Transfigurations: A "Restaurant Apocalypse" Is Starting To Sweep Across America...more

A "Restaurant Apocalypse" Is Starting To Sweep Across America, And That Is Really Bad News For The U.S. Economy You can get a really good idea how the U.S. economy is doing by watching restaurants in your area. When the economy is booming, restaurant parking lots are full and chains are feverishly establishing new locations. But when the economy is struggling, restaurants get a lot less traffic and poor performing locations get shut down. Sadly, in 2024 it appears that a “restaurant apocalypse” has started to sweep across America.

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Deep Blue Sanctuary City Footage Shows Massive Shantytown, Crime In a startling revelation of the dire state of affairs in Oakland, California, footage has surfaced revealing a sprawling ‘shantytown’ that has taken root as the city continues to spiral into a cesspool of crime and squalor. Image

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One Million United Methodists Exit in One Day

United Methodism’s largest overseas jurisdiction has voted to quit the denomination in response to the church’s divorcing sex from marriage at its governing General Conference earlier this month.

The United Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast voted on May 28 to exit the denomination. In 2022, this conference reportedly had over 1.2 million members. So, its departure means over one tenth of United Methodism has in one day left the denomination. Oddly, United Methodist News Service reported the vote very briefly in an emailed news digest but as of today has no article on its website. Perhaps it will post a fuller account later.

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