DC/VT. 2x Hoya. 2x Jeopardy! champ. Consultant and occasional writer; opinions all my own. Basketball, football, politics, beer, dumb jokes.
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Patrick Curran retweeted
This is such a poorly run program. The goal should be to build a fanbase, not fleece them after a decade of mediocrity (and that's being generous).
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rt 🔐
What was @Scott_Colom cooking that Mississippi whites liked so much?
Whites with a college degree moved 17 points left
Whites without a college degree moved 20 points left
White men moved 21 points left
White women 18 points left
Whites 18-29 42 points left
via @nytimes
Patrick Curran retweeted
New WOKE Big East:
St. John’s Blue Wave
Providence College Imams
DePolyamorous Blue Demons
Villanovx Wildcats
Seton Hall Bi-rates
Creighton BlueHairedJays
Georgetown
Patrick Curran retweeted
This is the thing. Washingtonians should be genuinely outraged by the refusal of our political leaders to distance themselves from this guy. The facts of his corruption trial are not in dispute. He took bags of cash and corrupted the programs they all support.
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Darliene Graham loses a buy game to Annie Andrews.
The epitome of brutality.
Patrick Curran retweeted
Spurs legend Tim Duncan was spotted standing in line with other voters in San Antonio for the 2026 midterm elections.
(Via @JeffGSpursZone )
Patrick Curran retweeted
A plan to spruce up East Potomac while keeping it affordable had been in place for years; the contract was granted during Trump’s first term! He’s blown that up, and what he’s now doing is much more opaque. There’s no certainty that the end result will be affordable.
Patrick Curran retweeted
The hero we need
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The New York TImes: What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about?
Zohran Mamdani: The role of the private market in housing construction.
Private developers are essentially bragging about still being able to do market-rate development in districts represented by democratic socialists therealdeal.com/new-york/202…
Patrick Curran retweeted
He got it from his mama.
Bear 89, aka Backpack, is the 2026 Fat Bear Week champ. Turns out hefty runs in the family.
His mom, Holly the Duchess of Density, won in 2019. She carried him on her back as a cub and helped him survive a serious leg injury. Now her little Backpack has a crown of his own. 👑
ALT An offensively large brown bear with massive girth and several fat rolls.
Patrick Curran retweeted
This is baby Backpack, in case you needed another reason to root for the Lord of Lard, Earl of Girth and Commander in Beef. 👑
ALT Photo of baby Backpack riding on his mom’s (Holly) back. Photo by NPS
ALT Photo of yearling Backpack in 2007 with a hurt foot by Ranger Jeanne
He got it from his mama.
Bear 89, aka Backpack, is the 2026 Fat Bear Week champ. Turns out hefty runs in the family.
His mom, Holly the Duchess of Density, won in 2019. She carried him on her back as a cub and helped him survive a serious leg injury. Now her little Backpack has a crown of his own. 👑
ALT An offensively large brown bear with massive girth and several fat rolls.
Patrick Curran retweeted
Hard to overstate how big a failure DOGE was. The government slashed its workforce without meaningfully shrinking the government’s overall footprint. So taxpayers got a less capable bureaucracy while spending billions paying people not to work. It was mostly performance art.
The cost of DOGE: The Trump administration paid federal employees $9.5 billion not to work during 2025, GAO finds nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/po…
Patrick Curran retweeted
Nearly every day toward the end of my tenure at The Washington Post, someone would complain to me about Jeff Bezos' changes. His decimation of the local news team. His abandonment of DC sports coverage. The shriveled Bezos opinion page, with the ideological diversity of a doorknob.
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The Washington Sun will not be perfect. We will write stories that you find annoying, dumb, or misinformed. I will make mistakes (& tell me if I do - [email protected]!). But at a time where investments in reporting are evaporating, I'm so excited The Sun is hiring real journalists doing real reporting.
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Patrick Curran retweeted
It’s official: MacArthur High School in Ward 3 is no more. It’s now John Thompson High School, after the famed Georgetown basketball coach and D.C. native. (And the mascot has similarly changed for the better: from the mammoth to the jaguar.)
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The perfectly ripe summer tomato sandwich is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
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.@brianschatz today on the Senate floor w some heat:
"There were Democrats, people who consider themselves Democratic strategists, who said out loud that Democrats were walking into a trap because USAID doesn't poll well. I don't care if it polls well. I am not here to have a pollster tell me that I shouldn't care that kids are getting malaria. I am not here to get talked out of the United States being the good guys, because health care polls higher, because the cost of gasoline pulls higher. I'm not deciding what to put into a 30-second spot. I'm deciding how to use the power given to me by the people of the state of Hawai‘i. And I think they care about whether people die unnecessarily because of the stupidity of this Congress.