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Thanks @730dc.bsky.social for the talking to the campaign!
Read more about why I'm running, how I started organizing, and how District Delicious informs the way I think about the platform of elected office: medium.com/seventhirty-...
Read more about why I'm running, how I started organizing, and how District Delicious informs the way I think about the platform of elected office: medium.com/seventhirty-...
Exclusive: Q&A with Aparna Raj, the Newest Candidate for Ward 1 Councilmember
The candidate centers housing,
medium.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thanks @730dc.bsky.social for the talking to the campaign!
Read more about why I'm running, how I started organizing, and how District Delicious informs the way I think about the platform of elected office: medium.com/seventhirty-...
Read more about why I'm running, how I started organizing, and how District Delicious informs the way I think about the platform of elected office: medium.com/seventhirty-...
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There's a lot of misinformation and lies swirling around about D.C. and Trump's attempts to take over the city.
What questions do you have? What do you want clarified? Let us know, and we'll do our best to answer them in our newsletter on Thursday. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
What questions do you have? What do you want clarified? Let us know, and we'll do our best to answer them in our newsletter on Thursday. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
Trump takes over MPD and deploys the National Guard
City leaders have called the move a "manufactured intrusion on local authority."
51st.news
August 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
There's a lot of misinformation and lies swirling around about D.C. and Trump's attempts to take over the city.
What questions do you have? What do you want clarified? Let us know, and we'll do our best to answer them in our newsletter on Thursday. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
What questions do you have? What do you want clarified? Let us know, and we'll do our best to answer them in our newsletter on Thursday. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...
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Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
Three days remain to hit the goal in our campaign to hire @maustermuhle.bsky.social full-time.
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
We know there's a ways to go, but with less than half left to raise...we could reach it easy peasy if each person who donated asked one friend to give too. givebutter.com/SsQ8CG
Time to Grow The 51st
Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
givebutter.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
- person who reposts this post
- new follower @51st.news ws gets
- new follower @maustermuhle.bsky.social gets
- new follower @christurdisani.bsky.social gets
- new follower I get
And tag/DM me your donation = I'll match it 1:1.
We're excited to announce those who are tabling at this year's 730 Day event on Sunday, August 3.
They include:
The TraRon Center
First Shift Justice Project
The DC Girls' Coalition
Mt. Pleasant Artists Collective
Artist and illustrator Sarah Shively
RSVP here: forms.gle/1Vfqr2aVtqbU...
They include:
The TraRon Center
First Shift Justice Project
The DC Girls' Coalition
Mt. Pleasant Artists Collective
Artist and illustrator Sarah Shively
RSVP here: forms.gle/1Vfqr2aVtqbU...
July 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We're excited to announce those who are tabling at this year's 730 Day event on Sunday, August 3.
They include:
The TraRon Center
First Shift Justice Project
The DC Girls' Coalition
Mt. Pleasant Artists Collective
Artist and illustrator Sarah Shively
RSVP here: forms.gle/1Vfqr2aVtqbU...
They include:
The TraRon Center
First Shift Justice Project
The DC Girls' Coalition
Mt. Pleasant Artists Collective
Artist and illustrator Sarah Shively
RSVP here: forms.gle/1Vfqr2aVtqbU...
Join us in celebrating the anniversary of your newsletter’s favorite newsletter! We’ll be hanging at Metrobar on Sunday, August 3 from 1pm to 4 pm in honor of 730Day. Bring a pal or meet one there!
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RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/14vp...
July 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Join us in celebrating the anniversary of your newsletter’s favorite newsletter! We’ll be hanging at Metrobar on Sunday, August 3 from 1pm to 4 pm in honor of 730Day. Bring a pal or meet one there!
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Don’t miss out on 730DC’s biggest bash of the year. Expect more details soon! Follow to stay in the know, and be sure to sign up here:
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July 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Don’t miss out on 730DC’s biggest bash of the year. Expect more details soon! Follow to stay in the know, and be sure to sign up here:
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@730dc.bsky.social thank you for the mention!!
If y'all are pissed at the state of things, come rock out with us while supporting the NIH!
More details @nihvigils.bsky.social
If y'all are pissed at the state of things, come rock out with us while supporting the NIH!
More details @nihvigils.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@730dc.bsky.social thank you for the mention!!
