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Louis V. Galdieri

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Who’s really running the Twin Metals show at Interior? Antofagasta plc, the foreign company with plans to mine copper and nickel on the edge of the Boundary Waters, paid The Bernhardt Group $120,000 to lobby on its behalf in the third quarter of 2026, … […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Antofagasta Asks for Another Delay in the Boundary Waters Litigation so that Kate MacGregor Can Fix Their Mineral Leases The foreign mining company with plans to mine nickel and copper on the edge of the Boundary Waters today asked the DC District Court of Appeals for yet another 180-day delay […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Pete Seeger, 2002 While looking for photographs of John Brehm the other day, I came across a contact sheet with some pictures of Pete Seeger.... lvgaldieri.com/2026/09/01/pete-seeg…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

John Brehm, 1955-2026 The poet John Brehm passed away on Monday, in Portland, Oregon. John and I were friends, close friends when he lived just down the block from me, on Berkeley Place, here in Brooklyn.... lvgaldieri.com/2026/08/26/john-breh…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

A FOIA Update, Of Sorts Last week, a Government Information Specialist at the State Department emailed to ask if I would still be interested in records I requested in 2021 under the Freedom of Information Act.... lvgaldieri.com/2026/08/12/a-foia-up…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

A New Report On Revolving Door Corruption that Helps Make Sense of the Latest Twin Metals Lobbying Disclosures Lobbying activity for the Twin Metals copper and nickel mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters increased dramatically in the second quarter of 2026 […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Another Look at the Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel Trades The Wall Street Journal last week reported on "Trump's trading surges around major policy decisions," most notably around his Liberation Day tariffs and the pause on tariffs he announced one week later […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

A Revised Schedule of Trump’s Intel Trades The financial disclosure filed with the Office of Government Ethics on Monday affords another look at Trump's Intel trades.... lvgaldieri.com/2026/07/02/a-revised…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

An Incomplete Look at Cantor Fitzgerald’s Rigetti Trades and Some Reconsideration of the Commerce-Cantor Connection Right around the time Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was taking a 10 percent equity stake in Intel for the US government, Cantor Fitzgerald —the firm Lutnick ran for 34 years […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

San Francisco Street Photographs, Late 1980s These photographs are from several rolls of black and white 35mm film I shot on the San Francisco streets in the late 1980s.... lvgaldieri.com/2026/06/08/san-franc…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Cantor Fitzgerald Built an Enormous Position in Intel While Howard Lutnick Negotiated the Government’s 10 Percent Stake (And Trump Got Some, Too) Trump bought Intel shares on six separate occasions in March of 2026, just before Intel’s market-moving announcement on 1 April that it had […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

A Timeline of Trump’s Intel Trades Here's a timeline that plots Trump's Intel trades against Intel's stock price. I've included a few major policy changes and announcements. It's a rough sketch that tries to put the Intel trades in context. Maybe others will find it useful. Trump boasted in […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

Is the Iran War the Greatest Strategic Defeat in American History? There's a new poll out today showing that "Trump's war in Iran" -- and it is his war, let's make no mistake about that -- "is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

A Reminder that Antofagasta’s Copper and Nickel Mine on the edge of the Boundary Waters is a Coordinated Political Project In my most recent post about the Senate vote to overturn the Rainy River Watershed Mineral Withdrawal, I made the simple point (for what seems the umpteenth time, forgive […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

The Senate Vote on HJR 140 Is Not a Green Light to Mine Near the Boundary Waters, and There are Ways to Remedy the Harm Done Two days before the Senate voted last week to overturn the 20-year Rainy River Watershed Withdrawal, I sent this letter to the Globe and Mail: Nathan Vanderklippe’s […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2026

