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....
https://lvgaldieri.com/2026/06/08/san-francisco-street-photographs-late-1980s/
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 repurchased Apollo Global’s 49 percent share in an Irish joint venture, known as the Ireland SCIP. This much is clear from the timeline of Trump’s Intel trades I put together earlier this…
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 repurchased Apollo Global’s 49 percent share in an Irish …
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 January of this year that he had made "tens of billions of dollars for the American people" in the four months after he converted Intel's Biden CHIPS Act grant to an equity stake.
https://lvgaldieri.com/2026/05/19/a-timeline-of-trumps-intel-trades/
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 War in the early 1970s." I am not much of a poll tracker. But the Washington Post story about this new polling caught my eye, not only because I've been watching Emile de…
https://lvgaldieri.com/2026/05/01/is-the-iran-war-the-greatest-strategic-defeat-in-american-history/
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 me) that this latest bid to hand over the Boundary Waters to a foreign mining company is part of a coordinated political project, one that stretches back to Trump's first term and…
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 me) that this latest bid t…
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 reporting on the effort to undo the 20-year Boundary Waters mining moratorium (“In Minnesota’s wilderness, a town divided over the future of mining,” Globe and Mail 13 April 2026)…
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 reporting on the effort to undo …
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 asked for yet another 180-day abeyance. The mining company clearly sees that it has little chance of succeeding at law, so it has joined forces with the federal government, the…
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 asked …
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 decry his belligerence over Greenland, not because it is a belligerent resource-grab but on the grounds that it alienates NATO allies.
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," that affirmation, that assurance by the manufacturer, to make a decision. A reasonable person might decide, say, to purchase a Shinobi II monitor in order to take advantage of…
https://lvgaldieri.com/2026/03/27/atomos-firmware-and-fraud/
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 from Chile who rents them their mansion in D.C. — will use the Boundary Waters as his toilet. Pro-sulfide mining politicians in Minnesota and Washington are handing him the washroom…
Kalorama Sewer_ 2025115942Download Law professor and ethics watchdog Richard Painter put it bluntly back in 2019: Jared and Ivanka’s landlord — a billionaire from Chile who rents them their mansion…
