NEW: @Meta, @Microsoft, @Coinbase and @Starlink join a Department of Justice-led operation to disrupt Southeast Asian scam networks, resulting in 63 arrests, 1.4 million account takedowns and $3M in frozen crypto assets.
June is recognized as PTSD Awareness Month, aimed at raising awareness about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the importance of treatment for those affected. This month encourages individuals to seek help and promotes understanding of PTSD's impact on mental health.
NOW: Mamdani says his admin will transfer ownership from bad landlords to non-profits.
“For buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards.
Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves.”
Had the best @PizzaHut in Kentucky till management changed to some you corp brown nosing scooter.
I get take out every so often, but I'm done with their buffet. Corporations need more of this not some bean counter accountant skimping every nickel.
🚨 MAN BUYS 80 PIZZA HUTS TO BRING BACK THE ICONIC VERSION AMERICA MISSED — AND PEOPLE ARE LOSING THEIR MINDS
Tim Sparks, president of Daland Corporation, owns more than 80 Pizza Hut franchises across the country, and he’s now turning many of them back into the old-school Pizza Huts millions of Americans grew up with.
While most restaurant chains keep replacing everything with self-checkout screens, gray walls, and sterile modern redesigns… Sparks is bringing back the version people actually remember:
• red plastic cups
• Pac-Man machines
• packed salad bars
• giant family booths
• Tiffany-style lamps hanging over the tables
And people are getting unexpectedly emotional over it.
Some of these restored “classic” Pizza Huts are now becoming top-performing locations because customers say it doesn’t just feel like pizza anymore…
It feels like stepping back into a completely different era of life.
Sparks says the mission is bigger than nostalgia. He wants to rebuild places where families actually sit together again, put their phones down, and talk the way they used to.
Now the internet is flooding the comments:
• “This feels more human than modern restaurants”
• “We didn’t realize how good we had it”
• “This is what childhood felt like”
• “Why does this make me emotional?”
Some customers are reportedly driving HOURS just to eat inside one because they say modern restaurants lost the feeling that made people love them in the first place.
Now people are asking:
Did corporations deliberately turn restaurants into cold, forgettable spaces... because real human connection was never the priority anymore?
📹: CBS19
BREAKING: After 7 failed attempts, the US Senate has advanced a measure that would require congressional approval for continued military strikes on Iran.
In a 50-47 vote, the Senate has now officially advanced the Iran War Powers Resolution.
THIS IS CRAZY
🇺🇸 Amazon $AMZN allegedly kept tariff-driven price hikes in place even after President Trump’s tariffs were ruled unlawful.
Now they’re being sued for that.
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I now wonder the tax implications on this concept.
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This is a historic divergence:
The ratio of the S&P 500 Information Technology sector to the S&P 500 index is up to a record 0.87.
This ratio has risen +50% since the 2022 bear market low.
Meanwhile, the number of employees in the information technology sector relative to total US nonfarm payrolls is down to 0.02, an all-time low.
Since 2022, this figure has declined -15% as the number of tech payrolls has dropped.
Over this period, the number of employees in tech has fallen -342,000, to 2.77 million, the lowest since February 2021.
Information sector payrolls have now declined for 16 consecutive months, the longest streak since the 2008 Financial Crisis.
The gap between the market and the economy has rarely been this wide.