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Our final briefing of 2025 covers updates in immigration, data security, and medical research funding, plus brand-new material in trans healthcare. It’s unusually long, but we found some good news to mix in with the bad.
Our final briefing of 2025 covers updates in immigration, data security, and medical research funding, plus brand-new material in trans healthcare. It’s unusually long, but we found some good news to mix in with the bad.
December 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Our final briefing of 2025 covers updates in immigration, data security, and medical research funding, plus brand-new material in trans healthcare. It’s unusually long, but we found some good news to mix in with the bad.
After grant reinstatements, the total estimate of canceled and delayed NIH funding this year has dropped from more than $5 billion to $730 million.
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
After grant reinstatements, the total estimate of canceled and delayed NIH funding this year has dropped from more than $5 billion to $730 million.
The year in data security has been a mess of data grabs, consolidation across agencies, and expanding surveillance. We’ve also seen steady erosion of cybersecurity and data protections in the government, leaving all our information vulnerable to misuse and theft.
December 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The year in data security has been a mess of data grabs, consolidation across agencies, and expanding surveillance. We’ve also seen steady erosion of cybersecurity and data protections in the government, leaving all our information vulnerable to misuse and theft.
Our Trans Healthcare team has just published a brand-new chronological timeline of Trump administration and congressional attacks on the people and institutions providing gender-affirming care:
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Transgender Healthcare: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Our Trans Healthcare team has just published a brand-new chronological timeline of Trump administration and congressional attacks on the people and institutions providing gender-affirming care:
unbreaking.org/issues/trans...
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The administration has doubled down on two major parts of its immigration agenda: violent crackdowns in “blue” US cities and chaotic attacks on refugees and other people pursuing lawful immigration.
December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The administration has doubled down on two major parts of its immigration agenda: violent crackdowns in “blue” US cities and chaotic attacks on refugees and other people pursuing lawful immigration.
We’re beginning to wrap our first year of documenting the ways the Trump administration is making us sicker, poorer, and less safe.
December 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We’re beginning to wrap our first year of documenting the ways the Trump administration is making us sicker, poorer, and less safe.
Our update this week begins with Data Security news. Despite reports last week that DOGE has disbanded, Elon Musk–affiliated tech workers are still embedded across federal agencies and leading data pooling and destruction of data safeguards.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Our update this week begins with Data Security news. Despite reports last week that DOGE has disbanded, Elon Musk–affiliated tech workers are still embedded across federal agencies and leading data pooling and destruction of data safeguards.
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
www.wired.com/story/what-i...
While Thanksgiving in the US has some pretty … loaded origins, we can all benefit from practicing gratitude in the darkness of fall and in this political moment. A few of the many efforts we’re thankful for here at Unbreaking:
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
While Thanksgiving in the US has some pretty … loaded origins, we can all benefit from practicing gratitude in the darkness of fall and in this political moment. A few of the many efforts we’re thankful for here at Unbreaking:
Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up on our Data Security, Immigration, Medical Research, and Equality at Work work: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 20 — Unbreaking
This week's update covers what the immigration crackdown is doing to our communities, the ongoing exploitation of our personal data, and what's going on with federal workers and medical research fundi...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up on our Data Security, Immigration, Medical Research, and Equality at Work work: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
If you’ve been following the federal layoffs closely, you might be wondering what happened with the lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from firing people during the shutdown.
November 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If you’ve been following the federal layoffs closely, you might be wondering what happened with the lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from firing people during the shutdown.
New analysis has revealed that the Trump administration terminated funding for 383 clinical trials between Jan and Aug 2025, affecting more than 74,000 participants.
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Trump slashed spending on clinical trials. The toll is starting to become clear.
Grants for 383 clinical trials were terminated and the funding disruptions affected more than 74,000 trial participants, according to new research.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
New analysis has revealed that the Trump administration terminated funding for 383 clinical trials between Jan and Aug 2025, affecting more than 74,000 participants.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
The end of the government shutdown brought good news for federal employees: The bill reverses layoffs made during the shutdown, and those who were furloughed or worked without pay should have started receiving backpay this week.
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This week at Unbreaking, November 20 — Unbreaking
This week's update covers what the immigration crackdown is doing to our communities, the ongoing exploitation of our personal data, and what's going on with federal workers and medical research fundi...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The end of the government shutdown brought good news for federal employees: The bill reverses layoffs made during the shutdown, and those who were furloughed or worked without pay should have started receiving backpay this week.
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
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November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The fight against authoritarianism has many fronts. At Unbreaking, we choose to work against information overload and for collective understanding. On our Immigration timeline, we track major and representative events from across the US—now filterable by legal case:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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The federal government continues to roll new datasets into its surveillance operation and use them to target immigrants. We learned this week that ICE’s Mobile Companion app now includes driver’s license data:
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The federal government continues to roll new datasets into its surveillance operation and use them to target immigrants. We learned this week that ICE’s Mobile Companion app now includes driver’s license data:
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
www.404media.co/this-app-let...
