Announce

President Trump announced a package of pardons during the final hours of his administration this evening and early morning. In the days leading up to the announcement, there was a large amount of speculation regarding who would receive clemency.

The list includes a wide variety of individuals, most prominently:

• Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist

• Elliott Broidy, former RNC finance chair

• Kwame Kilpatrick, former Democratic mayor of Detroit

• Randy Duke Cunningham, former Republican congressman

• Rick Renzi, former Republican congressman

• Robin Hayes, former Republican congressman

• Lil Wayne, rapper

• Kodak Black, rapper

The full list is available as a White House press release.

After previous reports indicated that he had conversations with his legal team on the matter, Trump does not appear to be planning to issue pardons to himself or members of his family.

##Submissions that may interest you

[Trump is reportedly just going up to people and asking if they want a pardon](https://theweek.com/speedreads/961947/trump-reportedly-just-going-people-asking-want-

https://twitter.com/IWDominateLoL/status/1357370106658119681?s=19

> Happy to announce that I have been given permission by Riot to Co-Stream LCS again! Really thankful that I can resume the co-streams and excited to move forward together with Riot and the LCS into the 2021 season. Co-streams will resume Friday LETS GO!!!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/hwpc0r

Dom was removed from the LPP and not allowed to co-stream on July 23, 2020 (195 days ago).

Here's the main thread sorted by controversial.

Some of the highlights:

The GOP is done. They’ve become the bitch of the far left Democrats. They think this will help them but it won’t. Next the left will go after them and then they’ll eventually eat their own starting with Schumer and Pelosi until the Democrat party is so far left they make AOC look like Reagan.

This user feels duped for the first time in 25 years.

Fuck him. I’ve been voting for him since I was 18. I’m 43. He’ll never have my vote ever again.

This person isn't concerned about Trump's legacy. (-39)

I seriously doubt that another bogus "impeachment" would harm his legacy a BIT... As far as I'm concerned, he is/was the BEST President this country has EVER had...

A user named ass-professional doesn't understand the meaning of irony when he accuses Democrats of a coup.

Need evidence for a conviction. There is no evidence Trump incited the violence. If they convict without evidence then we just witnessed a coup and became a banana republic.

This comment devolves into people in-fighting about budgets. (-52)

Yes yes how dare he hold a stalwart conservative position of not handing largesse from the treasury to the general public.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/biden-calls-for-quick-pandemic-relief-minimum-wage-increase

This is going to be interesting. On one hand, it may not pass due to Joe Manchin, but I think Biden will be proposing a $2-$3T stimulus this Thursday. He also supports another round of checks but this time for $2k. Based on the numbers, $400b of the “trillions” in stimulus is just on the $2k checks.

Rumors are he will also throw in a lot of clean energy and EV subsidies in there too. Possibly in the tens of billions.

Bull market 2021?

Hello, Ethereum world!

Reddit admin u/jarins here, with some exciting news to share today: Reddit has teamed up with the Ethereum Foundation to establish Reddit’s first-ever blockchain partnership!

As Reddit continues to grow with more than 50 million daily users and hundreds of thousands of communities, the platform has long maintained a decentralized ethos by empowering users to create, govern, and grow their own communities. Through this partnership, we will be increasing our commitment to blockchain, accelerating scaling and resources for the Ethereum ecosystem, and bringing the value and independence of blockchain technology to millions of redditors.

In many ways, this collaboration started with the Scaling Bake-Off that we hosted in this community with the Ethereum Foundation. In this new stage of our partnership, immediate efforts will be focused on bringing Ethereum to Reddit-scale production. Our intention is to help accelerate the progress being made on scaling and develop the technology needed to launch large-scale applications like Community Points on Ethereum. The scaling technology developed through this partnership will be open-sourced and publicly available for anyone to use.

We introduced Community Points last year to give more ownership and control back to users through decentralized technology. Built on Ethereum, Community Points represent a user’s ownership in a community and rewards them for their individual contributions (such as posts and comments). This project is our first attempt at utilizing decentralized technology to empower individuals to have a sense of accountability and more ownership in the communities that they create and contribute to. Community Points are currently in beta on the Rinkeby network and are being tested in r/CryptoCurrency and r/FortNiteBR.

Our blockchain efforts will be led by Reddit's Crypto team (hi!). We are currently hiring great backend engineers who want to build the decentralized Internet. If you’re interested in solving tough problems like scaling and bringing blockchain to millions of users, send me a PM or apply directly on Reddit’s careers page -- we’d love to talk to you!

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https://twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/1339722821761605632

>I have news!

>My recent job at Riot has been to help develop the League universe, which we’re going to need!

>Because it is time. My new job is to kick off a big (some might say massive) game that many of you, and many Rioters, have been asking us to create.

In case you think he's just misdirecting, other Rioters are responding more explicitly. And here's Ghostcrawler himself stating it as such.

It's been about time. World of Runeterra coming soon?

CONTEXT:

For those who don't know, in order to play multiplayer games on an Xbox, you have to pay to use Microsoft's online service Xbox Live.

Xbox Live's price - and whether it should cost a fee to play games online at all - has long been a subject of arguments among gamers. For some bonus drama, here's a comment section from 2007 arguing about it. And here's another one from 2009. Despite this, and despite the persistent rumors that Xbox Live will soon be free of charge, the price has remained the same for the last 11 years - $60 per year.

So with all that in mind, early yesterday morning Microsoft released an article titled "Update on Xbox Live Gold Pricing", in which they announced that instead of $60 per year, Xbox Live would now cost $60 per six months, effectively doubling the price.

People were not happy. Discussion threads filled with comments in /r/Xbox, /r/XboxSeriesX, and /r/Games. The vast majority of the anger was, of course, directed at Microsoft. But as with any event that generates multiple large threads of discussion, arguments were inevitable.

Some users in /r/Xbox sparked arguments by arguing that $10 a month is not a lot of money:

>That’s $10 a month. Same as PS Plus if you pay monthly. That doesn’t seem that wild.

>Still cheaper than Runescape, Netflix, World of Warcraft, and many other subscriptions. $10/month is not that bad 🤷‍♂️

>Gonna get me downvoted, I get it. But if $60 over the course of a year ($1.15 a week) is something you can't afford... You shouldn't be spending money on video games to begin with.

>[If you can't afford $10 a month, stop playing video games and put some effort into improving your