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Zelensky urges maximum pressure on Moscow after massive Russian strike on Ukraine’s energy: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/zelensky-urges-maximum-pressure-on.html

U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela as Trump escalates pressure on Maduro regime, sources say (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/venezuela-us-military-strikes-maduro-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p5#a260103p5

Pressure is the point for Eberflus as Cowboys defense surges https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/02/how-matt-eberflus-transformed-the-cowboys-defense-after-the-bye/875672…

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/02/elon-musk-grok-porn…

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator
Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

'You cannot reward monsters' — US lawmakers demand increased pressure on Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/you-cannot-reward-monsters-us.html

Why Fernando Mendoza Is Ready for the Pressure of Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-why-fernando-mendoza-is-ready-for-pressure

Calibrated simulations for dynamic focusing of ultrasound through the temporal window #ultrasound

Calibrated simulations for dynamic focusing of ultrasound through the temporal window
Focused ultrasound can be delivered through the temporal window to modulate heterogeneously located brain areas. Acoustic simulations allow for safety assessments when dynamically targeting brain structures, but the mismatch between simulation and measured focal pressure can vary across the steerable range due to mechanically inaccurate assumptions made about the skull and transducer. Here, we describe efficient methods for simulation-measurement calibration using axisymmetric projections and s…

RE: https://velocipederider.com/@ruari/115983340866852067
@… An actual solution for both would be to pressure them …

Jim Leonhard Could Be the Cowboys' Best 2026 Hire https://insidethestar.com/jim-leonhard-could-be-the-cowboys-best-2026-hire

Very fortunate with the woodwork to once. Definitely could use some possession, if nothing else tha to relieve pressure.
#LFC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sounds of Blackness:
🎵 The Pressure, Part 2
#SoundsofBlackness
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kb2iRpS1fpiBKi6knf8q7

The office of Gavin Newsom, the California governor,
said his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos
was canceled under pressure from the Trump administration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/newsom-davos-trump?CM…

Please apply pressure to electeds, urging them to aggressively pursue state charges against ICE officers, in defiance of the FBI if necessary.
Many of them already want this. State AG is already taking steps to do this. Apply the pressure anyway; the pressure helps.
If you live in Minnesota:
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #MSP

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

Of course, economic pressure isn't the only tool we have. Diversity of tactics is critical. I'm not going to tell anyone not to throw buckets of screws into the parking lots and driveways of ICE facilities or blockading facilities with burning dumpstes. Even if i don't promote those types of tactics, we should all STFU if we see people doing them. We all have a place. There are things we can all do. Everything is on the table and it should be, because ICE agents will intimidate you, steal your car, and even murder you for just filming them.
You can cower in fear, or you can stand up and fight with everything you have. Which or those do you want to remember yourself doing?

If anything good comes out of the extreme makeover of the original Russian/American surrender proposal for Ukraine, it's of course unlikely that Putin will accept it. Increase the pressure, give Ukraine more military support.

“ A European diplomat said that troops from the Netherlands, Canada and Germany were also taking part.” , https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-allies-boost-greenland-military-presence-donald-trump-ramps-up-pressure/

Denmark and allies boost Greenland military footprint as Trump ramps up pressure
The deployment comes as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies talk of taking over the Arctic island.

The US is imposing visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/state-depart…

US bars five Europeans accused of censoring Americans
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints. Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not name them, identifying them only as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations. The five Europeans were later identified by Sarah Rogers, the under secretary of state for public diplomacy, in a series of posts on social media. They include a former EU commissioner and the leaders…

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Packers vs. Vikings: Where to watch Sunday's matchup, plus pick, odds and pressure on J.J. McCarthy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/packers-vs-vikings-where-to-watch-pi…

Re “apply the pressure anyway:” that’s advice I got from…Keith Ellison.
I was part of a citizen group pressuring him to vote for the ACA when he was in the House. He met with us, and gave us an impassioned speech about universal care and how the ACA was a good first step but insufficient, relating it to the less-remembered civil rights acts of the 1950s that laid the groundwork for the big one in 1964.
Somebody from the group finally asked him, “Why are we meeting with you? You’re already convinced!”
He replied (paraphrasing here): “I •need• your pressure. I need it even if I already agree. If you’re pressuring me, then I can get on the floor of the House and say ‘My constituents are beating down the doors of my office! This has tremendous support!’ I can tell my colleagues in private about how agitated voters are. If you apply pressure, I can pass that pressure forward. I need you to do it! •That• is why you’re meeting with me.”
And now Keith Ellison is MN Attorney General. He’s already started doing the right thing. Follow his advice, and apply that pressure!

