The World is Bent

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"The world is so still now, invaded by hands flailing."
It's easy to talk about two Americas when it comes to bipartisan politics, but I'm increasingly seeing it as the online-obsessed and normal world.
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Ross Gianfortune
"Are you the messenger and is this home?"
The marketplace of ideas should not be peddling poison or actively incorrect messages about the 2020 election. No, not even from a former president.
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Ross Gianfortune
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"Stand in the way and fate will simply go around."
We may be at an inflection point in the media personality ecosystem and, as such, Nate Silver is becoming a free agent at an auspicious time.
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Ross Gianfortune
"By the time they realize we’re gone, fire will be the only light. "
The end of American administrative government won't come with a bang, but with a series of whimpers disguised as federal court decisions.
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Ross Gianfortune
"Farewell to the forests and the wild hanging woods. Farewell to the torrents, and the loud pouring floods."
How does one even eulogize something as slithery – and necessary – as Twitter?
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Ross Gianfortune
April 2023
"I'm getting weaker, I'm getting thin. I hate how obvious I have been."
Tucker Carlson exemplifies "I read it in the paper" as much as anyone ever has.
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Ross Gianfortune
"Darkened heart, enlightened mind. Whole worlds apart remain entwined."
Marianne Williamson has tapped into something, but she's far from alone.
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"Now there's no turning back. Reality is both fictional and fact."
Taxes are too complicated in the U.S. and there's too much paperwork involved. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Ross Gianfortune
"The symmetry of light forms. The gravity is my storm."
It looks like Donald Trump is doing to be indicted, after all.
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Ross Gianfortune
March 2023
"I've made no mistakes. I'm never learning from them. I got no regrets. I wanna do it again."
I'm worried about the trust that people put into celebrity wellness experts like Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Ross Gianfortune
"Reality is the new fiction they say. Truth is truer these days, truth is man-made."
I'm getting pretty tired of the revisioning and retelling of how the Iraq War was sold and turned out.
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Ross Gianfortune
“Is this my reality? And is this really happening?”
Fox News producers, like all TV news staffers, need to take a good, hard look at who they trust as guests on the air.
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Ross Gianfortune
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