Ross Gianfortune
@rjgianfortune.bsky.social
Digital journalist/editor.
My entire personality is defined by my Washington Spirit fandom. My brain has been ruined by the Internet. I once told a rec softball teammate that I’m “very Jewish.”
https://rjgianfortune.substack.com/
My entire personality is defined by my Washington Spirit fandom. My brain has been ruined by the Internet. I once told a rec softball teammate that I’m “very Jewish.”
https://rjgianfortune.substack.com/
LUX was the best album of 2025. Lonely People With Power was the second-best.
January 1, 2026 at 4:51 AM
LUX was the best album of 2025. Lonely People With Power was the second-best.
Well well well www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/w...
Venezuela Detains Americans Amid Growing U.S. Pressure
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December 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It finally happened: the chabad kids (teens) were in the Whole Foods parking lot and I got to tell one that I bought a challah at the store *and* told him I wrapped tefillin today.
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It finally happened: the chabad kids (teens) were in the Whole Foods parking lot and I got to tell one that I bought a challah at the store *and* told him I wrapped tefillin today.
Hey big guy, these are solvable problems.
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Hey big guy, these are solvable problems.
December 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,
December 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,
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There’s this moment in 30 Rock where Liz Lemon talks about wanting to just skip to the part of a relationship where you’re comfortable with each other and boring and the older I get the more I understand it
December 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There’s this moment in 30 Rock where Liz Lemon talks about wanting to just skip to the part of a relationship where you’re comfortable with each other and boring and the older I get the more I understand it
This movie seems like a perfect fever dream . I must see it
we’re scrolling around HBO and found AZTEC BATMAN and i need everyone to see Conquistador El Joker
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This movie seems like a perfect fever dream . I must see it
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Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
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Keep it up brother, everyone is with you
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Keep it up brother, everyone is with you
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I was born in April 1805
Napoleon was master of Europe
Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him
Oceans were now battlefields
Napoleon was master of Europe
Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him
Oceans were now battlefields
December 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I was born in April 1805
Napoleon was master of Europe
Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him
Oceans were now battlefields
Napoleon was master of Europe
Only the BRITISH FLEET stood before him
Oceans were now battlefields
Well well well. When you’re lost the guy who spoke at my shul the night before my bar mitzvah (true story!), you’ve lost all but the craziest American Jews. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
'Leading Jews back to the ghetto': A Democrat's accusation that leaves Netanyahu cornered
Rahm Emanuel Is a pro-Israel Stalwart Long Considered a Moderating Force in Democratic Politics. His Turn Against Israel's Prime Minister Should Be a Stark Warning of Things to Come for Netanyahu's St...
www.haaretz.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Well well well. When you’re lost the guy who spoke at my shul the night before my bar mitzvah (true story!), you’ve lost all but the craziest American Jews. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
This is good youtu.be/9NLYvxY5Ass?...
Rich Eisen’s Advice to Puka Nacua after Rams WR’s Controversial Livestream Appearance
YouTube video by The Rich Eisen Show
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December 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
This is good youtu.be/9NLYvxY5Ass?...
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[At an Epstein event] Hey man can you not take a thousand pictures of me?
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
[At an Epstein event] Hey man can you not take a thousand pictures of me?
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Get ready for a brand new era of clips of Moana saying slurs I guess
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Get ready for a brand new era of clips of Moana saying slurs I guess
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this seems like an awful idea that could only have happened if someone at Disney didn't understand that OpenAI can't actually promise to prevent the videos from doing brand-ruining things
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
this seems like an awful idea that could only have happened if someone at Disney didn't understand that OpenAI can't actually promise to prevent the videos from doing brand-ruining things
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Wow $1bn? That should cover a month of OpenAI’s inference costs
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Wow $1bn? That should cover a month of OpenAI’s inference costs
“We refer to these beliefs with terms such as ‘declaration of emergency,’ and ‘designation of terrorist organization.’ It is understood that the administration’s stories—say, sending troops into DC … — don’t work without these pretend beliefs.”
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Why Hegseth is Flailing
Congressional Republicans have agreed to suspend their disbelief, about a lot of things. Hegseth has let reality intrude.
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December 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“We refer to these beliefs with terms such as ‘declaration of emergency,’ and ‘designation of terrorist organization.’ It is understood that the administration’s stories—say, sending troops into DC … — don’t work without these pretend beliefs.”
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NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
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December 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
NEW: Pentagon lawyers asked State Dept. if US could send survivors of Trump's boat strikes to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Then Pentagon pushed to have survivors sent anywhere but the US — to prevent any US court cases. Gift link to our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
AB is many bad things, but he is so very charming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX07...
Alec Baldwin Talks 30 Rock, Fatherhood, Trial
YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show
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December 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
AB is many bad things, but he is so very charming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX07...
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"Secretary Pete Hegseth has opened an investigation into whether Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, committed a military crime by saying in the video what Ms. Bondi, Mr. Sauer and Justice Alito had said."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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Must the Military Disobey Unlawful Orders? Pam Bondi Has Said Yes.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Secretary Pete Hegseth has opened an investigation into whether Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, committed a military crime by saying in the video what Ms. Bondi, Mr. Sauer and Justice Alito had said."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...
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NEW:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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December 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
NEW:
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
I Wanted to Surprise My Family on Thanksgiving. ICE Deported Me Instead.
How the Trump administration turned a college freshman’s life upside down.
www.thecut.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her.
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
"My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me.
www.thecut.com/article/any-...
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"I always feel so stupid when I write this, but when I started in financial journalism, I assumed that the point of financial markets was to allocate capital to real-world economic uses, and by now I know that the point of financial markets is to create fun opportunities for gambling."
Buy Low, Sell to Yourself
Continuation funds, Amazon drivers, a narrow bank, Trump accounts, crypto gambling and PDT puzzles.
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December 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"I always feel so stupid when I write this, but when I started in financial journalism, I assumed that the point of financial markets was to allocate capital to real-world economic uses, and by now I know that the point of financial markets is to create fun opportunities for gambling."