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This week, we have updates on Data Security (mostly elections), Archives & History, and Trans Healthcare: unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...

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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Our Equitable Federal Workforce team has been following some labor-protection struggles: 1/3 unbreaking.org/issues/equal...

Equitable Federal Workforce: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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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...

Medicaid: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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Our Food Safety team has been busy, for perhaps obvious reasons. 1/4 unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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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...

Immigration — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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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...

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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So many rulings and legal updates from our Trans Healthcare team! unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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After DOGE cut thousands of jobs early in the administration, demoralized CDC staff are scrambling to hire again. federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-reten...

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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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...

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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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...

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 · last mo.

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...

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 · last mo.

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...

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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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...

Briefing: Immigration + Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

This week, we have quick updates on Immigration and Medical Research Funding.

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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/

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...

Infectious Disease Control & Prevention — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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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...

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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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

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...

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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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...

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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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...

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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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...

Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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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...

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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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...

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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