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Disruptive protest helps rather than hinders activists’ cause, experts say
Japanese steakhouse in Florida closes after customers test positive for meth
Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee

The harassment extended to Comer sending "a virtually inedible, odiferous pizza" to the target's address, a "pizza-shaped threat" that caused the manager and their family to "legitimately fear... for their safety, as someone clearly was targeting them and knew where they lived."

Comer apparently failed to respond to the lawsuit, leading to a relatively open-and-shut default judgment and restraining order for violating Washington's cyberstalking, telephone harassment, invasion of privacy, and "nuisance" laws. Significantly, though, the judge in the case also found Comer financially liable for interfering with Bungie's "contractual relations" with its employees, as well as costly violation of the Consumer Protection Act.

Those in Income Based Repayment for 20+ yr: Biden forgives $39B in student debt for some 800k borrowers

The Education Department will notify eligible borrowers in the coming days.

Levine: Celsius Was Lying - Bloomberg

with one executive noting Celsius was “basically using user balances to pay user rewards.”

That’s the bad answer! There’s a name for that! If you raise money from customers promising them 17% returns, and then you don’t make enough money to pay those returns, and then you raise more money from new customers and use some of their money to pay the returns, that’s a Ponzi scheme. Maybe you don’t mean to do a Ponzi scheme, but if you go around saying “we use user balances to pay user rewards” surely you have some idea what you are doing.

Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty | The White House

I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility. ... not to exceed 3,000 total members at any one time, of whom not more than 450 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve,
- HN comments
- Biden signs order to call up 3,000 troops for Operation Atlantic Resolve in Europe.
US Completes Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction Operations