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
No excuse now not to hire @davidjroth.bsky.social to coach the basketball team
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
No excuse now not to hire @davidjroth.bsky.social to coach the basketball team
Good night sweet prince
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Good night sweet prince
podcast shadowboxing
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
podcast shadowboxing
We are so back (to 2007)
November 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We are so back (to 2007)
People really will just write and say anything I guess
October 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
People really will just write and say anything I guess
I wish I could say Americans want something different, but regardless of how much they complain about elites and corruption and stuff being unfair and blah blah blah, they’ve been voting for the economic system we now inhabit my entire life. We got here because of the people’s will, not despite it!
October 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I wish I could say Americans want something different, but regardless of how much they complain about elites and corruption and stuff being unfair and blah blah blah, they’ve been voting for the economic system we now inhabit my entire life. We got here because of the people’s will, not despite it!
lmao anything in this country but the progressive tax rates of the 1950s
October 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
lmao anything in this country but the progressive tax rates of the 1950s
The difference between the way Americans frame and think about violent crimes they inflict and violent crimes they fear they might suffer is really something
October 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The difference between the way Americans frame and think about violent crimes they inflict and violent crimes they fear they might suffer is really something
Do the voters who keep pulling the lever for these folks ever get assigned agency and accountability, too, or nah?
October 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Do the voters who keep pulling the lever for these folks ever get assigned agency and accountability, too, or nah?
NYT what the f are you doin’
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
NYT what the f are you doin’
Excuse me—the what, now?
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Excuse me—the what, now?
Venture capitalists have incredible takes
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Venture capitalists have incredible takes
America needs more whites nursing imaginary grievances, absolutely
October 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
America needs more whites nursing imaginary grievances, absolutely
These idiots really deeply believe that it’s some kind of trick or brainwashing—pulled by the government, the schools, Hollywood, the NFL, whatever—when other people don’t share their beliefs about the world and how it should work.
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
These idiots really deeply believe that it’s some kind of trick or brainwashing—pulled by the government, the schools, Hollywood, the NFL, whatever—when other people don’t share their beliefs about the world and how it should work.
Instead of writing yet another essay about morality from deep within his mind palace, what if David Brooks simply posed this Q to the portion of the American electorate that voted for Trump and likes what Republicans are doing?
October 15, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Instead of writing yet another essay about morality from deep within his mind palace, what if David Brooks simply posed this Q to the portion of the American electorate that voted for Trump and likes what Republicans are doing?
Some real OG scammer stuff from Dr. Phil
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Some real OG scammer stuff from Dr. Phil
Republicans have become what they once pretended to despise
October 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Republicans have become what they once pretended to despise
Humans can do this just fine already! I’m hardly a fan of LLMs,
but to me this is a Juciero-type harm, not sure the tech is actually amplifying anything
but to me this is a Juciero-type harm, not sure the tech is actually amplifying anything
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Humans can do this just fine already! I’m hardly a fan of LLMs,
but to me this is a Juciero-type harm, not sure the tech is actually amplifying anything
but to me this is a Juciero-type harm, not sure the tech is actually amplifying anything
Inadvertently honest chyron
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Inadvertently honest chyron