Texas divests $8.5 billion from BlackRock, citing firm’s ‘destructive’ ESG push
The state of Texas notified investment management firm BlackRock on Tuesday of its plans to cancel an $8.5 billion investment, citing the company’s “disruptive” environmental, social and governance initiatives. fox business report. Texas State Board of Education Chairman Aaron Kinsey told news outlets that the Texas Permanent School Fund, which previously invested in BlackRock, will […]
The destructive myth of ‘professional’ parenting
We have spent a century replacing what will never be replaced. Now let’s check the scoreboard. Today’s match pitted Progressive Era feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman against 21st century memoirist Rob Henderson in a close battle. As for me I’ll never get tired of saying it, Gilman told stories about children by telling the story […]
‘Burn, beetle, burn’: South Dakotans torch an effigy of destructive bug | South Dakota
It has become an annual winter tradition. Hundreds of people carrying torches set a giant wooden beetle statue on fire in Custer, South Dakota, to raise awareness about the devastating effects of the pine beetle on the Black Hills forestlands. Fireworks are set off and a beetle is set on fire during the 11th annual […]