Remember when Apple and Google removed the ICEBlock app and others because they considered ICE agents to be a vulnerable group? https://www.404media.co/google-calls-ice-agents-a-vulnerable-group-removes-ice-spotting-app-red-dot/

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

Backbone test. 
(They have the votes; do they have the spine? Pressure from us helps strengthen theirs.)
"Senate Democrats alone can halt funding for ICE. So far, the Democratic leadership has not stepped up. Only enormous pressure from their constituents will force them to show any backbone."

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign
Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign from Israel lobby groups that she believes aimed to silence her. Despite this, she remains unbowed.

EU and US pressure the Kremlin: money to Ukraine, sanctions on Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/eu-and-us-pressure-the.html

Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
BLAKE: Yes, there've been massive rocket attacks from space, ground assaults, every kind of attack. Control still operates untouched.
VILA: Armies can't do it, space fleets can't do it, but we can, is that it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/58

German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on record #Germany

German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on record
Germany's greenhouse gas emission cuts slowed sharply in 2025 as the North Sea experienced its warmest year on record, piling pressure Wednesday on the conservative-led government to boost climate protection efforts.

If they cave, the Democratic Party is done.
If you have Democratic senators, please, I urge you to call them and tell them to keep the pressure on Republicans going and not reopen the government until ACA subsidies are in place.

Pressure grows on No 10 as Burnham backs Tory call for social media ban for children | Social media | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/11/kemi-badenoch-says-tories-would-ban-under-16s-from-addictive…

"EU ministers break deadlock on CO2 emission cut by 2040 amid political pressure"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Climate #ClimateChange

EU ministers break deadlock on CO2 emission reduction by 2040
After months of political impasse, the revision of the EU's climate law was backed with significant flexibilities for member states to hit the 90% emissions reduction by 2040. Now the European Parliament needs to have a say on the bloc's climate target.

I'm trying out a new health app to try to replace Fitbit. The Fitbit app doesn't really do anything for me and costs $100 per year. I can get my smart scale and my blood pressure cuff to pipe data into the new app. I also bought a smart ring to pump data into it. I like this, so far.
#Health #Metrics #Fitness

Sanctions, Tomahawks, pressure: the new US strategy towards Russia #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/sanctions-tomahawks-pressure-the-new.html

"‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec

‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region

After pressure from Trump, Colorado gov. signals possible clemency for election denier Tina Peters (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/after-pressure-from-trump-gov-polis-signals-possible-clemency-for-election-denier-tina-peters/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p102#a260109p102

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rmounce/115938156235443117
Thomson Reuters has major operations in the Twin Cities, and it’s high time they became the target of a local pressure campaign for the support they provide to ICE.

Good. Hopefully it means that they hired a few good admins.
The worst thing to happen to email was providers of other services bundling email at prices less than it should cost to provide high quality service.
It has deprofressionalized email. The pressure on email operations to cost nothing has squeezed out high competence admins and left the largest operations mysterious black boxes to the people who run them.

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent Rackspace tells Ars that hosted email is still a part of its "mission." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Investors have pulled $3.5B from US-listed bitcoin ETFs so far in November, almost equaling the previous monthly record for outflows of $3.6B set in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/…

Bitcoin (BTC) Funds Set for Worst Month as Investors Yank $3.5 Billion
Exchange-traded funds investing in Bitcoin are heading for their worst month of outflows since launching nearly two years ago, piling yet more pressure on a jaded crypto market.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
SAULT:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After The Pressure
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Julia Jacklin:
🎵 Pressure to Party
#JuliaJacklin
https://pantsnco.bandcamp.com/track/pressure-to-party-julia-jacklin-cover-demo-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/13LsKYpr3ZNMTRu0Lo8Z7R

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed Monday to
fulfill a $36 million, multi-year contract with NPR
that it had yanked after pressure from the Trump White House.
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of
illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage.
The argument, part of a broader lawsuit by NPR and several stations against the Trump administration,
focu…

FIND A PUB
THAT NEEDS YOU
The government's signalled a potential u-turn on pub rates — but nothing's confirmed yet. Pubs still need your support. Find your local. See what they're up against. Buy a pint.
https://www.ismypubfucked.com/

"Europe's clean tech industry between Trump's policies and Chinese pressure"
https://www.cer.eu/publications/archive/policy-brief/2025/between-rock-and-hard-place-europes-clean-tech-industry

Europe's clean tech industry between Trump's policies and Chinese pressure
The EU needs a coherent clean tech strategy to fend off the US industrial & trade policy shock & Chinese market pressure.

