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Peter Gratton
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Peter Gratton, PhD, is an editor at Investopedia, book author, and professor of philosophy. He covers political theory, technology, finance, and political economy. Views are definitely my own.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2h
An absolute must to read and ponder. Right through to the end. By Spencer Ackerman.

"Weiss simply has no idea what it took to report this story, and even less about the value of what her reporter delivered. Ellison would not have installed someone who did."

www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com

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dillo (wiglet tuttle) @dillo.media · 6h
pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written
E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone by Michael Ward MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t know if it’s optimism or procrastination that has many setting up similarly unrealistic goals for the new year just as time ticks down on not meeting them this year. Happy reading!

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 10h
Isn’t that us all? He’s inevitable in conversation and you’re forced to try to think of anything that doesn’t retread every previous convo. It’s like small talk about the weather where it never changes.

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 1d
A review of @nickbernards.bsky.social's Fictions of Financialization by @petergratton.bsky.social - is speculative capitalism a distinctly neoliberal problem, or has capital always taken this form? olrsupplement.com/2025/05/29/f...
Fictions of Financialization, by Nick Bernards - The OLR Supplement
Bernards offers one of the best readings of the inextricability of finance and capital, but fails to account for genuine contemporary transformations
olrsupplement.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
The GRFT ETF has SEC approval to trade but no one will touch it—it's been turned down by the NYSE, Nasdaq, and CBOE. Next it's trying the new Texas Stock Exchange, which begins trading in the new year. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grift’ ETF Tied to Washington Access in Trump Era Hits a Wall
Wall Street’s $13 trillion ETF machine pushed boundaries this year, cranking out ever-riskier products to feed retail traders hooked on yield, leverage and novelty.
www.bloomberg.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
Saddened you won't get a chance to invest in (I swear this is real) GRFT, the ticker for a new ETF covering Trump admin-related firms? Well, 5 new alternatives are now trading:
www.investors.com/news/trump-t...
www.investors.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing—and how lovely to offer herself as a source for friends over a tricky (it was tricky itself picking the adjective there) process to go through.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
Um, I whisper that every time.
seanthomason.bsky.social Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 4d
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
Terrifying bathroom with concrete floor and wood paneling, huge with nothing in it like a kill room

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 1d
The past year has been terrifying. Really, the past two—I lost a lot of sleep in 2024 over the promises of the Trump campaign, promises they immediately sought to make good on. But at the end of the first year of his would-be dictatorship, I am calling it: we are going to win.
We Are Going to Win
Trump's revolution will fail, but we still have a long and painful road ahead of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
While philosophy depts are being cut like crazy, it’s amazing how it’s otherwise found it’s all over every discourse now.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
I wish our collective knowledge of anything wasn’t BS made up to move silly movies’ plot points along.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 1d
I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
Yeah I wasn’t sure what the value add was before (it’s not like SEC regs are only for blue states so hand waving about less regs was more about vibes), esp given changes since at the SEC.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
Interesting they think they can go to TXSE, which has essentially sold itself as tight with Texas republicans.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
Hmm. There are ETFs that track Congressional trades on both the Dem and Repub side. I guess the ticker was too on the nose.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d
Great update of O. Henry. For a few years after I got my PhD in philosophy, my default Xmas gift from relatives was chess sets (I don’t play), including, one year, a Simpsons chess set. Had no idea it was so rare.

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 4d
Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”
Terrifying bathroom with concrete floor and wood paneling, huge with nothing in it like a kill room

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d
Great reporting from earlier in the year.
boltsmag.org Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4d
Louisiana is the only state where justices of the peace can pad their own salaries with eviction fees—a rule that critics warn incentivizes them to rule in favor of landlords and grant evictions.
In Louisiana, Some Court Officials Get Paid to Evict
Justices of the peace can line their pockets by granting evictions. A new lawsuit argues that’s unconstitutional.
boltsmag.org

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4d
Louisiana is the only state where justices of the peace can pad their own salaries with eviction fees—a rule that critics warn incentivizes them to rule in favor of landlords and grant evictions.
In Louisiana, Some Court Officials Get Paid to Evict
Justices of the peace can line their pockets by granting evictions. A new lawsuit argues that’s unconstitutional.
boltsmag.org

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 5d
I remember the moment in a course I had to show how some basic element of Google Docs or Word worked and was like, welp, growing up on smart phones does not make one tech savvy.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, I don’t get that either—just say we all make mistakes during long days with lots happening. But then we did get treacherous Canadians out of this. And that’s grace there.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
Of course, there’s the 90s infomercial version, where they always have you the solution to a made-up problem: (camera pans to a woman dramatically massaging her neck) “Are you tired of the neck pain from shaking your head ‘no’ at mainstream media defenses of Bari Weiss? At Liberal Currents…”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
That said, in recent years, you can watch students starting to do that fist hold of pencils just to get through short written quizzes but maybe we’ll get better adult handwriting out of this.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
Philosophy major so it was “here’s two blue books, you have 1:30, and referencing at least two philosophers, answer the question, ‘What is the good?’”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
Imagining some 80s local TV commercial version of this—“No Sally Jenkins—Guaranteed!”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
In case you need citations for Xmas dinner discussions.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d
Research from recent decades shows that children that were disfavored by their parents during childhood are more likely to have poorer mental health, worse family relationships and less academic success than their siblings.
Do Parents Have Favorite Children? Of Course They Do.
And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.
nyti.ms

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d
Research from recent decades shows that children that were disfavored by their parents during childhood are more likely to have poorer mental health, worse family relationships and less academic success than their siblings.
Do Parents Have Favorite Children? Of Course They Do.
And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.
nyti.ms

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
The 80s were a wild time—just didn’t understand redundant phrasing yet.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 7d
Nice case study for the a journalism ethics class: do you continue to take notes and report, help the person asking for it, or wait for the Trump administration to comment so you can publish?