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

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TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den?

MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes

TRUMP: surely they ate him

MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't

TRUMP: Unbelievable

21.11.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3274    πŸ” 529    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

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He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

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Over a month after publication our @bmj.com Investigation into the Q-collar is still attracting reader interest. The second most read article in the journal.

15,000+ reads in the first month. 2500+ last weekend.

People want transparency in sports science and the FDA.

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

18.11.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

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Who is this for

21.11.2025 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ethnic cleansing

21.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Unless Congress acts, the presidency will acquire a second, hidden budget: slush funds drawn from corporations and foreign governments with no external oversight. The power of the purse anchors Congress’s independence, keeping the legislature from becoming a spectator to executive power."

21.11.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 73    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

This is conspiracy theory stuff. China doesn’t need to spy on baby monitors to know what Americans are doing. They can just open Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or one of the many apps that Americans use to share the kind of information that two generations ago couldn’t be waterboarded out of them.

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Bingo

21.11.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it just seems plainly clear to me that if you serve the country in any capacity, civil or military, and you are not a conservative white man, the Trump administration wants to make the workplace as hostile an environment as possible so you remove yourself

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The House is scrambling to avoid a censure death spiral In their first full week back after the shutdown, lawmakers voted five times on measures to rebuke colleagues, eating up hours of floor time.

Bring back the duel

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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right? i only have 13 years left. i’d rather lose most of my 401k now and have time to recover than for the rug pull to happen when i only have a handful of years left to go. i know it’s inevitable. i just want it to be over with. i’m tired

20.11.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am rooting for the bubble to pop sooner than later for this basic reason: please end your generational fuckup ASAP so I still have time to attempt to recover my retirement losses

20.11.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.

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Every Republican president of my lifetime has destroyed the global economy and it doesn’t matter at all electorally

20.11.2025 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 471    πŸ” 110    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 5

Post-imperial seppuku

21.11.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.

"When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search."

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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

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Simply too good to be true

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Is this what Republicans want

21.11.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My god

21.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

Incredible headline.

20.11.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 7701    πŸ” 1573    πŸ’¬ 244    πŸ“Œ 225

Sure!

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Is that all

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Ha ha ha yes

20.11.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You were awfully quiet when universities were firing faculty for trying to keep police from beating the shit out of students, Jason. Glad you found a university HR matter you can get behind!

20.11.2025 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 107    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool

20.11.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3240    πŸ” 684    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 29
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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.

But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.

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