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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 6d

And if you want to help document and understand the ongoing attacks on the rights and infrastructures all Americans depend on, please join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/

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How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 6d

We’ll be keeping an eye on what happens next on our Transgender Healthcare page. In the meantime, all our content is free to use and adapt as you see fit as long as you credit Unbreaking. unbreaking.org/license/

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How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 6d

In a win for patient privacy, a federal judge ruled that the subpoena issued to Boston Children’s Hospital about its provision of gender affirming care was way too broad. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 6d

Amidst the other chaos of the government shutdown you might have missed the fact that the House’s version of the appropriations bill bans federal funding for all gender-affirming care, for any patient of any age. transitics.substack.com/p/the-new-ho...

The New House Appropriations Bill Doesn’t Just Target Trans Care, But All LGBTQ+ Americans

Breaking down the potential implications of the worst legislative attack LGBTQ+ Americans have faced in years.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

The NIH abruptly canceled 17 grants after Breitbart News published a “taxpayer watchdog” group’s claim that the grants involved human fetal tissue research, sparking fears of a blanket ban on human fetal research:
www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientists decry NIH pledge to end some human fetal tissue research

Move could signal return to ban on such studies imposed by first Trump administration

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

In California, Democratic lawmakers proposed a $23 billion plan to counter science and medical funding cuts, in essence creating a state version of the NIH and NSF:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

California’s $23 Billion Plan to Restore Federal Cuts to Scientific Research

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Harvard prevailed in their lawsuit against the Trump administration’s grant freezes, though it’s unclear if or when the blocked funds will be released: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Harvard secures win in fight with Trump over federal research funding

A federal judge said the Trump administration "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of over $500 million in frozen grants to UCLA, pushing back on the Trump administration’s use of grant freezes to control “woke ideology” at universities: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Judge Orders N.I.H. to Restore Suspended Research Grants at U.C.L.A.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Despite the ongoing massive cuts, we saw some wins for research at major universities in this update for our Medical Research Funding page:
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Big national newsrooms produce much of the coverage we compile, but in this Data Security update we also leaned on great work from laser-focused teams at @stateline.org, @theintercept.com, and @democracydocket.com 🙏

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

And by “vanishingly rare,” we mean that @brennancenter.org found about thirty (30) noncitizen votes out of 23.5 million:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Noncitizen Voting: The Missing Millions

Contrary to President Trump's claims, noncitizen voting in the 2016 election was exceedingly rare, according to this new analysis of information from local election administrators.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

The DOJ is sharing voter registration data with DHS in an attempt to track down noncitizen voters—despite the fact that noncitizen voting is vanishingly rare:
stateline.org/2025/09/12/d...

DOJ is sharing state voter roll lists with Homeland Security • Stateline

The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of Homeland Security in a search for noncitizens, the Trump administration confirmed.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

The Trump administration sued Maine and Oregon for detailed voter data—the latest tactic in its push to collect such data from states:.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOJ Sues Maine, Oregon in Aggressive Move to Seize State Voter Data

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

The Arizona attorney general limited ICE’s access to a database of US-Mexico wire transfers it had used to identify and target immigrants.
theintercept.com/2025/09/15/i...

Many ICE Agents Lose Ability to Spy on Immigrants’ Payments to Family Back Home

After The Intercept exposed how immigration agents surveil wire transfers, Arizona AG Kris Mayes cut off some of their access.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Last Thursday, a federal judge paused the USDA’s attempt to collect personal data about SNAP (food stamp) recipients in 21 states: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Judge blocks USDA from collecting data about SNAP applicants in 21 states

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

In Data Security, we continue to see the Trump administration attempt to acquire & weaponize ever-larger swathes of personal data, including voting & medical records, financial data, & detailed information on benefits recipients. But states & judges are pushing back.

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Data Security — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

The Arizona attorney general limited ICE’s access to a database of US-Mexico wire transfers it had used to identify and target immigrants.
theintercept.com/2025/09/15/i...

Many ICE Agents Lose Ability to Spy on Immigrants’ Payments to Family Back Home

After The Intercept exposed how immigration agents surveil wire transfers, Arizona AG Kris Mayes cut off some of their access.

theintercept.com

Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Last Thursday, a federal judge paused the USDA’s attempt to collect personal data about SNAP (food stamp) recipients in 21 states: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Judge blocks USDA from collecting data about SNAP applicants in 21 states

A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Appreciation to the folks at @immcouncil.org and @vera.org for their irreplaceable analysis and explainers, and to the data folks at @cato.org for their look at who’s really being targeted in the administration’s immigration raids.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

This week’s update to our Immigration timeline tracks all three of these trends, both in Trump administration actions and in courts across the country, from NYC to Chicago to LA:
unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

3) They are imprisoning detained immigrants in overcrowded, often brutal conditions without the possibility of release on bond:
www.vera.org/news/the-tru...

The Truth About Immigration Detention in the United States

A detained person sits on the floor under a blanket in a locked intake holding area during a 2019 media tour of an immigration detention center in Tacoma,…

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2) They are conducting mass raids that largely target people without criminal records who've been peacefully living and working in the US for years:
www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

65 Percent of People Taken by ICE Had No Convictions, 93 Percent No Violent Convictions

ICE’s deportation agenda is not what is being advertised to the American public. ICE is not interested in prioritizing public safety, yet it constantly pretends that anyone who objects to its tactics ...

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 13d

Many of the Trump administration’s immigration actions this summer fell into three connected categories: 1) They are making hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants “illegal” and therefore deportable:
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/mass-...

Mass Deportation: Analyzing the Trump Administration's Attacks on Immigrants, Democracy, and America - American Immigration Council

The first six months of President Trump’s return to office have marked the most extreme changes to the immigration system in modern U.S. history.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 20d

Our Food Safety page collects the whole story of the Trump administration’s continued attacks on the people, rules, and oversight systems that keep our food supply safe:
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Food Safety — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 20d

Meanwhile, a planned relocation of thousands of USDA employees from Washington, DC, is receiving pushback from legislators and food safety experts. The backlash forced the USDA to extend the plan’s public comment period from August 30 to September 30.
www.thefencepost.com/news/amid-ba...

Amid backlash, USDA extends reorganization comment period

The Trump administration has extended the comment period on its plan to reorganize the Agriculture Department until Sept. 30 after several commenters urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to publ...

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