Briefing: Quick updates from Immigration, Food Safety + Medical Research Funding
Quick updates on Immigration, Food Safety, and Medical Research Funding.
Blog
Some updates from the team.
May 22, 2026 May 15, 2026 Briefing: Infectious Disease Control + Data Security
We have two briefings for you this week: Infectious Disease Control & Data Security
May 8, 2026 Briefing: Quick updates on Immigration + Federal Workforce
This week we have quick updates from our Immigration and Equitable Federal Workforce teams.
May 1, 2026 Briefing: Data Security + more
This week we have an in-depth briefing from our Data Security team and updates from Archives & History, Infectious Disease Control, and Trans Healthcare.
April 24, 2026 Briefing: Equitable Federal Workforce + more
Our Immigration, Food Safety, Medicaid, and Medical Research Funding teams all delivered updates this week. Our Equitable Federal Workforce team provides a look back at what’s changed for federal workers since the beginner of the second Trump administration.
April 17, 2026 Briefing: Data Security + more
This week, we have a briefing on Data Security, quick updates on Infectious Disease Control and Archives & History, and a timeline update for Trans Healthcare.
April 10, 2026 Briefing: Quick updates on Immigration + Medical Research + Medicaid
We’re back with project-wide updates and three condensed briefings from our Immigration, Medical Research Funding, and Medicaid teams.
April 1, 2026 Tech Note: Sidenotes
Occasionally we add a feature that’s interesting to people who build on the web, so if you like to wrestle with markup, CSS, and JavaScript, this one’s for you.
March 19, 2026 Briefing: Quick updates on Infectious Disease Control + Data Security + Archives & History
This week, we have quick updates from our Infectious Disease Control, Data Security, and Archives & History teams, and we’ll be back with more after our two-week spring housekeeping break.
March 12, 2026 Briefing: New Medicaid timeline + more
This week, we introduce our new Medicaid timeline, showcase our new topic filters, and post updates from our Immigration, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams.
March 6, 2026 Briefing: Transgender Healthcare + more
This week, we have a focused briefing on Transgender Healthcare and quick updates from our Archives & History, Data Security, and Infectious Disease Control & Prevention teams.
February 27, 2026 Briefing: Quick updates on Immigration + Medical Research + Food Safety
We’re keeping it tight this week, with three condensed briefings from the Immigration, Medical Research Funding, and Food Safety teams.
February 20, 2026 Briefing: Infectious Disease Control + Data Security
This week, our Infectious Disease Control & Prevention team has a big timeline update and a quick briefing to get you up to speed on recent events. We also have an update from our Data Security folks, who are watching key lawsuits and congressional oversight.
February 12, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, February 12
This week, our big update is from Immigration, with special emphasis on community responses.
February 6, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, February 6
This week, we’re launching our new Infectious Disease Control & Prevention page, which tracks the many ways in which the US is making itself more vulnerable to outbreaks and pandemics.
February 3, 2026 Unbreaking: Journalism and the Ethics of Community Care
It could be argued that once you learn the essential tools of journalism — critical thinking, skepticism, research, documentation, meticulousness, stubbornness — they become second nature to you, a skin that you can never take off, no matter how hard you try.
January 30, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, January 30
This week, we have a briefing focused on Medical Research Funding and updates from our Immigration, Data Security, and Federal Workforce teams.
January 22, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, January 22
This week, we’re launching our new Archives & History timeline, which tracks the many ways in which the Trump administration is exerting control over official histories and narratives.
January 16, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, January 16
This week, we have a briefing on Immigration and quick updates from our Data Security, Federal Workforce, and Medical Research Funding teams.
January 8, 2026 This week at Unbreaking, January 8
Our first briefing of 2026 is an unusually short one, but not because things are quiet. Far from it. Domestic and international news is breaking at a breathtaking rate, but our team is focused on what we can uniquely do.
December 19, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, December 19
Our final briefing of 2025 covers updates in immigration, data security, medical research funding, and brand-new material in trans healthcare — it’s an unusually long one, but we found some good news to mix in with the bad.
December 11, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, December 11
This week’s updates focus on the ways federal agencies and Congress are working together to make America sicker and weaken access to healthcare.
December 4, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, December 4
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.
November 20, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, November 20
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.
November 13, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, November 13
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.
November 6, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, November 6
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.
October 30, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, October 30
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.
October 23, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, October 23
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.
October 16, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, October 16
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.
October 10, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, October 10
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.
September 26, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, September 26
We have updates on the Trump administration’s actions — and pushback from across US society — in Immigration, Data Security, and Medical Research Funding.
September 18, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, September 18
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.
September 12, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, September 12
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.
September 5, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, September 5
We’re back after a week away during which the news did not rest, but we did.
August 22, 2025 What is happening with immigration?
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.
August 21, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, August 21
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).
August 14, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, August 14
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.
August 13, 2025 Documenting in public
We’re very grateful to the people behind the 70+ trackers we use to do our work. Now, we’re sharing that list.
August 7, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, August 7
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.
July 31, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, July 31
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.
July 28, 2025 Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adults
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.
July 24, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, July 24
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.
July 17, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, July 17
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.
July 10, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, July 10
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.
July 3, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, July 3
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.
July 1, 2025 Welcome to our neighborhood
My name is Sydette. I’m a technologist, researcher, and writer hailing from Far Rockaway, and a founding member of the Unbreaking collective.
June 27, 2025 This week at Unbreaking, June 27
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.
June 23, 2025 New at Unbreaking
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.
May 19, 2025 Laying the groundwork
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.