Another delay in the Boundary Waters litigation will open the door to even more political finagling No one should be surprised by the Joint Status Report just filed in the Boundary Waters litigation before the DC District Court of Appeals. Twin Metals, joined by the federal government, has […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Anti-War or Anti-Trump? You can be anti-Trump but still pro-war. Among Trump’s political opponents are those who criticize his execution of the Iran war, but don’t oppose waging war against Iran per se, or those who disapprove of the way he went about things in Venezuela, “but,” or those who […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Atomos, Firmware, and Fraud A reasonable person would conclude, after looking at this Sony FX3A page on the Atomos site and reading the word "Yes," that the "Touch to Focus" function on the Shinobi II monitor works with the Sony FX3A camera. And a reasonable person might then rely on that "Yes […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

The Chilean billionaire who wants to mine copper and nickel near the Boundary Waters can’t even be bothered to pay his DC sewer bill? Kalorama Sewer_ 2025115942Download Law professor and ethics watchdog Richard Painter put it bluntly back in 2019: Jared and Ivanka’s landlord — a billionaire […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

Donny McCaslin 16 Feb 26 Donny McCaslin with the Ari Hoenig Quartet last night at Smalls. Sony A7iii FE 1.8 85mm. lvgaldieri.com/2026/02/17/donny-mcc…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

Hitchhiking As A Type of Women’s Emancipation in the Early Thirties This scene from director Mervyn LeRoy's 1934 Heat Lightning brings me back to the observation that American women in the 1920s and 30s pioneered and popularized the practice of hitchhiking. Women like Doris Poggendee and Nettie […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

What Happens to the Appeal in Twin Metals v. US if the Senate Passes HJR 140? Forbes Magazine has excerpted and posted the same moment from the Rules Committee hearing on House Joint Resolution 140 that I did the other day: Pete Stauber's embarrassing concession that he brings HJR 140 on behalf […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Antofagasta’s Lobbyists Deliver “An Outrageous Abuse” of the Congressional Review Act It’s a little hard to sit through the video of yesterday’s Rules Committee hearing on House Joint Resolution 140, but it's worth it just to see Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez coax Pete Stauber to […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

If We’re Talking about the Violent Occupation and Colonization of Minnesota, Let’s Also Talk about the Play for Minnesota’s Critical Minerals The ever-prolific docket watcher and political commentator Marci Wheeler put up a video the other day where, in her words, she "laid out how Trump's […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

François Moutin, 8 Jan 26 François Moutin with the Pilc Moutin Hoenig Trio last night at Jazz Genius. (The trio plays tonight and tomorrow night as well.) Sony A7iii. 85mm 1.8. lvgaldieri.com/2026/01/09/francois-…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Goddard and Newman On Resource-Hoarding Hyper-Elites Stacie E. Goddard and Abraham Newman urge us to take off our "Westphalian blinders" if we are to make sense of the bullying, extortion, and belligerence that now passes for US foreign policy. Their paper on "neo-royalist cliques" addresses a […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Chasing Returns Leaves a Big Carbon Footprint This chart is from the World Inequality Report 2026, published this week by the World Inequality Lab. The authors explain: Most emission estimates traditionally attribute greenhouse gases to the final consumers of goods and services. This […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

The crackpot king loses his bid to shut down offshore wind Back in January, I wondered whether wind investors had standing to sue the Trump administration over the inauguration day memorandum suspending all federal approvals for offshore wind projects. It turns out the answer is yes, but the […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

A Second Adjournment Vibe Check on QQQ The Invesco QQQ shareholder meeting has been adjourned for a second time, because the company once again failed to muster the votes they need for their UIT-ETF conversion scheme. Invesco came awfully close on this round, with "over 50% of shares" voting […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

The Center for Biological Diversity Claps Back at House Republicans With blatant disregard for First Amendment protections, Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee are now conducting sham investigations into civil society groups who "oppose mining in Northern Minnesota and […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

A Global Politics That Will Finally Save the World? All of us must do our part and subject world leaders to extreme and relentless public pressure. The challenge of stranding potentially trillions of dollars in fossil capital and rebuilding the world is enormous. Of course, global leaders and […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Where are Grinevsky’s Notes? And why am I only just now learning about Andrei Gromyko's three rules for negotiating with the West? 1) demand the maximum – do not meekly ask, but demand that which has never been yours; 2) present ultimatums – do not hold back on threats, since you will always […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

