Peter Gratton
@petergratton.bsky.social
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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The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
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thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
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got to write about the Chicago Architectural Biennial, and how its vision of chicago as a global, diverse city contrasts with the Trump admin's ongoing assault on immigrants. observer.com/2025/11/art-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
got to write about the Chicago Architectural Biennial, and how its vision of chicago as a global, diverse city contrasts with the Trump admin's ongoing assault on immigrants. observer.com/2025/11/art-...
Here’s the original Reuters : www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 7, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Here’s the original Reuters : www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
In 1954, Dorothy Martin predicted an apocalyptic flood and promised her followers rescue by flying saucers. When neither arrived, she recanted, her group dissolved, and efforts to proselytize ceased....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
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If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
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Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.
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This is a classic line!
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
This is one of our biggest arguments: that OpenAI is vampirizing universities for the cachet and legitimacy that affiliation with higher education affords
October 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is a classic line!
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
“It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”
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This is how you blurb
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is how you blurb
Yeah I’d be like, “are you sure?” 500 times.
I just can’t imagine being the guy running the backhoe.
a live look this morning at the demolished East Wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Yeah I’d be like, “are you sure?” 500 times.
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what i wouldn't give to see that prompt
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
what i wouldn't give to see that prompt
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@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social shares his favorite political blog post of all time, and gets into how blogging made writers get to the damn point. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
This Post Should Have Been Shorter
My favorite political blog post of all time was published by Jim...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social shares his favorite political blog post of all time, and gets into how blogging made writers get to the damn point. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/this-...
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🚨🍐 Important thread 🚨🍐
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
🚨🍐 Important thread 🚨🍐
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Ad placement for the win.
(I hesitate to even joke but hopefully it will draw attention to this abhorrent bullshit from the Trump administration.)
(I hesitate to even joke but hopefully it will draw attention to this abhorrent bullshit from the Trump administration.)
October 20, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Ad placement for the win.
(I hesitate to even joke but hopefully it will draw attention to this abhorrent bullshit from the Trump administration.)
(I hesitate to even joke but hopefully it will draw attention to this abhorrent bullshit from the Trump administration.)
NBER is out with a new study that basically says for each extra kid you have, it takes off 5 months of life for mom, 3.3 months for dad. But the title of the study is a world-record attempt at positive thinking: Children Are Bridges to Heaven [!]... www.nber.org/papers/w3437...
Children Are Bridges to Heaven: The Effects of Fertility on Later-Life Mortality
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
NBER is out with a new study that basically says for each extra kid you have, it takes off 5 months of life for mom, 3.3 months for dad. But the title of the study is a world-record attempt at positive thinking: Children Are Bridges to Heaven [!]... www.nber.org/papers/w3437...
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
This is such a metaphor/character study in one.
The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is such a metaphor/character study in one.
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J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)
A board advisor on that $1T Musk Tesla pay package is out with a defense. Leave aside the various ways of repeating "Musk is a singular genius" (yawn) it ends here, which is precisely what he knows the board and Musk led a wholesale change in Delaware corporate law this year to make far harder:
October 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A board advisor on that $1T Musk Tesla pay package is out with a defense. Leave aside the various ways of repeating "Musk is a singular genius" (yawn) it ends here, which is precisely what he knows the board and Musk led a wholesale change in Delaware corporate law this year to make far harder:
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I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I watched The Alabama Solution on HBO tonight. An amazing piece of documentary filmmaking that needs to be seen far and wide.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.