Nic Martinez
@nicmartinezva.bsky.social
Here: Transit \ urbanism \ equity \ housing \ maps.
There: Federal anti-poverty policy communications, messaging, and advocacy in DC.
There: Federal anti-poverty policy communications, messaging, and advocacy in DC.
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.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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.
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
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www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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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November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
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...
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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November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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...
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.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
www.axios.com/local/washin...
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...
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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November 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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...
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...
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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October 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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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“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...
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.
www.nilc.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“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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“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
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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 [...]
www.theyoungcenter.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“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...
www.theyoungcenter.org/press-releas...
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“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
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“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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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
@clasp.org
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...
childrenthriveaction.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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
@clasp.org
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!!
August 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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!!
Who will tattoo this on me
August 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Who will tattoo this on me
One of the cooler and more creative job postings I've seen!
August 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One of the cooler and more creative job postings I've seen!
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)
August 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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)
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.
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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.
Oh so you said you like Turnstile?
July 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Oh so you said you like Turnstile?
The difference framing and a light edit can make in your pictures.
July 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The difference framing and a light edit can make in your pictures.
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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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.
High speed rail could be the best thing to happen to America and you just don’t know it yet.
May 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
High speed rail could be the best thing to happen to America and you just don’t know it yet.
Fixing to ride the Brightline, bucket list item down.
May 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fixing to ride the Brightline, bucket list item down.
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)
May 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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)
I think we are in the middle of a really pivotal moment of hardcore and alternative music culture. #Turnstile @thebaltimorebanner.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I think we are in the middle of a really pivotal moment of hardcore and alternative music culture. #Turnstile @thebaltimorebanner.com
Enforce tax evasion as well as we enforce metro fare evasion and we could have free public transit for all.
May 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Enforce tax evasion as well as we enforce metro fare evasion and we could have free public transit for all.
Okay but would you wear this? #carlyraejepsen
May 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Okay but would you wear this? #carlyraejepsen
We are moving into the political prisoner stage: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
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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May 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We are moving into the political prisoner stage: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...