Odds and Ends — 28 December 2024

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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, Business, and Debt:

Bitcoin Kimchi Premium Spikes as South Korea's Political Turmoil Escalates

IRS issues rules on digital asset reporting, says front-ends are brokers

DenyDefendDepose:

https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1872709646269694294
- kenklippenstein

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

COVID-19 Takes a Greater Toll on Kidneys Than Pneumonia

Politics:

Trump Might Try to Use Military Bases for Deportation Effort

Donald Trump’s team is looking at using military bases to detain migrants and military planes to boost deportations, the president-elect’s incoming border czar Tom Homan said.
Said Homan: “It’s something that’s certainly on the table. We’re waiting to see what Congress is going to give us for funding.”

The Posse Comitatus Act says hello.

https://twitter.com/chrismanfrank/status/1872498084548375029
- chrismanfrank

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1872640163173847334
- SethAbramson

https://twitter.com/ZacMabry/status/1872365962881855850
- ZacMabry

https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1872718643194442032
- itsJeffTiedrich

U.S. Pushed for Retraction of Famine Warning in Gaza

A lead organization monitoring for food crises around the world withdrew a new report this week warning of imminent famine in north Gaza under what it called Israel’s ‘near-total blockade,’ after the U.S. asked for its retraction…
The rare public challenge from the Biden administration of the work of the U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning System, which is meant to reflect the data-driven analysis of unbiased experts, drew accusations from aid and human-rights figures of possible U.S. political interference.

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1872591836117958996
- bayraktar_1love

Russia-linked cable-cutting tanker seized by Finland ‘was loaded with spying equipment’

https://twitter.com/golub/status/1872412355948364071
- golub

Elderly Student Loan Borrowers Seek Relief

In the waning days of the Biden administration, activists are urging the Education Department to discharge the student debt of older borrowers who they say are in no position to repay. They say the department could use a little-known federal statute that considers a person’s ability to pay within a reasonable time and the inability of the government to collect the debt in full.
There are 2.8 million federal student loan borrowers aged 62 and older with a total of $121.5 billion in debt, more than 726,300 of them over the age of 71, according to the Education Department.