Chris Galdieri

Chris Galdieri

@cgaldieri.bsky.social

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Political scientist; NH politics; carpetbagging; pop culture

Author, “Stranger in a Strange State” and “Donald Trump and New Hampshire Politics”

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I am here for General Azari content.

Abraham Lincoln was pretty sure he would lose reelection in 1864, some historical accounts suggest. The Union still kept fighting the fucking civil war. We can keep our fainting couches off the internet.

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Never forget the real reason for Prime Day.

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It’s the first election after a coup attempt and the coup plotters are using democratic means to try to retake power. We probably don’t talk about that with enough clarity.

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Christina Wolbrecht

sorry to get on my soapbox here, but it is a real reminder that people have fought against horrible oppression and exclusion and just giving up in July is unacceptable (which is not to say we don't all need mental health breaks)

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The rapid-fire series of events over the past 18 days has been as mind-bending a stretch in American politics as I can remember. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The Whirlwind Of Events Defies What We Know About The Slow Grind Of Politicstalkingpointsmemo.com A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

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There are also likely lingering physical effects - the adrenaline rush and subsequent crash are not things you just shake off with a good night’s sleep.

I find it strange that the GOP POTUS nominee had a near death experience 48 hours ago and there's almost no commentary about how that must be messing with his mind. There's no reason to think he would be processing this any differently than anyone else.

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… “I don’t know that I can disrespect someone more than J. D. Vance” —Romney

FWIW I just read McKay Coppins’ Romney book, and Romney is BRUTAL on JD Vance.

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Attitudinal model That's it, that's the post.

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Defending democracy is a great and mighty cause.

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“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Nobody who wants to replace Biden has come up with anything resembling an off-ramp.

First sign of the establishment actually doing some nudging but still sloppy and a bad story to tell if you want to convince Biden.

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This is very Snow Crash.

WTF. The electric company in Texas doesn't have a map of outages so people have been using the Whataburger App to figure out who lost power. This is like when Homer was using the Krusty Burger map when they got lost at sea.

I, for one, welcome our new overlords from planet Fartshard.

An exoplanet where rain made of glass flies through the atmosphere was hiding another secret: It has an atmosphere that smells like sulfur.

Nearby exoplanet reeks of rotten eggs — revealing a molecule never before found outside our solar system | CNNcnn.it An exoplanet where rain made of glass flies through the atmosphere was hiding another secret: It has an atmosphere that smells like sulfur.

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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.

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@chucktingle.bsky.social wanted for questioning.

Let us never forget: Kansas City has a Tyrannosaurus model that was assembled with it's butt on backwards. Wife for scale

Has anyone ever seen Kier Starmer and Jay Inslee in the same place at the same time

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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.

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One paragraph every American needs to read this July 4th. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

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Could you show us the actual words in the Constitution that say the president is immune from criminal law?

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It's going to be a weird 4th of July in an America whose supreme court just reinvented kings.

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Brazil being a more solid democracy than the US has me pretty shook www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for suspected falsification of his personal vaccine recordswww.pbs.org During the pandemic, Bolsonaro was one of the few world leaders who railed against the vaccine, openly flouting health restrictions and encouraging other Brazilians to follow his example.

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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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With its immunity decision, SCOTUS took a sledgehammer to the constitutional foundation of American democracy and eviscerated the rule of law. It will go down in the annals of wretched decisions alongside Dred Scott, Plessy, and Korematsu. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The Supreme Court Took A Sledgehammer To American Democracytalkingpointsmemo.com This is special hair-on-fire edition of TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email...

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In light of the Trump v. U.S. ruling, perhaps we should be chatting a bit more about the Republican's eagerness to amplify messages about "treason" and "military tribunals" for his perceived political foes? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump amplifies radical retaliatory message targeting Liz Cheneywww.msnbc.com When Donald Trump amplifies radical rhetoric about "treason" and "military tribunals" for his domestic foes, there's a problem.

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"Our lives had not prepared us for extremity, to mobilize or to be as focussed and energized as I can see, in retrospect, we would have needed to be. We were not prepared to drop everything in defense of a system that was, to us, like oxygen: used constantly, never noted." tinyurl.com/y867ctkr

“Love Letter”tinyurl.com Fiction by George Saunders: “What would you have done? I know what you will say: you would have fought. But how? How would you have fought?”

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Remember how Trump said "I have an Article II where I have a right to do whatever I want as president" and every legal scholar said "No you moron, that's not what it says," but now the Supreme Court said "Actually, wouldn't it be cool if he did? Let's do that."