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Pete Arethas

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Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance. Adjunct Professor of Economics and Business Strategy. Private Equity, Venture Capital advisory and placement. 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

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 7h

This is happening in Chicago. If you’re not familiar with the South Shore neighborhood, it’s about 3 miles from where the Obamas still have a home. They had their wedding reception in the South Shore Cultural Center (my parents too).

Who knew 1940s Germany was only miles away from where we live.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 23h

Tweeting us into a recession …
because tariffs sounded “strong”.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 1d

Covfefe!

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 1d

Gulf of … New Jersey

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 2d

Businesses can’t allocate capital because tariffs are so random and arbitrary. The president is tweeting us into a recession.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 3d

Well yeah, ICE wouldn't be able to run and catch them.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

10 days until the biggest peaceful protests in modern American history. A No Kings Day event is likely happening near you wherever you are. Please join us to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Rep. Sean Casten @casten.house.gov · 5d

TOMORROW: Join my Tele-Town Hall at 6:30 pm CT.

Bring your questions about the government shutdown and what’s happening in Washington.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 5d

Can Gov Pritzker ban travel from Texas?
Prevent Texas-based sports teams from playing in Illinois?

Just trying to think of creative ways to bring attention to the fact that we’re being invaded by Texas, this cold civil war is still new to us.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, Governor! #IllinoisStrong

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 5d

My country is invading my state against my state’s wishes. #IllinoisStrong #ChicagoStrong

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. Those American citizen children in Chicago zip tied by secret police in masks and vest were absolutely worried about a …
health insurance premium spike.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 5d

This Democrat copy and paste messaging strategy is failing. Badly.

How in the heck is your party’s approval rating sooo awful when the other party is running their fascism authoritarian playbook?

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 6d

Yet another copy-and-paste “health care premium” post from the Democrats to the president.

Who. Is. Not. On. This. Platform.

The message isn’t working. I literally don’t know how your party’s polling numbers could be worse when you’re competing against fascism.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 6d

And they’re doing a phenomenal job at it. These poll numbers seem bad. Perhaps it’s time for them to wake up. Their “cut and paste” posts aren’t working.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 6d

Hi Senator - Should we tell the children that were zip tied here in Chicago in the middle of the night that they shouldn’t worry because the Democrats are focused on … health coverage premiums?

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 6d

Are we safer today because secret police in tactical vests zip-tied children in the middle of the night because of their skin color?

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6d

“They was bringing the kids down too, had them zip-tied to each other,” she said. “That’s all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where’s the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘f*** them kids.’” trib.al/Eyd0Wfu

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 7d

For authoritarians they sure are frightened of … everything. Especially facts and journalists.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller is trying to provoke people into responding to the government's unlawful use of force because he wants his own Reichstag Fire. This is an old, and very dangerous playbook. Take video. Resist peacefully. But don't give these fascists what they want.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 7d

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 7d

No Kings in Chicago! #NoKings

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 11d

Umm Amy - the President of the United States just declared war on … the United States … in front of ALL the United States generals and admirals. Thoughts?

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 14d

Antifa is sitting in blue adirondack chairs! Gather every single general to Virginia and send in the Army!

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 15d

Please explain how 5 agents in vests using 1 autistic child as bait "makes America safe again"?

Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 15d

🧊 Holding an Autistic child hostage to coerce parents out might be the most disgusting thing yet.

Pete Arethas @petea.bsky.social · 15d

How does using a 5 yr old autistic child as bait “make America great again”? newrepublic.com/post/200827/...

ICE Agents Held 5-Year-Old Autistic Girl as Bait to Arrest Her Dad

Federal immigration agents are turning to increasingly sick tactics to meet the Trump administration’s arrest quota.

newrepublic.com