How are teachers, firefighters and other public workers funding billionaires’ private jet travel? Why are Wall Street firms pretending they are based in Fort Worth, Texas? Who actually got tax increases from all those trickle-down tax policies? Which corporate CEO got an epic grilling at a Senate hearing? How can you be a better person online?
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BILLIONAIRES’ PRIVATE JET TRAVEL, PAID FOR BY PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: Last year, regulators issued a rule requiring hedge funds and private equity firms to better disclose how they spend investors’ money. Since so many of these investors are public pension funds, the rule was effectively designed to prevent Wall Street from stealing the retirement savings of teachers, firefighters, and other public-sector workers. But then Wall Street lobbyists got a Trump-packed court to block the disclosure rule. Now, research shows that Wall Street firms are often using investors’ money — read: pensioners’ money — to finance executives’ private jet travel.
I tried clicking on the Jessica Wildfire post. I only see the first part. A box on the right side of the page says "Something went wrong. Try reloading." After reloading it's still the same. I tried a different browser and got the same result.
It was her X profile where she had written rules of etiquette. I think occasionally "bad behavior" online is just a way for stressed folks to blow off a little steam once in a while. Sometimes it feels like everyone is trying to divide people up against somebody else and it is just plain exhausting. Sometimes even normally mature people (in real life) blow off a little steam online "behaving a bit badly". No journalist could survive the profession without having very thick skin. Researching and writing would almost have to be their very favorite activities in life to continue to do so and take the inevitable abuse from random people online. I am sure back in the day before the internet it was no different. Walking down the street was probably a precarious event after researching and writing about corruption In politics. I just read that H.L. Mencken who seemed right about so many things, was against the New Deal of all things. I am sure he met with much opposition by readers around him. I'm assuming he did, I don't really know. I'm just saying that journalists need tough skins if they plan to survive in a tough landscape.
That's all as may be. I just wanted to hear what she had to say, but I couldn't see the full post, and when I clicked on her main Twit (or should I say X, which I think is Twitter's older brother Rex who ran away from home years ago) profile I didn't see this particular post in the listing at all.
Try the link again: https://x.com/JessicaLexicus/status/1803600211178127575 It works fine for me but it could be because I have an X account. If you don't have an account, it may not open correctly. I'm just guessing that may be the problem.