If y'all are pissed at the state of things, come rock out with us while supporting the NIH!
More details @nihvigils.bsky.social
If y'all are pissed at the state of things, come rock out with us while supporting the NIH!
More details @nihvigils.bsky.social
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Knew Gary Z would crush this for @730dc.bsky.social as soon as I read this sentence: "Endlings are really best enjoyed as a post-apocalyptic lounge act: house-band for a rebel speakeasy, or perhaps the half-time show at the Thunderdome."
medium.com/seventhirty-...
medium.com/seventhirty-...
Anthems at the End of The World
As a right-wing regime returns to destroy Washington, Endlings have reemerged to steel locals for the war raging outside our bunkers.
medium.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Knew Gary Z would crush this for @730dc.bsky.social as soon as I read this sentence: "Endlings are really best enjoyed as a post-apocalyptic lounge act: house-band for a rebel speakeasy, or perhaps the half-time show at the Thunderdome."
medium.com/seventhirty-...
medium.com/seventhirty-...
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Shout out to @730dc.bsky.social for featuring my latest story today @wcp.bsky.social about chronic trash and flooding in one DC neighborhood - plus my essay for 730DC last year on the Kennedy Center rainbow lights! buff.ly/N76d3hH
April 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Shout out to @730dc.bsky.social for featuring my latest story today @wcp.bsky.social about chronic trash and flooding in one DC neighborhood - plus my essay for 730DC last year on the Kennedy Center rainbow lights! buff.ly/N76d3hH
Tired of talking to your houseplants and pretending your cat is your coworker? Craving actual human interaction and some decent coffee that isn’t brewed in your kitchen?
Hang with the crew behind 730DC on Friday, April 25 for chill coworking at Doubles. Bit.ly/730coworking
Hang with the crew behind 730DC on Friday, April 25 for chill coworking at Doubles. Bit.ly/730coworking
April 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tired of talking to your houseplants and pretending your cat is your coworker? Craving actual human interaction and some decent coffee that isn’t brewed in your kitchen?
Hang with the crew behind 730DC on Friday, April 25 for chill coworking at Doubles. Bit.ly/730coworking
Hang with the crew behind 730DC on Friday, April 25 for chill coworking at Doubles. Bit.ly/730coworking
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Thanks @730dc.bsky.social for sharing my latest story @wcp.bsky.social about staft abuse of DC youth in detention.
I feel lucky to live in the District where we can keep supporting local reporting even when national news is so demanding, too, esp rn.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7616...
I feel lucky to live in the District where we can keep supporting local reporting even when national news is so demanding, too, esp rn.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7616...
April 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Thanks @730dc.bsky.social for sharing my latest story @wcp.bsky.social about staft abuse of DC youth in detention.
I feel lucky to live in the District where we can keep supporting local reporting even when national news is so demanding, too, esp rn.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7616...
I feel lucky to live in the District where we can keep supporting local reporting even when national news is so demanding, too, esp rn.
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7616...
Sick of working from home in your PJs? Need some human connection? Join us for a coworking day at Doubles coffee on Friday, April 25 from 9 am - 12 pm.
RSVP here: bit.ly/730coworking
RSVP here: bit.ly/730coworking
April 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Sick of working from home in your PJs? Need some human connection? Join us for a coworking day at Doubles coffee on Friday, April 25 from 9 am - 12 pm.
RSVP here: bit.ly/730coworking
RSVP here: bit.ly/730coworking
In a Q&A with reporter J.M. Amoroso, climate activist Mike Tidwell discusses his book, "The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue," and how "everyone in this neighborhood has lost a big tree." The neighborhood referred to is Takoma Park.
Find the full conversation on 730DC's blog: medium.com/seventhirty-...
Find the full conversation on 730DC's blog: medium.com/seventhirty-...
March 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In a Q&A with reporter J.M. Amoroso, climate activist Mike Tidwell discusses his book, "The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue," and how "everyone in this neighborhood has lost a big tree." The neighborhood referred to is Takoma Park.
Find the full conversation on 730DC's blog: medium.com/seventhirty-...
Find the full conversation on 730DC's blog: medium.com/seventhirty-...
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Thank you @730dc.bsky.social for sharing my @wcp.bsky.social reporting on the $1.2 million budget cuts Trump is forcing on DC public libraries by ending the federal agency IMLS.
