Odds and Ends — 28 December 2024

in oddsandends •  19 hours ago


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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

    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
    https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1872640163173847334
    https://twitter.com/ZacMabry/status/1872365962881855850
    https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1872718643194442032

    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

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

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

    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.

    https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1872732518853874149
    https://twitter.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1872684949629014149

    Republicans Are Skeptical of Trump’s Idea to Privatize the Postal Service

    Serendipity:

    https://twitter.com/MAstronomers/status/1872452337467355253

    The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?

    https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1872501875997831625

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