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Thanks to the work of @unbreaking.org's website team, we can filter on tags now! The immigration page is starting with tags for court cases, which is how we know that we are following nearly 50 of the things.
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Immigration — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thanks to the work of @unbreaking.org's website team, we can filter on tags now! The immigration page is starting with tags for court cases, which is how we know that we are following nearly 50 of the things.
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...
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We quietly launched a new thing over on @unbreaking.org: letting folks filter our *in-depth* timelines down into the pieces they care about, to help them pull out the threads that are most relevant to them.
This was a real team effort; can’t wait to see more of our pages roll out their own filters.
This was a real team effort; can’t wait to see more of our pages roll out their own filters.
We are working on *lots of things* but last night we soft-launched a change I am psyched about that makes our timelines filterable. Now you can see all of a case's entries on a given timeline in one place:
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November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We quietly launched a new thing over on @unbreaking.org: letting folks filter our *in-depth* timelines down into the pieces they care about, to help them pull out the threads that are most relevant to them.
This was a real team effort; can’t wait to see more of our pages roll out their own filters.
This was a real team effort; can’t wait to see more of our pages roll out their own filters.
This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:
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How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing is live at Unbreaking:
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Earlier this month, @propublica.org published a fascinating (and frankly horrifying) investigation into the Trump administration’s failure to inspect overseas facilities that process food for US consumers.
You can read their report in full here: www.propublica.org/article/fore...
You can read their report in full here: www.propublica.org/article/fore...
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Earlier this month, @propublica.org published a fascinating (and frankly horrifying) investigation into the Trump administration’s failure to inspect overseas facilities that process food for US consumers.
You can read their report in full here: www.propublica.org/article/fore...
You can read their report in full here: www.propublica.org/article/fore...
Last Wednesday marked the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, and Unbreaking will continue to update our resources as its effects become clear. In the meantime, our most recent briefing explores Medicaid and the loss of federal food safety oversight: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 13 — Unbreaking
As of yesterday, the longest-ever shutdown of the federal government has ended. We’ll be updating our timelines and explainers as the implications of this resolution become clear for all the issues we...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Last Wednesday marked the end of the longest government shutdown in US history, and Unbreaking will continue to update our resources as its effects become clear. In the meantime, our most recent briefing explores Medicaid and the loss of federal food safety oversight: unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
Our weekly briefing is out, this one touching on Medicaid but mostly looking at what we’re losing in federal food safety oversight. Spoiler, it is “things that keep our food from making us sick.”
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This week at Unbreaking, November 13 — Unbreaking
Unbreaking is built to be an antidote to information overload. Since we launched, we have been meticulously documenting lawsuits, executive orders, court rulings, countermoves, and other key events.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Our weekly briefing is out, this one touching on Medicaid but mostly looking at what we’re losing in federal food safety oversight. Spoiler, it is “things that keep our food from making us sick.”
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
The biggest news we have on the federal workforce this week relates to a lawsuit we’ve been watching in California. On October 28, the judge in that case indefinitely blocked mass layoffs during the government shutdown:
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
Judge indefinitely halts shutdown layoffs noting human toll
A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely halted thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The biggest news we have on the federal workforce this week relates to a lawsuit we’ve been watching in California. On October 28, the judge in that case indefinitely blocked mass layoffs during the government shutdown:
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...
We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January:
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Medical Research Funding: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We have a new timeline up today on our Medical Research Funding page, documenting the onslaught of political, legal, and bureaucratic attacks on medical research since January:
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition apps are laying the groundwork for a surveillance state.
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
This week at Unbreaking, November 6 — Unbreaking
Unbreaking is built to be an antidote to information overload. Since we launched, we have been meticulously documenting lawsuits, executive orders, court rulings, countermoves, and other key events.
unbreaking.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Our Immigration and Data Security teams worked together this week to understand how immigration-linked data grabs and shoddy facial recognition apps are laying the groundwork for a surveillance state.
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
unbreaking.org/blog/this-we...
We have a new timeline up today on our Food Safety page, documenting how individual events continue to chip away at the personnel, regulations, and oversight mechanisms that make up our food safety systems:
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unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
Food Safety: Timeline — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
We have a new timeline up today on our Food Safety page, documenting how individual events continue to chip away at the personnel, regulations, and oversight mechanisms that make up our food safety systems:
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
unbreaking.org/issues/food-...
The continued government shutdown means that NIH staff remain furloughed, with grant review panels postponed and delays of new and existing grants: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Researchers, Colleges Face Federal Shutdown Impacts
Two weeks into the government shutdown with no resolution in sight, higher ed associations and researchers say the inability of scientists to contact federal agency workers or get new grants approved ...
www.insidehighered.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
The continued government shutdown means that NIH staff remain furloughed, with grant review panels postponed and delays of new and existing grants: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...