Pete Arethas
@petea.bsky.social
Visiting Professor of Economics, Private Equity and Finance.
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy.
Chicago
Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy.
Chicago
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Pete Arethas
@petea.bsky.social
· Jul 4
“To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
- Declaration of Independence, 1776
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
- Declaration of Independence, 1776
This is where we are.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
This is where we are.
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"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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I voted against the funding package considered by the House today because we must prevent the further murder of Americans, ensure due process, and address the catastrophic failures by Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security.
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I voted against the funding package considered by the House today because we must prevent the further murder of Americans, ensure due process, and address the catastrophic failures by Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.
Spider-Man Homecoming!
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Spider-Man Homecoming!
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This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
February 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
ICE: Resign.
The Mayor of Portland, OR after ICE shot tear gas into a crowd
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
“To those who..work for ICE: Resign..Through your use of violence and..trampling of the Constitution, you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame. [G]o home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children”
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
ICE: Resign.
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We have to keep up the pressure. That is how we are compelling the release of the Epstein Files. That is how we saw some House Republicans support the extension of ACA tax credits. And it is how we will protect our democracy and our values.
January 31, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We have to keep up the pressure. That is how we are compelling the release of the Epstein Files. That is how we saw some House Republicans support the extension of ACA tax credits. And it is how we will protect our democracy and our values.
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Source: DOJ to release Epstein files in theaters showing Melania so that they can be sure that no one will see them.
January 31, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Source: DOJ to release Epstein files in theaters showing Melania so that they can be sure that no one will see them.
Amazing, Spider-Man.
January 30, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Amazing, Spider-Man.
Had enough? This is disgusting.
DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Had enough? This is disgusting.
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
Are we 'great' yet? This is unthinkably cruel and un-American.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
A Texas man detained by ICE was his disabled son’s sole caregiver. His son will be laid to rest without him | CNN
Wael Tarabishi’s family had hoped his father and primary caretaker could be present as they say their final goodbyes to the 30-year-old at his funeral on Thursday.
www.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Are we 'great' yet? This is unthinkably cruel and un-American.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/u...
Financial markets have been resilient but when the executive branch from the world’s largest economy intentionally breaks … everything, the financial markets will bend and maybe break.
Maybe this is about central banks. Maybe it’s about inflation hedges. Maybe it’s about masked agents of the state shooting unarmed US citizens 10 times in the back — and we still don’t know who, or where, they are.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but gold is up 7% from yesterday's close.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Financial markets have been resilient but when the executive branch from the world’s largest economy intentionally breaks … everything, the financial markets will bend and maybe break.
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.
I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic
January 28, 2026 at 11:59 PM
ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.
5 yrs old. US citizen.
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 AM
5 yrs old. US citizen.
This is the Congressional leadership we need.
It is obscene that any member of Congress is suggesting that we can EO our way out of murder. Pass laws to reform ICE or get out of your damn job to make way for people who understand Congress' role. But don't ask for Trump to fix the mess your cowardice created. . (2/2)
January 28, 2026 at 1:36 AM
This is the Congressional leadership we need.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.
Excellent article!
Excellent article!
January 26, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.
Excellent article!
Excellent article!
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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