDC employee said the agency is reeling from deep workforce cuts and “running on fumes.” It lost thousands of employees last year, and has hired hundreds.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13/07/2026
The DOJ is suing 4 states for 5 years of SNAP applicant data under the banner of fighting “waste, fraud, and abuse.” It’s not the first time they’ve tried to get this data either. Kentucky and Pennsylvania call it a bad-faith ploy to bypass previous court losses. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...
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DOJ accuses 4 states of refusing to provide SNAP data to federal officials
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania, accusing the states of refusing to provide the U.S. Department of Agriculture with data on Supplementa...
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 10/07/2026
This week, we have updates on data security, infectious disease control & prevention, and transgender healthcare. Our weekly briefing is up here: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, Trans Healthcare — Unbreaking
This week we have quick updates on Data Security, Infectious Disease Control, and Trans Healthcare.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/06/2026
Medical research is still under fire, and unfortunately its enemies are getting *less* messy: NIH staffers report that “The chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026.” 1/4 www.govexec.com/workforce/20...
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A year after sounding the alarm, NIH dissenters say political influence is entrenched at research agency
The Trump administration has cut staff and grants at the National Institutes of Health, and employees warn further overhauls appear to be likely.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 22/06/2026
On June 4, 2026, 43-year-old Georgian national Mamuka Artmeladze died in ICE custody. He had been detained for 119 days, had no criminal record, and had no known order of removal. 1/4 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...
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ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze Dies at Winn Correctional
Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. ICE forced taxpayers to pay $18,000 detaining him anyway.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/06/2026
Other horrors—and a strategic shift away from showy public violence—have pushed the Trump administration's immigration agenda out of the headlines, but it's still grinding away. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Immigration + Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
This week, we have quick updates on Immigration and Medical Research Funding.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 18/06/2026
The “I do what I want” approach to policy and executive reach has had mixed legal success, but the Trump administration sure is sticking with it, and it has not been great for trans people.Our timeline has updates on recent actions.1/5 ​​https://unbreaking.org/issues/transgender-healthcare/timeline/
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 17/06/2026
The US is currently failing to manage infectious disease, in ways large and small. We have new updates on how we’re (mis)handling the ebolavirus outbreak and steering ourselves into oncoming waves of vaccine-preventable disease. 1/9 unbreaking.org/issues/infec...
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Infectious Disease Control & Prevention — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 16/06/2026
On May 28, a judge refused to block Trump’s executive order directing the USPS to impede mail ballots for any voters who don’t match a (super shoddy!) federal citizenship list. Democrats appealed, but the Postal Service enacted the order anyway. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...
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Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 15/06/2026
Our most recent Archives & History update tracks maneuvers related to two big Trump admin trends: 1) restricting access to information 2) revising and controlling historical narratives 1/9
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 12/06/2026
Infuriating and dangerous things are happening with voter data and federal control of elections. Our Data Security team breaks it down: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security + more — Unbreaking
This week we have a Data Security focus, plus updates on Infectious Disease Control, Archives & History, and Trans Healthcare.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 09/06/2026
In #Medicaid last week we got 1 new rule, 387 pages(!), and slightly more clarity on work requirements: The medical frailty exemption only applies when conditions “significantly impair” ability to work. Documentation criteria will disqualify a LOT of people. 1/4 www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/m...
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Trump’s Medicaid work requirements have an unwelcome surprise for some states and patients
Advocates were already dreading Medicaid's work requirements. New rules are worse than they feared.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 08/06/2026
There is a broadly illustrative struggle for human and civil rights going on at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ, where detainees have launched a hunger strike against poor conditions. 1/8 newjerseymonitor.com/2026/05/22/d...
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Newark migrant jail detainees launch hunger, labor strike over conditions behind bars • New Jersey Monitor
Delaney Hall detainees launched a hunger strike Friday after nearly 300 of them signed a letter calling attention to the conditions inside.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 05/06/2026
That old cliche “if you don’t like the game, change the rules” is getting a workout. The Trump administration keeps losing in court, so they’re taking their ball elsewhere and creating an authoritarian mess in the rulemaking docket. 1/8 unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 05/06/2026
The briefing this week has coverage of recent executive power-grabs affecting government workers and scientists, plus updates about immigration and Medicaid. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: On our federal scientific workforce + more — Unbreaking
This week we focus on executive power-grabs affecting Equitable Federal Workforce and Medical Research Funding, and we have shorter updates on Immigration and Medicaid.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 27/05/2026
The FDA is having a weird month. Former Commissioner Marty Makary is out, along with the acting director of the agency’s drugs center. Deputy Commissioner for Food Kyle Diamantas now leads the FDA as Acting Commissioner. 1/7 www.statnews.com/2026/05/15/f...
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FDA leadership shakeup widens following Makary's departure
The acting director of the FDA’s drug center, Tracy Beth Høeg, is leaving the agency. The news come days after Commissioner Marty Makary handed in his resignation.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 26/05/2026
We need to take a moment to talk about what the administration’s immigration policies and “enforcement” actions are doing to children and families. Be aware, some of this reporting is devastating to read. 1/12
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 22/05/2026
This week we have three quick updates: Immigration, Food Safety, and Medical Research funding. unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Quick updates from Immigration, Food Safety + Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
Quick updates on Immigration, Food Safety, and Medical Research Funding.
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 19/05/2026
In Data Security, the Trump administration keeps trying to compile sensitive information of many kinds, for many purposes, none of which are good. Our rundown:
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