🫧 An Innovative Solution Method for the Evaluation of CO2 Disposal in the Seafloor Environment
#climatechange

Oh, FFS. And here I thought EU leaders might have grown a spine. Guess I was wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/07/european-commission-ai-artificial-intelligence-act…

Economic pressure has always been the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. There's already a general strike being organized for this Friday.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/20/18883119.php
(Original release https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf)
This has moved quickly, and it can keep moving quickly. The more people organizing, the faster the regime will back down and (I think quickly) collapse.

Add to that, I had only ONE option for insurance after that, as no other company would sell me insurance with slightly high blood pressure. If for no other reason, this is why the ACA needs to work and be affordable. BTW, the cost of my treatment that they cancelled me over was about $10/month.

Raiders Minority Owner Tom Brady Receives Massive QB Warning https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-massive-fernando-mendoza-warning/

#HoldTheLine

Shutdown progress in doubt as Democrats grow emboldened from election wins
Elections this week that energized Democrats and angered President Donald Trump have cast a chill over efforts to end the record-breaking government shutdown, raising fresh doubts about the possibility of a breakthrough despite the punishing toll of federal closures on the country. Trump has increased pressure on Senate Republicans to end the shutdown — now at 37 days, the longest in U.S. history — calling it a “big factor, negative” in the poor GOP showings across the country. Democrat…

What Pocket Health, Amazon Prime Vision's new tool, teaches us about QBs, OL and defenses https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916237/2025/12/24/pocket-health-insights-amazon-prime-vision/

Ordered a refurb Samsung S20 FE from Newegg, arrived today. I question the "Grade A - Excellent" rating that Reebeio gave it. Has mars all around the edge of the case and the back. Also has what looks to be a pressure crack in the back panel next to the cameras, like someone sat on it while in some kind of protective case and just put enough weight on it to crack the phone case a tiny bit.
However, the screen looks perfect and it powers on and boots to initialization mode no …

BBC Director General Tim Davie says the broadcaster will stay on X to try to counteract a flood of global misinformation, despite pressure to leave (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan

❗️Russia continues the war. The response to this must be strong pressure! – Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/russia-continues-the-war-the.html

Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer laments lack of QB pressure...again https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-laments-lack-qb-pressureagain/bd333ea170f32526a39b3…

Medical Aid for Palestinians.
MAP is one of the 37 humanitarian aid organisations banned by Israel.
UK citizens - Please join the campaign to put pressure on Israel. Your MP can help by placing pressure on the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary to demand that Israel immediately reverse this decision and end all barriers to aid.
Email your MP: Stand against Israel’s ban on aid orgs -

Email your MP: Stand against Israel’s ban on aid orgs

Lindsey Halligan out as U.S. attorney following pressure from judges
Lindsey Halligan,
a Trump administration lawyer who was named head of a key U.S. attorney’s office in Virginia last year
with instructions to seek criminal charges against Donald Trump’s perceived political adversaries,
left her post at the Justice Department on Tuesday.

Halligan’s departure followed a pair of extraordinary moves by two federal judges
who issued court orders hours earlie…

Federal judge moves to replace Lindsey Halligan as U.S. attorney
The actions signal a breaking point for the federal bench in the Eastern District of Virginia after Lindsey Halligan was disqualified as U.S. attorney there.

Series A, Episode 09 - Project Avalon
TRAVIS: Ohh?
SERVALAN: Oh, so far I have resisted that pressure. But now, I need your reassurance that my confidence has not been misplaced.
TRAVIS: I think Project Avalon will silence the critics.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/174 B7B4

Einstein and Debye temperatures, electron-phonon coupling constant and a probable mechanism for ambient-pressure room-temperature superconductivity in intercalated graphite
E. F. Talantsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07460 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07460 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07460
arXiv:2511.07460v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recently, Ksenofontov et al (arXiv:2510.03256) observed ambient pressure room-temperature superconductivity in graphite intercalated with lithium-based alloys with transition temperature (according to magnetization measurements) $T_c=330$ $K$. Here, I analyzed the reported temperature dependent resistivity data $\rho(T)$ in these graphite-intercalated samples and found that $\rho(T)$ is well described by the model of two series resistors, where each resistor is described as either an Einstein conductor or a Bloch-Gr\"uneisen conductor. Deduced Einstein and Debye temperatures are $\Theta_{E,1} \approx 250$ $K$ and $\Theta_{E,2} \approx 1,600$ $K$, and $\Theta_{D,1} \approx 300$ $K$ and $\Theta_{D,2} \approx 2,200$ $K$, respectively. Following the McMillan formalism, from the deduced $\Theta_{E,2}$ and $\Theta_{D,2}$, the electron-phonon coupling constant $\lambda_{e-ph} = 2.2 - 2.6$ was obtained. This value of $\lambda_{e-ph}$ is approximately equal to the value of $\lambda_{e-ph}$ in highly compressed superconducting hydrides. Based on this, I can propose that the observed room-temperature superconductivity in intercalated graphite is localized in nanoscale Sr-Ca-Li metallic flakes/particles, which adopt the phonon spectrum from the surrounding bulk graphite matrix, and as a result, conventional electron-phonon superconductivity arises in these nano-flakes/particles at room temperature. Experimental data reported by Ksenofontov et al (arXiv:2510.03256) on trapped magnetic flux decay in intercalated graphite samples supports the proposition.
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Republicans put pressure on Johnson to advance congressional stock trading ban bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/19/congress/gop-pressured-stock-trading-ban-00659452
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p147#a251119p147

