Patrick Hruby

Patrick Hruby

@patrickhruby.bsky.social

Deputy Editor, Washingtonian | Alum and bylines, many places | To pitch me: phruby@washingtonian.com | To reach me: www.patrickhruby.net

1,502 Followers 1,862 Following 1,410 Posts Joined Mar 2025
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Pentagon bars press photographers over ‘unflattering’ Hegseth photos Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s staff took issue with photos taken in a rare briefing last week and decided to shut out press photographers from two subsequent news conferences.

This implies that there are other, flattering photos. Ok buddy!!!

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Nobody has ever purchased gas there various stock image and broadcast news companies pay them a fee to keep the prices high

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the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

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1 day ago

??? why is RFK Jr. going to the doctor for a surgery when he could simply eat a variety of weird meats at his injury

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Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

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BTW every single answer to that question came true after the W Bush regime invasion

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FFS, we discussed this very issue in my *1997* contemporary US foreign policy class at Georgetown—right after the unit on “why didn’t the US depose Saddam in Gulf War I?”

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Conan O'Brien in his "the year 2000" sketch

Donald Trump will kill the supreme leader of Iran, and then he will get bored and try to pretend he didn't

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Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

This is a real banger, do yourself a favor and read it

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The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

Deeply grim stuff

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Before Citizens United, billionaires donated 0.3% of campaign financing. In the last election, 300 billionaires & their families — 0.0001% of America's population — provided 19%.

nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

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WARFIGHTER MINDSET

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It was always a political appointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS News, except ideologically. Her appointment as Editor-in-Chief thus required conflict with the newsroom. Scott Macfarlane, I think, saw all of this, and drew the obvious conculsions.

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A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

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No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About? Contrary to what he would have you believe, President Bush’s plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do with such high-minded goals as liberating the Iraqi people or saving the world from terrorism. His ...

No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?

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Stunning ignorance in this administration?!?

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It’s like the whole country gave Trump credit for 2019’s economy the same way it gave him credit for being good at business, even though in both cases he was spending down someone else’s pile. A nation of marks, even our banker technocrats

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yeah, this is awful. for one, women's & Olympic sports won't and wouldn't be "saved" by anything in this bill; its only impact would be widening the income gap between ultra-rich programs and everybody else even further.

This bill is the product of Trump's people! Why is any Democrat backing it!?

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Eternally dumbfounding to me that Republican voters happily guzzle lies like this and then demand more

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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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3 days ago

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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4 days ago

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

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I’m hardly the first person to make this observation, but it is astonishing to me that the American public considers the GOP to be the Good At Economy And Defense Party—at least given every single event of my entire lifetime

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"We'll blow up some people and buildings and then everything will go the way we want" was also Osama bin Laden's theory and it didn't work out for him either. It hasn't worked out for anybody ever.

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White House posts bombing videos interspersed with MLB, NFL highlights The clips mix videos of explosions with home runs hit by former sluggers and violent hits in pro and college football games.

Unserious voters, unserious leaders, unserious country. Spoiled failsons.

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Are you talking to republicans

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Chlorine dioxide is an industrial bleach for lumber and freaks like RFK give autistic kids enemas with it. Kids die from the practice. These people just want autistic kids dead.

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