Alt Text for Pete Hegseth’s November 1st Boat Strike Video Like many of the boat strike videos posted to social media by Trump, Hegseth, and the White House, the video of the attack conducted in the Caribbean on November 1st was edited and heavily redacted before its release. Like the other […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

All the Boat Strike Videos, To Date, in Chronological Order In my last couple of posts (here and here), I've been trying to look closely at some of the latest boat strike videos, call out some of their features, and discuss the information they offer as well as the information they withhold. It […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

Updated this post with the news that Mexican authorities failed to rescue the lone survivor of these latest boat strikes. mastodon.social/@lvgaldieri/1154528…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025

How the Boat Strike Videos Dehumanize and Gamify Murder The latest boat strike video shows US military attacks on four boats in the Eastern Pacific. The strikes killed 14 people and left one survivor, who is, according to Pete Hegseth, now in the hands of Mexican authorities. Edited together to […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

cleaned this up a bit and added a few thoughts. mastodon.social/@lvgaldieri/1154306…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

Some Notes on the Latest Boat Strike Video This morning, I downloaded the latest of the boat strike videos that the Secretary of Defense is posting on Twitter. (That sentence alone is kind of mind blowing, but let’s leave that discussion for another day.) After watching it a few times, I am […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

The Bernhardt Group’s Lobbying for Antofagasta’s Copper and Nickel Mine on the Edge of the Boundary Waters, Q3 2025 The Bernhardt Group, the lobbying shop set up just down the street from the White House by Trump's former Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, is now the sole firm lobbying […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

AI, GDP, and the Singularity The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published this chart of AI Scenarios back in June. I came across it for the first time today. lvgaldieri.com/2025/10/14/ai-gdp-an…

Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Against Converting QQQ from a Unit Investment Trust to an Open-End Fund I’ve been receiving mailings (surface mail, emails) about the upcoming vote on Invesco QQQ Trust for a few months now, urging and imploring me to vote Yes on converting the QQQ fund from a Unit Investment Trust or UIT to a […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

The Boundary Waters Litigation is on Hold, Again. I've been traveling for the past week or so, and haven't had a chance until this morning to publish these latest filings in Twin Metals v. US. (For background, see this, this, this, and this, among many other posts.) As those who have been […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Today, Pete Stauber Learned How Quotation Marks Work This is from today's House Natural Resources hearing, where Representative Jared Huffman offered an amendment to Stauber's HR 4090. As both Huffman and Teresa Leger Fernandez suggest in the discussion that follows, this is not just a one-off […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Reply from the CEO of BacTech Environmental Well, that was fast. Only a few hours after I published my post about BacTech Environmental this morning, CEO Ross Orr sent this reply -- drafted, he notes, by BacTech's lawyer. The requirement is that an application be made to the court of competent […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

Does the Board of BacTech Environmental Corporation Expect Shareholders to Wink at Years of Non-Compliance? I've just written to the investor relations people at BacTech Environmental Corporation to get some background information on two extraordinary resolutions included on this year's proxy […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

Where lawful corporate governance ends and the personalist regime begins I embarrassed myself when, back in January, I asked whether wind energy investors had standing to sue the Trump administration over a presidential memorandum pausing all federal approvals for wind power development. I was […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2025

Here’s the Deputy Secretary of the Interior Doing the Bidding of a Foreign Mining Company 2025-07-17-memo-reinstating-m-37049Download On the very same day that the DC District Court of Appeals issued its per curiam opinion putting the Boundary Waters litigation on hold for 90 days, Deputy […]

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Louis V. Galdieri @lvgaldieri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2025

David Bernhardt Sets Up His Own Shop to Lobby (indirectly) For Twin Metals I missed this June Politico story about David Bernhardt breaking with Brownstein Hyatt and setting up his own lobbying shop at 1455 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just a block away from the White House. The former Secretary of […]

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