Chris Galdieri
@cgaldieri.bsky.social
Political scientist; NH politics; carpetbagging; pop culture
Author, “Stranger in a Strange State” and “Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics”
Author, “Stranger in a Strange State” and “Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics”
Finally, some protesters will be getting paid.
I can't think of anything I'd want to do less with my time than attending a protest against taxing billionaires. This is an insane amount of bootlicking energy.
An AI startup founder says he's planning a 'March for Billionaires' in protest of California's wealth tax | TechCrunch
The organizer of the event swears it's not a joke.
techcrunch.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Finally, some protesters will be getting paid.
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Lots of time spent on “is Trump fascist” and “is Trump racist” debates that have now been settled quite conclusively.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Lots of time spent on “is Trump fascist” and “is Trump racist” debates that have now been settled quite conclusively.
Once again, I am apparently the only person on the planet who has watched Black Mirror.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Once again, I am apparently the only person on the planet who has watched Black Mirror.
I get my news from a reliable source.
February 5, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I get my news from a reliable source.
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one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
…nearly killed ‘im!
February 5, 2026 at 2:15 AM
…nearly killed ‘im!
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
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The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.
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So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.
January 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume
SPOILER: It's not letters of marque and reprisal.
A Constitutional Power Democrats Aren't Using politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/a...
A Constitutional Power Democrats Aren't Using politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/a...
A Constitutional Power Democrats Aren't Using
Sidney Blumenthal: "The Democrats hold in their hands constitutional means yet unused to check the Trump regime’s ruthless attempt to impose a police state. That the Democrats thus far have failed to ...
politicalwire.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:48 PM
SPOILER: It's not letters of marque and reprisal.
A Constitutional Power Democrats Aren't Using politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/a...
A Constitutional Power Democrats Aren't Using politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/a...
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 AM
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
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So many things have already gone wrong.
So many more things are going to go wrong.
So many more things are going to go wrong.
Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South
More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week’s storm, and thousands remain without power.
nyti.ms
February 2, 2026 at 3:41 AM
So many things have already gone wrong.
So many more things are going to go wrong.
So many more things are going to go wrong.
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ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
January 31, 2026 at 1:51 PM
ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. American Political Culture
2. Playwriting
3. The Novel in Antiquity
4. Politics of the Christian Right
5. Public Opinion
1. American Political Culture
2. Playwriting
3. The Novel in Antiquity
4. Politics of the Christian Right
5. Public Opinion
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
January 31, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. American Political Culture
2. Playwriting
3. The Novel in Antiquity
4. Politics of the Christian Right
5. Public Opinion
1. American Political Culture
2. Playwriting
3. The Novel in Antiquity
4. Politics of the Christian Right
5. Public Opinion
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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
January 30, 2026 at 4:40 PM
the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
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Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested
There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.
www.pbump.net
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...
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From the Vatican: The violence practiced by Trump's secret police in Minneapolis is not acceptable and must be called out for what it is. www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...
Parolin: “Inaccettabili le violenze degli agenti Ice a Minneapolis”
E monsignor Baturi sulla loro presenza alle olimpiadi invernali di Milano-Cortina: “Ci auguriamo che il rispetto dell'ordine pubblico sia assicurato il più pos…
www.repubblica.it
January 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM
From the Vatican: The violence practiced by Trump's secret police in Minneapolis is not acceptable and must be called out for what it is. www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2026...
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This is just as much a public policy choice as occupying Minnesota is. It's also even less popular. There's a lot out there, but Dems should be making it clear that Trump is doing this.
South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas.
The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
South Carolina measles outbreak reaches 789 cases, surpassing Texas
The ongoing outbreak is the largest since measles was eliminated in the country 26 years ago.
www.nbcnews.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This is just as much a public policy choice as occupying Minnesota is. It's also even less popular. There's a lot out there, but Dems should be making it clear that Trump is doing this.
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The extent to which residents of Minneapolis are more civic, courageous, and patriotic than business elites, conservative luminaries, and Republican members of Congress, is really, really striking. It’s a lesson not to be forgotten. It’s one that would not have surprised Hubert Humphrey.
January 28, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The extent to which residents of Minneapolis are more civic, courageous, and patriotic than business elites, conservative luminaries, and Republican members of Congress, is really, really striking. It’s a lesson not to be forgotten. It’s one that would not have surprised Hubert Humphrey.
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It is 1856. Armed men from other states, with the government’s blessing, kidnap neighbors and kill locals for opposing them.
It is 2026….
It is 2026….
January 28, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It is 1856. Armed men from other states, with the government’s blessing, kidnap neighbors and kill locals for opposing them.
It is 2026….
It is 2026….
During a bipartisan visit to Denmark, Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Lisa Murkowski write, “we heard from Greenlanders who can’t sleep, and who told us that their children are crying amid fear of invasion — not from China or Russia, but from the United States.”
Opinion | Shaheen and Murkowski: Congress Must Defend NATO From Trump
America must defend its greatest asset: Its alliances.
nyti.ms
January 27, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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“All of us in Washington can “strategize” and sermonize. But it is the people of Minnesota who have reminded us what, in the defense of liberty, free men and women can do.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-opposi...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-opposi...
The Opposition Is Winning in Minneapolis
The killing of Alex Pretti has forced the White House to retreat.
www.thebulwark.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“All of us in Washington can “strategize” and sermonize. But it is the people of Minnesota who have reminded us what, in the defense of liberty, free men and women can do.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-opposi...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-opposi...
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You can chafe at people calling them the "secret police" or you can insist they stayed masked and anonymous while they take facial-rec photos of citizens. Can't do both
It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
You can chafe at people calling them the "secret police" or you can insist they stayed masked and anonymous while they take facial-rec photos of citizens. Can't do both