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This week we have 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.

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

This week we have 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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unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. Here’s how to join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

This week we have 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.

unbreaking.orgTransgender Healthcare: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Trans Healthcare team published 9 events, including more hospitals forced to capitulate on gender-affirming care for trans teens. unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

unbreaking.orgArchives & History — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

And the Archives & History team added 3 entries this week. Smithsonian funding is under attack. Again. Still. unbreaking.org/issues/archi...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

This week we have 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.

unbreaking.orgData Security — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Data Security team added 30 entries to the timeline, including yet more election data meddling, disastrous security breaches, and Flock backlash in Congress. unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

unbreaking.orgInfectious Disease Control & Prevention — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Infectious Disease Control team added 30 timeline items in this update. We can fit so many diseases in this thing. We regret that it is necessary to do so. 😓 unbreaking.org/issues/infec...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgMedicaid: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Medicaid team added 4 events, focused on the ongoing scramble to prevent—or brace for—destructive Medicaid changes scheduled to roll out in January. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. This is a great time to start contributing! Here’s how: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgMedical Research Funding: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Medical Research Funding team added 6 events, and it’s mostly more of the unpleasant same: policy fights about who gets to decide how to spend research money. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

unbreaking.orgFood Safety: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Food Safety team added 5 entries. This summer’s cyclospora outbreak is officially over, but the 2026 update to USDA's Prevention, Response & Research Action Plan sure has a lot more “will continue to,” “will consider,” and “is interested in” than you might expect. unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgImmigration — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Immigration team added 43 items, including a court ruling requiring ICE to address “squalid and degrading” detention conditions. Also grim: ICE held a man in detention for 11 days before allowing surgery to remove the bullet they put in his back. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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.

The Archives & History team added 2 events in this week’s update, including a new lawsuit to force the administration to fulfill its legal obligation to publish the text of signed international agreements. www.citizensforethics.org/legal-action...

citizensforethics.orgCREW, Lawfare sue the Department of State for violating the Case Act - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonCREW, Lawfare sued the Department of State for violating the Case Act by failing to make international agreements publicly available.

unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

And now we head into our quarterly break! For the next two weeks, Unbreaking will be resting, catching up on backlog, and training new volunteers. If you want to join us as a researcher, writer, or editor, this is a great time to do it! We’ll be back on October 9. unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Infectious Disease Control team added 11 items in this update. Like many people who care about public health, we’re keeping eyes on the (increasingly) deadly measles outbreak in Pennsylvania. abcnews.com/US/measles-r...

abcnews.com4 measles-related deaths reported in US for 1st time since 1992The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed two additional measles-related deaths on Tuesday.

nytimes.comTrans Migrants in ICE Detention Are Losing Their Rights and Medical CareU.S. officials have sometimes eliminated access to gender-related treatment and dissolved measures meant to shield transgender detainees from harassment.

The Trans Healthcare team published 6 timeline events, some of which overlap with Immigration and Data Security. We’ve known for a while that ICE denies health care to detainees; now we know they are forcibly detransitioning trans immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/n...

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npr.orgThe Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midtermsThe Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

The Data Security team added 23 timeline entries. The Supreme Court has saved mail-in voting from Trump administration interference…at least for the midterms. www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

And our Food Safety team added 3 entries to the timeline, including reports that earlier this year, Congress defunded or hollowed out nearly all the USDA’s research on cyclospora, the parasite that left us ill and suspicious of fresh produce this summer.🤢 unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

unbreaking.orgFood Safety: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. If you’d like to know more: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

The Medical Research Funding team added 6 timeline entries, and one is a particularly nasty deal to funnel billions of dollars in NIH funding to the Department of Defense. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

unbreaking.orgMedical Research Funding: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

unbreaking.orgMedicaid: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

Our Medicaid team added 3 entries to the timeline, highlighting a new KFF analysis showing that hospitals in at least 37 states will see major payment losses—up to $7.4 billion in California alone—because of last year’s budget reconciliation law. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgImmigration — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

This Immigration update added 23 timeline events, including several related to targeting protesters and dissenters, a lot of court activity, and the death by suicide of twenty-year-old college student Pierre Damas Bel, after ICE forced him to wear an ankle monitor. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

