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It won't stop with gas stoves - by Tom Knighton
Why the Right Can’t Beat ESG | Compact Mag

In the 1980s, a failed Republican Senate candidate named Robert Monks became administrator of the Office of Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs at the Department of Labor. Monks worked to change proxy-voting rules to allow fund managers, instead of the underlying beneficial owners, to vote the shares they held on behalf of investors. Notably, Monks then left the government to found Institutional Shareholder Services, or ISS, one of the leading proxy advisers making recommendations on how institutional managers should vote their shares.
Sorry, media, the great reset is real

Apparently a different universe than "twitter files": What the Jan. 6 probe found out about social media, but didn’t report - The Washington Post

committee leaders declined to delve into those topics in detail in their final report, reluctant to dig into the roots of domestic extremism taking hold in the Republican Party beyond former president Donald Trump and concerned about the risks of a public battle with powerful tech companies, according to three people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the panel’s sensitive deliberations.

Congressional investigators found evidence that tech platforms — especially Twitter — failed to heed their own employees’ warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms and bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives, particularly then-president Trump, out of fear of reprisals. The draft report details how most platforms did not take “dramatic” steps to rein in extremist content until after the attack on the Capitol, despite clear red flags across the internet.

Founders of bankrupt Three Arrows Capital pitch platform for crypto debt claims
- Debt as money! We could get all the "crypto bro" companies together and make a combine to regulate the industry. Get the government to recognize it and back it with the force of law. Perhaps we could call it the "Federated Reserve System"
Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism