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Pete Arethas

@petea.bsky.social
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Visiting Professor of Finance. Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy. PE/VC fundraising.

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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 22h
It’s the Gulf of Mexico. It’s Lake Superior. It’s Artificial intelligence. It’s the Epstein Files. It was an insurrection. Soon it will be Speaker Jeffries.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In 2029 it’ll be renamed to “nationalized”.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wasn’t going to vote for Ken Paxton. But now after seeing his ad here in Chicago during the Bears game … I’m still not going to vote for Ken Paxton. Good ad spend though. Commercials are inexpensive in Chicago DURING A BEARS game and we tend to vote GOP in the Texas Senate races.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wasn’t going to vote for Ken Paxton. But now after seeing that Paxton ad here in Chicago during the Bears game … I’m still not going to vote for Ken Paxton.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Did Woodward break this one? Bernstein? Or both?
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some morning musings on AI. We need to stop talking about this as technology issue. It's an ethics & law enforcement issue. Thread:
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sleepy is better than Sleeping
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just wait until the Senator from Missouri learns that Missouri had a St Louis Cardinals football team and a St Louis Cardinals baseball team (and NEITHER were affiliated with the Atlanta Hawks).
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If China invents Super Duper Intelligence we’re screwed.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Perjury: NOT going to a Hawks game when NOT in Atlanta. Presidential: inciting an insurrection that wanted to hang the Vice President of the United States.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sen. Schmitt: I noticed your last name is “Smith” as in Lovie Smith, as in the former head coach of the Chicago Bears, a team supported by Barack Obama, whose VP was Biden who was the opponent that lost to Trump in 2020 even though he didn’t. Don’t you see your conflict of interest, Mr. Smith?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stannis Baratheon for Secretary of Defense. He knows war and grammar.
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Stannis Baratheon: Got Fewer
ALT: Stannis Baratheon: Got Fewer
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know a president that’s a child predator that has served 6 years so far
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You should show this post to Senator Mark Warner. He could act on it.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The M in MRI stands for MAGA. The R is for Rocks.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada? The same Canada that IMMEDIATELY came to our aid within minutes on 9/11? Our closest and most trusted of allies? Our neighbors? Our number one trading partner? That Canada? What’s literally wrong with that guy?
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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lasting legacy of polio is the fact that Nordstrom will, to this day, sell you two different-sized shoes for the price of one. This was done to differentiate themselves in the marketplace to serve the large population of polio survivors with different sized limbs/feet (incl possibly Mrs Nordstrom)
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well at least he’ll be OUTGOING Speaker the next time you vote. That’ll be a fun day back.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In response to Thomas Massie's actions to force a vote on the impeachment of Pete Hegseth... Mike Johnson has cancelled all remaining votes between today and the November election. You can't make this stuff up.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These sorority rush videos are out of control
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What’s going on with Trump’s $800 million war chest? Just leaving with it in 2029? He’s not deploying it
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fact: it was on Thursday in Dallas (End of facts)
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yeah that makes sense. Thanks for all that you do, Dustin. It’s noticed especially during this odd time.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is the government using the strategic reserve to boost consumer supply and manipulate prices? And do all the oil companies benefit from this?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’d wager my $5,000 DOGE check, on the president’s son’s prediction market, that a $5,000 election bribery check won’t be delivered (by the post office the president wants to defund) before the president tries to overturn an election again.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I bet my $5,000 DOGE check on the president’s son’s prediction market that the post office the president wants to defund won’t deliver my $5,000 election bribery check by the time the president tries to overthrow the government again
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ll bet you my $5,000 DOGE check that my $5,000 election bribery check won’t be delivered by the post office he’s defunding.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ll bet my $5,000 DOGE check that my $5,000 election bribery check won’t be delivered by the post office he’s defunding.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’ll be in the same envelopes as the $5,000 DOGE and $2,000 tariff checks. He even saves us money on envelopes and stamps when committing felonies.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Or 3x more than TARP.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Add another $1.35 trillion to the deficit to buy an election.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So screw you, George Washington.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump Straight? Trump Crooked.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have him at 5 wins. Washington stole that one in 1789
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If someone told us 15 years ago this would be a real video we wouldn’t believe it
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thought it would be in 1930s German
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When does Chief Justice Roberts lead the YMCA dance?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
No chance they know who Jon Ossoff is … or Hasan Piker … or even Mike Collins.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So it’s a race with China to end humanity. Can’t let them win!
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you’ve lost “Newsnation” you’ve lost.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So does Trump
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will he get a jacket?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Let me guess … bad.
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Let me guess … like Germany in 1938?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Let me guess … like a cult?
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So is he a MAGAcrat? Or just an ass?
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I thought we won this “not a war” war 6 times last month
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Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wait. How much are they paying people to take a photo with Vance?
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