And our Archives & History team added 2 entries to the timeline, including the publication of a bizarre, anonymously authored Census Bureau report on immigrant voter fraud. unbreaking.org/issues/archi...

unbreaking.orgArchives & History — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

unbreaking.orgLicense — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

We invite people to republish, remix, and adapt our content. If you make good use of it, let us know: unbreaking.org/license/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

We’ve also got a major website improvement on that Data Security page: topic tags, hallelujah. You can now filter the massive timeline to show thematically grouped entries. So if for some reason you wanted to examine all the items about election data... unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

unbreaking.orgData Security — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

unbreaking.orgInfectious Disease Control & Prevention — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Infectious Disease Control team added 13 timeline entries, many focused on vaccines: We did get approvals for new COVID shots, but the administration is working hard on multiple fronts to make vaccination less accessible. unbreaking.org/issues/infec...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgData Security — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

Our Data Security update added 30 timeline events, with a lot of coverage on recent attempts to block voting by mail and consolidate Americans’ private data. We also saw some anti-Flock action from unexpected quarters (good morning…Governor Abbott?). unbreaking.org/issues/data-...

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

And our Food Safety team added 2 entries to the timeline, both concerning the FDA: The agency has a new nominee for commissioner—Dr. Heidi Overton—and is still struggling to catch up with Cyclospora. unbreaking.org/issues/food-...

unbreaking.orgFood Safety: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

unbreaking.orgHow to help — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. Here’s how to join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

unbreaking.orgUnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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).

unbreaking.orgImmigration — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

Our Immigration update added 26 timeline events, including increases in third-country removals and ongoing fallout from the Supreme Court’s Mullin v. Doe decision regarding temporary protected status. unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

unbreaking.orgMedical Research Funding: Timeline — UnbreakingDocumenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

The Medical Research Funding team added 4 timeline entries, highlighting recent NIH policy changes that appear tailor-made to enable partisan political manipulation of grant funding. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

home.treasury.govFinCEN Permanently Ends Beneficial Ownership Reporting Requirements for Millions of Small Business OwnersWill 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 …

26 Aug

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...

In our last update, we covered the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation’s (ACHP) vote to revise Section 106, which requires the federal government to seek public input about construction and development on historic sites. 4/5 www.npr.org/2026/07/23/n...

npr.orgTrump allies vote to weaken protections for historic sites — not just in D.C.A council packed with Trump appointees wants to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.

savingplaces.orgSection 106 Under Threat | National Trust for Historic PreservationThe Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is advancing changes to the Section 106 process of the National Historic Preservation Act. If adopted, these rules would eliminate public participation in...

26 Aug

The ACHP has submitted these changes for review by local, state, and tribal governments—which means now is the opportunity to take action! Check out this guide from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for steps you can take to protect historic sites. 5/5 savingplaces.org/section106

This will (self-evidently) make it easier to evade responsibility for shell companies and hide financial crimes like money laundering. We probably don't need to tell you who benefits from that. 2/5 www.gao.gov/products/gao...

gao.govU.S. GAO - Corporate Transparency: Treasury Should Address Gaps in Ownership Information Resulting from Expanded ExemptionsU.S. companies aren't usually required to disclose the identities of people who own them. This lack of transparency can be attractive to criminals...

aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

26 Aug

In better news, researchers published an archive of USAID program evaluations, which were taken offline when the administration shut down the agency. These reports contain valuable reports on the effectiveness of (what was) the world’s largest foreign aid system. 3/5 www.aiddata.org/blog/before-...

publichealth.jhu.eduWhat Does the Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines Say? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthThe Trump administration’s guidance calls for reducing the number of routine immunizations for children and separated measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.

25 Aug

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...

The order also pushes for splitting the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots. That will require more visits, making doctors’ and parents’ lives worse. But—oops—separate shots do not currently exist in the US, and manufacturers have little interest in producing them. 3/4 www.statnews.com/2026/08/11/h...

statnews.comTrump is counting on the health care industry to remake vaccines. It’s pushing back insteadTrump wants to change how American kids are vaccinated, but doctors and the pharma industry aren't on board.