Some updates from the team.
This week, we’re looking at the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to seize, share, and weaponize US residents’ data and to simultaneously weaken its own data security practices and rules. We’re also tracking the latest efforts to circumvent expert judgement and control of medical research funding.
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 funding.
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 cover.
The government shutdown is officially the longest on record, but things are far from quiet. This week, our team has a major update on the intersection between data security and immigration. In addition, we have two smaller updates.
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.
We caught up on what’s been happening in data security, immigration, and medical research funding, along with what’s happened in the federal workforce since the government shutdown began October 1.
It’s a knowledge consolidation week here, as we watch the effects of Medicaid cuts ripple across US hospitals and threaten long-term care facilities.
We have updates on the Trump administration’s actions — and pushback from across US society — in Immigration, Data Security, Medical Research Funding, and Equality at Work.
We have updates on the Trump administration’s actions — and pushback from across US society — in Immigration, Data Security, and Medical Research Funding.
We have updates on two issues: In Medicaid, it’s looking like states will struggle to implement new work-reporting requirements mandated by the budget reconciliation bill, with predictably bad consequences. And after waves of layoffs affecting food safety workers, the administration has also cancelled FDA and USDA union contracts, putting yet more pressure on our already strained food safety system.
This week we’re tracking a number of (hopefully, temporary) wins for the administration in their ongoing detention efforts, plus how the consequences of the massive cuts to the federal workforce are now becoming plain.
We’re back after a week away during which the news did not rest, but we did.
We have a new issue page up today, looking at the multi-pronged assault on both immigrants to the United States and the immigration system itself.
The administration’s massive cuts to the federal government harm both the workers left without jobs as well as everyone who depends on government services (which is to say, all of us).
We’re looking closely at two issues this week — the ongoing efforts to threaten the job security of federal workers, and ramped-up data sharing between federal agencies and tech companies.
We’re very grateful to the people behind the 70+ trackers we use to do our work. Now, we’re sharing that list.
This week, we’re looking at how federal layoffs are showing up in the jobs data; a new analysis of the massive cuts to Medicaid; pushback in response to the trans healthcare bans; and the ongoing uncertainty in medical research funding.
The administration continues to cut staff across the federal government, including at the EPA, where hundreds of scientists have been laid off from the agency’s vital independent research arm.
In building out our Medicaid explainer, we uncovered a lot of actual complexity and plenty of plainly inaccurate information about who’s enrolled in Medicaid — and what it means to take away their healthcare coverage.
We’re continuing to track the consequences of the administration’s megabill, as well as renewed layoffs across the federal government in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this month.
This week we have a new explainer on data security, plus the latest on trans healthcare, food safety, equality at work, medical research funding, and Medicaid.
The Trump megabill has passed, and the top line outcome of the bill is grim: it’s expected to push 17 million people out of healthcare coverage.
It’s very likely that some version of Trump’s budget bill will pass soon and that millions of people will lose healthcare as a result.
My name is Sydette. I’m a technologist, researcher, and writer hailing from Far Rockaway, and a founding member of the Unbreaking collective.
In a rare bright moment since we started Unbreaking, this week we have some actually encouraging news to share: many of the cruelest provisions in the Trump administration’s budget megabill were ruled out this week by the Senate parliamentarian.
Some grounding understanding on many of the issues we’re tracking so far, and the things we’re paying attention to in the week ahead.
Mapping the damage and its human costs — as well as the pushback and resilience work already underway — is critical groundwork for building and retaining political agency.