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Here: Transit \ urbanism \ equity \ housing \ maps. There: Federal anti-poverty policy communications, messaging, and advocacy in DC.

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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
DC's Independence Day fireworks are scheduled to start at 10:30 and run until about 11:15 pm... @mayorbowser.dc.gov bout to have some strongly worded emails in their inbox Sunday morning from Wards 2 & 6.
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 19/03/2026
Workers who face systemic barriers, wage suppression, and occupational segregation, particularly women and workers of color, all stand to benefit from apprenticeships. Yet these groups remain underrepresented. Find this and more featured in this roundup www.ccdaily.com/2026/03/head...
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Headlines - Community College Daily
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Last weekend at the Wharf, this is what good public open third spaces can look like without cars.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
National Harbor is unwell
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Tajin is the next hot honey, I can just feel it. Get ready for $15 limón y chile sold at Chelsea Market.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Just a reminder that staff assistants on the Hill are still only making like $45,000 a year. After tax: ~$38,500 Assuming you live within a 30 min commute from the Hill, you're rent could be anywhere from $1,800 - $2,400/month. Let's just assume it's $2,000/month for easy math. Stay with me...
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Being back in the suburbs where you grew up and realizing that the concept of a “food desert” is incomprehensible for some people who have always been in well-resourced neighborhoods. 10 full-service grocery stores in a 3 mile stretch.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New developments in local transit accessibility: you can now swipe your touch to pay credit card on a metrobus. This should improve ridership numbers and ultimately increase the total number of riders on system - leading to potential revenue boost in the system www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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You can now pay for D.C. Metro buses with a credit card
The change, already rolled out on the rail system, comes amid a push by Metro to crack down on fare evasion.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Crime is not an inevitability. Poverty is not a given. Policy choices have a very clear and direct impact on communities, and jobs programs and workforce development can be the key to boosting community vitality and safety. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
washingtonpost.com
D.C. lawmaker proposes summer jobs expansion, teen centers, apprenticeships
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has introduced 23 bills, many of which focus on boosting economic opportunity for young people.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The District is hoping to fill the gap where the federal government is falling short -- the Child Tax Credit is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs out there, but the federal program could do better. www.axios.com/local/washin...
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D.C. is creating its own local child tax credit
The new benefit tries to make up for gaps in the federal child credit.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Interesting bind a deeply conservative and governor of Virginia doesn’t want to fail his constituency. So forced into boosting nutrition assistance for people in need dhring federwl shutdown www.wsls.com/news/local/2...
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Virginia launches VENA program offering weekly food benefits amid federal SNAP suspension
Virginia is launching an emergency program to ensure families don’t go hungry when federal SNAP benefits pause due to the government shutdown, becoming the first state in the nation to use state funds...
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
DC rolls back renters' rights by knocking down 2-4 unit buildings out of TOPA entitlement. May seem small, but this likely targets the plethora of English basements and other small unit buildings (think row house split into 3 levels and divided into apts) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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D.C. Council rolls back tenant rights at small rental properties
The action will affect tenant rights for thousands of households in small homes and buildings across D.C.
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Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“The Constitution and federal laws provide robust protections to UC specifically because of the unique risks they face. We are determined to use every legal tool at our disposal to force the admin to respect the law and not send any child to danger.” @nilc.org www.nilc.org/press/nilc-s...
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NILC Sues to Stop Trump’s Unlawful Expulsion of Hundreds of Guatemalan Children
The National Immigration Law Center today filed a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from unlawfully expelling hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children from the United States.
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Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“We will not stand by while the government abandons its commitments to children. We will continue to stand with children and fight unlawful actions by the government that place children in harm’s way.”- Gladis Molina Alt ‪@theyoungcenter.bsky.social‬ www.theyoungcenter.org/press-releas...
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Children’s Advocates Condemn the Failed, Unlawful Removal of Guatemalan Children by the Trump Admin
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from forcibly sending back Guatemalan children held in federal [...]
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Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
“Waking kids from their sleep in the middle of the night to deport them is cruel and unlawful. Any decision regarding UC must prioritize their best interest—deporting them w/o due process or ensuring return to safe conditions falls drastically short of that standard”@wendydcervantes.bsky.social
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Children Thrive Action Network @letkidsthrive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
CTAN is outraged by the Trump Admin's attempt to forcibly remove dozens of immigrant kids over the holiday weekend.Read our statement and our partners' statements below: childrenthriveaction.org/2025/09/chil... @clasp.org
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Children’s Advocates Outraged by Trump Administration’s Attempt to Deport Children in Need of Safety - Children Thrive Action Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACTS:  Melissa Stek, Communications Consultant, melissa@mountgem.com  Tom Salyers, Director of Communications, tsalyers@clasp.org   Washington, DC, September 2, 2025—Me...
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Dude imaginé living in this lil road bubble. Like, love to see that there’s tons of apartments popping up at a relatively high density for this area, but wow, you can’t walk anywhere outside of this trapezoid!!