Today, those federal workers expect to be fired.
Read more here:
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7607...
Today, those federal workers expect to be fired.
Read more here:
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7607...
March 24, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Thank you @730dc.bsky.social for sharing my @wcp.bsky.social reporting on the $1.2 million budget cuts Trump is forcing on DC public libraries by ending the federal agency IMLS.
Today, those federal workers expect to be fired.
Read more here:
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7607...
Today, those federal workers expect to be fired.
Read more here:
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7607...
come for the shitpost, stay for the compost
On my way to the DPR compost co-op I belong to, I opened today's @730dc.bsky.social for the "Democracy dies in markets" subject line (🤌🏼) and stayed for the food waste info. It was super easy to find and use the Marie Reed drop-off bin! (if you have a smartphone) zerowaste.dc.gov/foodwastedro...
March 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
come for the shitpost, stay for the compost
Thanks to @washingtonian.bsky.social for rounding up these offers — linked in today's 730DC newsletter.
Head here for more deals and discounts for current and former federal workers and contractors: www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/19/d...
Head here for more deals and discounts for current and former federal workers and contractors: www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/19/d...
February 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thanks to @washingtonian.bsky.social for rounding up these offers — linked in today's 730DC newsletter.
Head here for more deals and discounts for current and former federal workers and contractors: www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/19/d...
Head here for more deals and discounts for current and former federal workers and contractors: www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/19/d...
If any of these missed connections spark your interest, our email is hello at 730dc dot com. Be sure to add the title in the subject line. ❤️
February 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If any of these missed connections spark your interest, our email is hello at 730dc dot com. Be sure to add the title in the subject line. ❤️
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s/o @730dc.bsky.social today: “Having just one grocery store with that many people assumes that folk can have a car to drive to get to groceries … or take safe public transportation. [...] each factor can inhibit people’s ability to access food safely” www.washingtoninformer.com/food-deserts...
Food Deserts Affect Health in Wards 7 and 8; Efforts Increase Food Security in Communities
Discover the impact of food deserts in Washington, D.C.'s predominantly African American wards, and learn about efforts to improve food access and health outcomes.
www.washingtoninformer.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
s/o @730dc.bsky.social today: “Having just one grocery store with that many people assumes that folk can have a car to drive to get to groceries … or take safe public transportation. [...] each factor can inhibit people’s ability to access food safely” www.washingtoninformer.com/food-deserts...
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Because we could all use a laugh, we're bringing back overheards. Send us what you've overheard in D.C. at overheards@51st.news. Make sure to share where you heard it, who said it, and a little context!
February 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Because we could all use a laugh, we're bringing back overheards. Send us what you've overheard in D.C. at overheards@51st.news. Make sure to share where you heard it, who said it, and a little context!
February 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Is dating in DC as bad as some say? 730DC wants to know your experience. Find our survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Is dating in DC as bad as some say? 730DC wants to know your experience. Find our survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Let's get personal! Submit your missed connection to 730DC.
Deadline: Sunday, February 16.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: Sunday, February 16.
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February 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Let's get personal! Submit your missed connection to 730DC.
Deadline: Sunday, February 16.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Deadline: Sunday, February 16.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tell us the truth (anonymously) about dating in DC by filling out our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Tell us the truth (anonymously) about dating in DC by filling out our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
What would you like to ask our newsletter readers about dating, relationships, finding love, etc. in DC?
Reply here — or email us, hello at 730dc.com — and we might include your question in an upcoming survey!
Reply here — or email us, hello at 730dc.com — and we might include your question in an upcoming survey!
February 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What would you like to ask our newsletter readers about dating, relationships, finding love, etc. in DC?
Reply here — or email us, hello at 730dc.com — and we might include your question in an upcoming survey!
Reply here — or email us, hello at 730dc.com — and we might include your question in an upcoming survey!
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We’re keeping our eyes on DCA today. We’ll be relying on our local colleagues at outlets like the Washington Post, Axios DC, and City Cast for updates. We encourage you to do the same!
January 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We’re keeping our eyes on DCA today. We’ll be relying on our local colleagues at outlets like the Washington Post, Axios DC, and City Cast for updates. We encourage you to do the same!