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[arturia-giallo]

英梨紗🐰 by H4L [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[bitchesgetriches]

Long-Term Disability Insurance Is a Necessity… and a Scam • Bitches Get Riches

Long-term disability insurance is shockingly exclusionary, temporary, and deceptively piggybacked on federal benefits you already have...

Long-Term Disability Insurance Is a Necessity… and a Scam

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[savabatcannon]

I miss Pyre

[justinspoliticalcorner]

The right's war on woke is coming for pension plans

Conservative Texas District Judge Reed O’Connor took time out of his packed schedule of trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act to hand do

Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:

Conservative Texas District Judge Reed O’Connor took time out of his packed schedule of trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act to hand down a genuinely unhinged decision. According to O’Connor, American Airlines violated federal law by offering 401(k) plans that included funds managed by investment companies with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) goals. It’s the newest—and dumbest—front in the war on “woke.”  The Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) requires people who manage retirement investments to act in the best interests of their participants. This is a good thing! It means that fund managers can’t put their own financial interests first and must diversify a fund’s investments to minimize the risk of significant losses.  This lawsuit arose when a former pilot sued American Airlines in 2023, saying it violated ERISA by mismanaging 401(k) funds. Was it because somehow the company lined its pockets with the hard-earned cash of retirees? Nope. Was it because the company’s 401(k) funds were performing terribly? Nope. It was because American Airlines hired BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager that oversees trillions of investment dollars, to manage its retirement funds. Several years ago, BlackRock started positioning itself as a leader in its focus on environmental sustainability in investing. In 2021, BlackRock, then the second-largest holder of Exxon stock, cast a proxy vote on behalf of activist investors who wanted climate-conscious directors on the corporation’s board.  Lest this make it sound like BlackRock was just one step away from partnering with Greta Thunberg or something, the company still has billions invested in fossil fuels and runs the world’s largest Bitcoin fund. It’s a fund manager, not Santa Claus. BlackRock also spent the last year retreating from its previous support for climate activism, which is unsurprising given that 11 red states recently sued over it.  The usual suspects, like Florida, Louisiana, and Texas, have also pulled state assets out of BlackRock, but the American Airlines lawsuit was the first successful attack on ESG investing in 401(k) plans. 

[...] Conservatives are treating the elimination of ESG and DEI efforts as if the boot of government is finally off their backs, allowing corporations to finally unleash their true potential. But these sorts of actions—committing to net zero emissions and ensuring diversity and equity in the workforce—weren’t the scary, woke socialist ideas of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or Nancy Pelosi. Rather, they’re actions that corporations took in an attempt to make themselves appear more attractive within a capitalist, free-market framework.  But conservatives are no longer interested in a free market—hence the screaming about “woke capitalism.” With Trump back in office, they’ll get to use the heavy hand of government to reward only the corporations that share Trump’s climate-denying, white supremacist, anti-trans views. 

The right’s war on ESG and DEI will have disastrous consequences.

[watabena]

Tsuki & Erisa (Fortnite)

[cloe8810]

^ I barely desinged this diva ^

[ellishyde]

since summer erisa's coming out, here's a drawing i did a while back! im still proud of it :)

[galaxy-alev]

About how Tariq has so much knowledge and various ailments

- Miss Erisa, would you allow me to observe the process of fixing the wheel?

- Get out of here, minstrel! I hate it when you standing over my shoulder!

- I beg your pardon, miss.

- Perhaps, Master Reader, you'd be interested to know what--

- What could be interesting about the dreary life of an exile? Dreariness is our only companion, and today the world is especially gray.

- I'm sorry to have distracted you from your philosophical thoughts.

*trying to find a place to rest, snagged a rope of herbs*

- Pardon my clumsiness, Master Doctor, I won't bother you aga--

- To hell with the barn grass! It's not much use anyway, but it'll take all day. I'm wondering whether it's better to cure a cough with phlever honey or slimy spores?

- I dare not interfere with your thoughts.

- Tariq, where are you going? Sit down! It's like living in a cemetery. Ten words all day! I'm forgetting what my voice sounds like. So, about the phlever honey...

*ready for another lecture on applied medicine*