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Who will tattoo this on me
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
One of the cooler and more creative job postings I've seen!
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Music festival forming at Franklin Park (McPherson Sq) - festival staff says no stage diving or moshing, have surrounded the entire park with staffers preparing for the evening (in the name of crime reduction)
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Dare I say it the DC warped this year looks more legit than the LBC warped. I don’t know… there’s something about a fully paved treeless parking lot of an abandoned asbestos ridden NFL stadium that just screams “warped” that Long Beach can never fully fulfill. DC birthed hardcore for a reason.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Oh so you said you like Turnstile?
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The difference framing and a light edit can make in your pictures.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you told me in 2015 that this is what 10 years later would do for micro mobility access, I’m not sure if I would’ve fully believed you to be honest.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
High speed rail could be the best thing to happen to America and you just don’t know it yet.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Fixing to ride the Brightline, bucket list item down.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Just hit me that there’s a generation of biracial millennials who have a wildly complex political spectrum that wouldn’t have existed pre-1980. There isn’t a fully cohesive agenda for these folks, but I think theres a complicated position for these folks that goes unseen. (Hi its me, i’m the drama)
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I think we are in the middle of a really pivotal moment of hardcore and alternative music culture. #Turnstile @thebaltimorebanner.com
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Enforce tax evasion as well as we enforce metro fare evasion and we could have free public transit for all.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Okay but would you wear this? #carlyraejepsen
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
We are moving into the political prisoner stage: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
axios.com
Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident
"There will likely be more arrests coming," a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said.
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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“We’re 100 days into the era of congestion pricing… The statistics from January into March, both all-in-one and otherwise, are rolling in, and they show a trend that is clear and unmistakable: It’s working.” www.curbed.com/article/100-...
curbed.com
How Well Is Congestion Pricing Doing? Very.
One hundred days in, honking is down; bus speeds are up.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Season 2 ending of Deal or No Deal Island might be one of the best finales in competitive reality history.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
getting absolutely bodied every day by canada was not on my bingo card
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 21/03/2025
BREAKING: President Trump’s latest Executive Order is a direct attack on the Department of Education—and it will harm children, families, and the economy. A statement from Cemeré James, interim executive director of CLASP: www.clasp.org/press-room/p...
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Executive Order on Education Will Harm Children, Families, and the Economy | CLASP
Closing ED will disproportionately harm students of color and children with disabilities, instill fear in immigrant students, and reverse decades of progress in enhancing civil rights protections for ...
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This is why boomers think cities are soulless concrete jungles and inherently bad. This is NYC in 1982:
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RAIL Magazine @railmag.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Nebraska could rejoin regional passenger rail advocacy group under legislative bill
The Midwest Interstate Passenger Rail Compact is made up of appointed government officials from eight member states that advocate for passenger rail projects and funding.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Guys on Love is Blind really showing up to their wedding day without a single drop of conditioner in their hair.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“But where do you get your protein?” It’s an old lie others tell you when you are vegetarian or vegan, but vegan meats nowadays have nearly as much protein as straight up beef, 19g/ 4oz vs. 23g/ 4oz (vegan vs. traditional respectively)
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Current obsession: gamifying grocery shopping at Safeway. After coupons and rewards, this is a 70% savings. And this cart includes 18-pack of pasture raised organic eggs too.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump signed an executive order preventing men blah blah blah it’s unconstitutional you dumbass.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
When Trump says “woke” he says it with a hard R. #jointaddress
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is a manufactured recession because one thing is always true about recessions: there are winners and there are losers. I'll let you guess who the winners are going to be.
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 04/03/2025
Last month, CLASP's Wendy Cervantes and Stephanie Schmit to @vox.com about the intersection of child care and immigration. Their insights, along with CLASP’s research, help answer the tough question: "What if the people caring for American children get deported?" www.vox.com/immigration/...
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The immigration crackdown threatening to break America’s child care system
What happens if the people caring for American children get deported?
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 04/03/2025
DACA recipients are estimated to contribute $420 billion to the GDP & $12.3 billion to Social Security & Medicare over a decade. immigrationforum.org/article/fact...
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Fact Sheet: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
(Versión en español) What is DACA? Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a deferred action policy implemented by the Obama administration in June 2012. It is aimed at protecting qualifying ...
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trying out this new ultimate minimalism phone set up. Trying to preserve my peace 🙃
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“Once you get a seat at the table, you realize people ain’t all that.” — one of many great presidential quotes from Barack Obama.
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Jamie Perez @jamiegp.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Need some company while The Orange One address Congress tomorrow night? These folks might help!
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This is a very very very very very very very very very very very bad idea. Every Econ 101 student learns this in like week one: GDP = C + I + G + NX The big G gone would be like trillions of dollars unaccounted for.
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Nic Martinez @nicmartinezva.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
All of the sudden people are using emojis as bullet points in their professional emails and that’s an AI tell. Use normal boring bullet points if you want to seem more human.
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