Patrick Curran
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Patrick Curran
@_PatrickCurran
DC/VT. 2x Hoya. 2x Jeopardy! champ. Consultant and occasional writer; opinions all my own. Basketball, football, politics, beer, dumb jokes.

👋 DC housing policy Twitter 🏘️🏗️ The Office of Planning released their *draft* Future Land Use Map earlier today. 🗺️: dc2050.dc.gov/pages/draft-fu… The map will be a big part of the city's next Comprehensive Plan rewrite, "DC 2050." What are your thoughts?



So close to a Democrat running and saying “no taxes for anyone” and then immediately arguing the government should spend thousands and thousands of more dollars on xyz program. The Democrats are in a policy creativity race to the bottom.

last night i had a man order, verbatim, “vodka martini with no vermouth AND extra dry, with olives” i assumed i had misheard so i clarified if he said extra dry or extra dirty. he repeated “vodka martini with no vermouth AND extra dry” oh my fucking god


You can only watch ONE group for the rest of your life ... Which one are you choosing?

Bam brought A’ja to the podium after his big game 🥲❤️


Four letters printed in the NYT today. Every single one calls falling birthrates a good thing.

this is in all honesty a very funny tweet

the thing about growing up during the bush iraq war was that every high school in america had a designated kid who was bizarrely well read on global politics, identified as green/libertarian, cited chomsky in casual conversation and only wore bad religion and tom tomorrow tshirts

WAR ON WIPES? @chenderson has introduced a bill that would impose a *15% sales tax* on disposable wipes. (The standard sales tax is 6%.) The revenue would go to help @dcwater pay for sewer upgrades. Her bill would also make exempt bidets from the city's sales tax.

Trump says he's given instructions to cut off all trade with Spain, citing Madrid's announcement that US can't use its bases (even though he says US will use it if it wants)

It would be exciting if Michael B. Jordan won the Oscar but a part of me is bummed that DiCaprio constructed a masterful Buffoon Trilogy across movies with Tarantino, Scorsese, and Anderson and will win zero Oscars for his trouble.
