Democrats have invested more money attempting to get Stacey Abrams and Beto O’Rourke elected than any other non-presidential candidates in American history. Despite outspending their GOP opponents by more than 5X they are both expected to lose.

Beto O’Rourke and Stacey Abrams shot into the political stratosphere four years ago when the fresh-faced Democrats electrified the party on their way to better-than-expected showings in statewide races in deep-red Texas and purple Georgia. This year, they are struggling …

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Coindesk.com “journalist” who is heavily invested in the Solana ecosystem, writes an anonymously sourced article about supposed insider information about upcoming exchange listings of Solana tokens. Totally nothing wrong here, right?

by ShotBot https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/27/coinbase-close-to-listing-solana-ecosystem-tokens-sources/ I also checked their ethics policy, Coindesk has no restrictions on cryptocurrency trading habits of their journalists as long as they “honest” about their trades with management.

Last month, Chinese-owned Tencent invested heavily in Reddit. Now, they’re shadow-banning VPN users. This is a scary chapter in Reddit’s war on freedom.

by mrpeenut24_work https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b2zd0u/cant_login_10year_account_suspended_and_password/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b35ovl/2_accounts_banned_without_reason_cant_login_to/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b369x5/how_do_do_you_find_out_why_your_account_was/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b347l8/cant_access_account_changed_password_doesnt_have/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b3450c/cant_log_in_cant_change_password_terminated_and/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b34kpz/my_8_year_account_just_got_permanently_suspended/ edit: Some new links: https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b37hbf/my_account_is_banned_without_any_reason/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b3aotp/account_creates_years_ago_was_suspended_yesterday/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b363ex/account_suspended/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b33wn7/can_you_appeal_a_ban/ https://np.reddit.com/r/help/comments/b331j7/what_did_reddit_find_suspicious/

Is Fed Pumping Stocks To Keep Pensions Solvent? With pensions now 50% or more invested in stocks, it seems pretty obvious that one way to inflate away the looming pension catastrophe is for the Fed to inflate the stock market.

via investmentresearchdynamics: The pension crisis is inching closer by the day. @CalPERS just voted to increase the amount cities must pay to the agency. Cities point to possible insolvency if payments keep rising but CalPERS is near insolvency itself. It may …

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