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@unbreaking.orgThe 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.orgThe 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.
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@unbreaking.orgThe 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.
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@unbreaking.orgThe 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.orgThis 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.orgAnd 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.
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@unbreaking.orgThe 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...
@unbreaking.orgThe 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...
@unbreaking.orgThe 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...
@unbreaking.orgThe 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.orgThis 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.
@unbreaking.orgWe’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.orgAnd 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.orgOur 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.orgThe 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.orgThis 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.orgThis 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).
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@unbreaking.orgAnd 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...