The Woke Street Journal
This may be the dumbest idea I have ever heard. Companies That Can’t Make Money The SEC pushes a plan to misallocate capital by buying land and taking it out of productive use.-WSJ
NACs would register to go public on the NYSE. The money raised would purchase land and effectively lock it away from human impact. Grazing, energy extraction and other economically critical activities would disappear on NAC-protected land. Farmland used to feed the nation and world would go back to natural landscape, erasing human activity. The resulting conversion of investor money into unusable wildlands has the potential to be one of the most significant misallocations of capital in history.
Conservative consumer group warns of 'woke' companies to avoid this Black Friday-Washington Examiner
Businesses should reject ESG and get back to basics-Washington Examiner
But many on the "woke" Left have a different focus. Their priority is to implement so-called environmental, social, and governance, or ESG, initiatives. This set of goals prioritizes social and political activism above all other factors. Whether it’s climate policy, race relations, or radical gender ideology, ESG has begun to displace the traditional business principles upon which successful companies were founded.
ESG Branding Is Disappearing on Wall Street-WSJ
Sustainable funds lost $14 billion so far this year, according to Morningstar. At least six funds announced they would drop their ESG mandates this year, while another 32 will close, according to data compiled by Morningstar and The Wall Street Journal.
Or is it? Is the ESG Craze Really Fading?-The Big Picture
"Billions upon billions of taxpayer dollars meant for infrastructure projects are tied to woke initiatives that are more focused on dismantling America’s infrastructure in the name of ‘equity’ and ‘climate change’ than building roads, bridges, and highways to connect the country," the memo states.
Not like the world is a dangerous place or anything. Biden’s Pentagon Slated To Spend Nearly $270 Million On Diversity Agenda-Daily Wire
A search committee seeking a professor of military history rejected one applicant “because his diversity statement demonstrated poor understanding of diversity and inclusion issues.” Another committee noted that an applicant to be a professor of nuclear physics could understand the plight of minorities in academia because he was married to “an immigrant in Texas in the Age of Trump.”
DEI won't die easy at Texas A&M, but Blaze News report demonstrates there's hope yet-The Blaze
"The innocuous sounding notion of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others," said the memo, reportedly penned by the governor's chief of staff, Gardner Pate.
Iowa Board of Regents Votes to Curtail DEI in State Universities-Breitbart
The recommendations include eliminating university-wide “DEI functions that are not necessary for compliance or accreditation” and reviewing “all college, department, or unit-level DEI positions to determine whether DEI specific job responsibilities are necessary for compliance, accreditation, or student and employee support services.” It also calls for the review and possible elimination of “services provided by offices currently supporting diversity or multicultural affairs in other divisions of the university to ensure they are available to all students.” Per the National Review:
GWGB. ‘The Marvels’ Continues To Flail At Box Office, Earns Worst Second-Weekend Drop Of All Time-Daily Wire
Of course they did, if he succeeds then it doesn’t look good for them. Latin American Leftists Melt Down over Javier Milei’s Presidential Victory in Argentina-Breitbart
Wasn’t that the plan all along? Deep-Blue Santa Ana, California, May Give Voting Rights to Illegal Aliens-Breitbart
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is opening an investigation into Media Matters for "potential fraudulent activity" after X CEO Elon Musk accused the left-wing media watchdog group of manipulating data on the social media platform.
After a slew of advertisers, including IBM, Apple, Disney, Lionsgate and Paramount, fled X, formerly known as Twitter, Musk pledged to hit the watchdog group with a "thermonuclear lawsuit."
"Those who choose to remain blind to the injustice of allowing mediocre male athletes to become record-breaking female athletes are either incompetent or misogynists. There is no in between anymore," Riley Gaines told Fox News. "Women are being asked to smile and step aside and allow these men onto our teams all the while stripping us of opportunities, privacy and safety."
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