A news tidbit: This week the D.C. Council will vote on an emergency bill from @cmchenderson.bsky.social that will allow pharmacies to administer the COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription. Because of changes at the federal level, local pharmacies have been requiring a prescription.
Hannah Recht
@hannahrecht.bsky.social
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Data and graphics journalist. Census, health policy, R and open source.
Now: freelancing. Past work for The Washington Post, KFF Health News, Bloomberg News. https://www.hrecht.com/
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It's here: 2024 American Community Survey 1-year summary data! AND the 2025 CPS-ASEC supplement microdata plus the monthly August 2025 CPS release. Big day for data nerds.
The Census Bureau APIs added 7 datasets See the full tracker: www.hrecht.com/census-api-d...
Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
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Tomorrow should be the first major data update since I created the Bluesky bot @censusapitracker.bsky.social - happy American Community Survey Release Eve to all who celebrate.
ðĪ ðĪðĪ will my bot post correctly?? will it fall flat on its face?? we'll find out tomorrow, together ðĪŠ
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It's alive! ð My Census data tracker captured its first real (not test) minor data update yesterday: time frame update to the historical poverty dataset. 2024 is now available.
There have been a couple major data updates (data endpoints added) but this is the first minor! github.com/hrecht/censu...
ð I made a tracker that shows when the Census Bureau adds or removes datasets from their APIs. Dashboard at www.hrecht.com/census-api-d... and follow @censusapitracker.bsky.social for major updates.
I've been wanting to build this for years but now seemed an especially important time to keep track.
Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
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Make sure to read this absolute banger ChatGPT FOIA investigation from KNKX in Washington state if you haven't already www.knkx.org/government/2...
Washington city officials are using ChatGPT for government work
Records show that public servants have used generative AI to write emails to constituents, mayoral letters, policy documents and more.
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Can't wait to FOIA the HHS ChatGPT logs.
New: HHS has told all employees that they should start using ChatGPT, continuing the administration's AI-ification of everything, its trust in tools that hallucinate, and the general sense that getting things right is not important or worth trying to do:
HHS Asks All Employees to Start Using ChatGPT
The agency tells workers "we should all be vigilant against barriers that could slow our progress toward making America healthy again."
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diabolical
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DC: CVS MinuteClinic has the new covid vaccine, appts still available later today, this weekend. Got mine today. I had to attest to eligibility but didn't need proof.
It will be billed as an office visit for the MinuteClinic assessment (probably, NP wasn't 100% sure.) Took about 15 minutes total.
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Thank you! Appreciate the work you're all doing.
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Do you know if they're requiring rx for people over 65 too?
