GOING WOKE

The Department of Labor finalized a rule Tuesday that explicitly permits retirement-plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental, social and governance (ESG) features when selecting investments or meeting shareholder demands. The rule, first proposed in October 2021, essentially reverses two rules advanced under the Trump administration. One of the Trump-era rules said retirement-plan … Read more

GloriFi, an “anti-woke” fintech startup backed by, among others, Peter Theil, is shutting down weeks after launching its app after failing to secure funding. In a notice on its website, the Texas-based outfit says it “has experienced a series of financial challenges related to startup mistakes, reputation attacks, the declining economy, and multiple negative media … Read more

A Texas fintech company that marketed itself as an “anti-woke” alternative for “pro-freedom” Americans has shut down. GloriFi, based in Texas, made its debut in September, allowing customers who felt Wall Street was too liberal to open checking and savings accounts and apply for credit cards. Less than three months later, however, the bottom fell … Read more

Nearly two years after Twitter banned former President Donald Trump’s account for inciting the January 6 Capitol Hill riot, the social media platform’s new leader Elon Musk has reinstated him. Musk announced over the weekend that he’d be restoring Trump’s account following an informal poll in which 15 million users participated, the majority of whom … Read more

Georgia Democratic senator Raphael Warnock steered $16.4 million in federal earmarks to a project that benefited the co-owner of his controversial low-income apartment complex. The funding was intended to construct a trail connecting a residential and commercial complex known as “Pittsburgh Yards” with other portions of Atlanta’s BeltLine. The developer of Pittsburgh Yards is Columbia Ventures, part … Read more

Monday, November 21, 2022 19:57 Olympic legend Caitlyn Jenner lambasted the “woke state of Washington” on Monday for instituting policies that allow a biologically male student to dominate female track competitors, despite lagging behind in 72nd place against men before joining the all-female team. “We have to keep it fair,” Jenner, a Fox News contributor, … Read more

EXCLUSIVE: NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen’s Cloud Nine Productions (Woke) has sold four projects, two comedies and two dramas, at CBS. The network is developing Family Insurance, a single-camera Latinx family workplace comedy co-written, executive produced and starring Al Madrigal; Mixed Signals, a single-camera romantic comedy from writer Liz Thompson inspired by her … Read more