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@MattofDC
Native Washingtonian.
FACT: DC students do NOT receive in-state tuition at public universities across the country. Instead, they can receive up to $10,000 per year from the DCTAG (DC Tuition Assistance Grant) program to help offset out-of-state tuition costs.
Very DC!
DC is a funny place. One day, you're 21, living in a group house in georgetown. You've got a 40-something year old random roommate and you're not quite sure why he lives there? but he's out of town a lot Fast forward, he's the head of USAID. And the trips suddenly make sense
This isn’t Arlington, VA.
People from Arlington: Arlington is so much better than DC. It's perfect. Arlington in reality:
And for even more education about the DC LGBT+ community check out the DC Policy’s history on Queer places and spaces in DC! dcpolicycenter.org/publications/h…
Tourist revelations 💀
Go the Navy Yard Whole Foods, it’s quiet and calm opposed to the others in DC.
What’s your favorite DC hack? For example, getting off the Metro at Cleveland Park to walk to the National Zoo vs getting off at Woodley Park.
This is me!!!!!
Me: “Let me check out just the first episode of Nobody Wants This” Me six hours later: “What a season”
More than 100,000 Metrorail trips were taken on Tuesday between 7 and 9 a.m., demonstrating a continued strong recovery in our midweek commute hours! So far this year, 92% of our AM rush hour trips have been on time. Thanks for letting us get you to work! #wmata
I’m gonna piss off a few million New Yorkers but I’m sitting here in DC and folks: DC is the best city in the USA and is giving European cities a run for their money. New York is New York. There’s only one. It is more than just a city — it’s … an entire category unto itself.
Taylor Townsend’s runner up speech after playing US Open mixed doubles final with Donald Young “I just hope Donald and I standing here, Frances in the SF, & Coco being defending champion shows people that look like us that it’s possible.” 🥹
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable? Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about…
Adding some peach cobbler to my $40 lunch at the Blacksonian.
Caption this (DC Edition)
Whenever I’m around secret service.
Hey DC, what’s something you do in the city that makes you very mindful, very demure?
We need mandatory civics classes in our country badly. So many citizens have no idea how the federal government works, let alone their local government.
These are the confirmed endorsements for Vice President Kamala Harris as of 7PM ET. I am tracking these as thoroughly and quickly as I can, but they've been coming so fast that it's hard to keep up: President Biden Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton John Kerry Gov. Janet…