Patrick Hruby
@patrickhruby.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Washingtonian | Alum and bylines, many places | To pitch me: [email protected] | To reach me: www.patrickhruby.net
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
Washington Wizards have more fight than the Washington Democrats
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Washington Wizards have more fight than the Washington Democrats
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Trying to find the right imagery to describe the caving Dem senators and I’m stuck somewhere between “landed fish flopping on a boat deck” and “guys tidying up the ballroom as the Titanic sinks”
November 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trying to find the right imagery to describe the caving Dem senators and I’m stuck somewhere between “landed fish flopping on a boat deck” and “guys tidying up the ballroom as the Titanic sinks”
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
The most relevant historical analogy is Senate Dems giving up their filibuster of Alito and other Bush nominees in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Republicans wouldn't abuse the filibuster, a promise that needless to say they never even pretended to honor when they lost in 2026
This is key. The vote the Dems secured here is a fake nominal vote. Everyone knows this.
Markey & Pritzker weigh in…
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The most relevant historical analogy is Senate Dems giving up their filibuster of Alito and other Bush nominees in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Republicans wouldn't abuse the filibuster, a promise that needless to say they never even pretended to honor when they lost in 2026
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
The big lesson from the right wing capture of centrist media (eg the Washington Post), is that the quality of the product gets worse and the audience they are trying to appease are not going to tune in.
The BBC spends so much time bending over backwards to placate and whitewash the right, and it will never be enough because the British right does not want the BBC to exist.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The big lesson from the right wing capture of centrist media (eg the Washington Post), is that the quality of the product gets worse and the audience they are trying to appease are not going to tune in.
Yikes
Here’s the full federal indictment for the Cleveland Guardians pitchers. Prosecutors claim Clase fixed *hundreds* of prop bets between 2023 and 2025, then he began demanding a cut in ‘25. He also roped in Ortiz this year and, crucially, used his cell phone *during* games to text the bettors.
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Yikes
New levels of Democrat-ing
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New levels of Democrat-ing
This thread is why time travel fantasies have never held any appeal to me—I’ll stick with hot showers and toothpaste, thanks!
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This thread is why time travel fantasies have never held any appeal to me—I’ll stick with hot showers and toothpaste, thanks!
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
November 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
incredible that these guys have a massive hard on for a country that, if it were a state, would rank behind kansas in terms of wealth and which would be a total backwater if it weren’t economically integrated with more functional countries
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
November 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
what star wars really need is a HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER style submarine thriller
Starting to think the Fox-ification of WaPo op-ed section could make for an interesting Washingtonian feature story
November 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Starting to think the Fox-ification of WaPo op-ed section could make for an interesting Washingtonian feature story
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August.
Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Excellent observation
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Excellent observation
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
The less the conservative justices talk about the "major questions doctrine" in the tariffs case, the easier it will be for the Supreme Court to strike down anything the next Democratic president does that they don't personally like
The Conservative Justices Are Keeping the Major Questions Doctrine For Themselves
The six-justice conservative supermajority can both strike down Trump’s tariffs and preserve its power to veto future Democratic policies it doesn’t like.
ballsandstrikes.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The less the conservative justices talk about the "major questions doctrine" in the tariffs case, the easier it will be for the Supreme Court to strike down anything the next Democratic president does that they don't personally like
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Latest Army general to be jammed up over alleged wokeness is Pat Work, who led the Ranger company that fast-roped into the Korengal to recover the bodies during Operation Red Wings and was the 82nd brigade commander who dug ISIS out of Mosul
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Did Women Ruin The Workplace
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Did Women Ruin The Workplace
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
Any faith in the courts in the US must reckon with the ultimate legal authority of the Supreme Court that can will and does frequently overrule longstanding precedent on the basis of "Republican presidents should get to rule like kings."
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Any faith in the courts in the US must reckon with the ultimate legal authority of the Supreme Court that can will and does frequently overrule longstanding precedent on the basis of "Republican presidents should get to rule like kings."
Reposted by Patrick Hruby
my bet is that AI models will end up commoditized, and so insofar as anyone “wins” anything it’ll be the country with the cheapest and most abundant power
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
my bet is that AI models will end up commoditized, and so insofar as anyone “wins” anything it’ll be the country with the cheapest and most abundant power