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
SAULT:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After The Pressure
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
The European Commission has proposed changes weakening EU privacy legislation and delaying parts of the AI Act to make the bloc more competitive globally.

I think my BambuLab A1 mini really struggles with certain types of filament that are not thick enough, whether it's the old, two-year-old white PLA or the wood filament. With a little pressure, the extruder pushes it through the nozzle, but it doesn't do so continuously on its own. #3dprinting #3dprinter

For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water.
But new research from Saarland University reveals that this
long-standing explanation is wrong.
Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis.
These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice,
creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near abs…

The real reason ice is slippery, revealed after 200 years
For centuries, people believed ice was slippery because pressure and friction melted a thin film of water. But new research from Saarland University reveals that this long-standing explanation is wrong. Instead, the slipperiness comes from the subtle interaction of molecular dipoles between ice and surfaces like shoes or skis. These microscopic electrical forces disorder the crystal structure of ice, creating a thin liquid layer even at temperatures near absolute zero. The discovery overturns n…

Versus: With two games left, Maxx Crosby looks to maintain high gear in Week 17 vs. Giants https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-with-two-games-left-maxx-crosby-looks-to-maintain-high-gear-in-week-17-vs-giants

I think we can actually prove that this constraint is the *only* constraint that can preserve freedom:
1. There will exist actors in a system who will wish to take advantage of others. Evolution drives survival and one strategy for increasing survival in an altruistic society is to become a parasite.
2. Expecting exploitative dynamics, a system needs to have a set of rules to manage exploitation.
3. If the set of rules is static it will lack the requisite variety necessary to manage the infinite possible behavior of humans so the system will fail.
4. If the system is dynamic then it must have a rule set about how it's own rules are updated. This would make the system recursive, which makes the system at least as complex as mathematics. Any system at least as complex as mathematics is necessarily either incomplete or inconsistent (Gödel's incompleteness theorem). If the system is incomplete, then constraints can be evaded which then allow a malicious agent to seize control of the system and update the rules for their own benefit. If constraints are incomplete, then a malicious agent can take advantage of others within the system.
5. Therefore, no social system can possibly protect freedom unless there exists a single metasystemic constraint (that the system must be optional) allowing for the system to be abandoned when compromised.
Oh, you might say, but this just means you have to infinitely abandon systems. Sure, but there's an evolutionary advantage to cooperation so there's evolutionary pressure to *not* be a malicious actor. So a malicious actor being able to compromise the whole system is likely to be a much more rare event. Compromising a system is a lot of work, so the first thing a malicious actor would want to do is preserve that work. They would want to lock you in. The most important objective to a malicious actor compromising a system would be to violate that metasystemic constraint, or all of their work goes out the window when everyone leaves.
And now you understand why borders exist, why fascists are obsessed with maintaining categories like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This is why even Democrats like Newsom are on board with putting houseless people in concentration camps. And this is why the most important thing anarchists promote is the ability to choose not to be part of any of that.

Trump Picks New Leader for Southern Command as Venezuela Pressure Grows (Helene Cooper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/politics/frank-donovan-southern-command-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p107#a251219p107

⚡US PRESSURE: White House demands surrender of UNOCCUPIED lands! Putin’s bluff and Afghan lessons: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/11/us-pressure-white-house-demands.html

Versus: With two games left, Maxx Crosby looks to maintain high gear in Week 17 vs. Giants https://www.raiders.com/news/versus-with-two-games-left-maxx-crosby-looks-to-maintain-high-gear-in-week-17-vs-giants

The timing of this act of piracy and theft by the USA's Trump regime is revealing: the day the Venezuelan coup supporter (who called for invasion of her country) incomprehensibly receives the Nobel peace prize.
It's theatre, but of an extremely ominous form.
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'
The move is a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
SERVALAN: If you tell me about the rendezvous, I will consider sparing your life.
KASABI: My life isn't yours to spare.
SERVALAN: Oh, but it is.
https://blake.torpidity.ne…

"60 Minutes” on Sunday plans to air a story about Trump administration deportations that was abruptly pulled from the newsmagazine’s lineup a month ago,
sparking an internal battle about political pressure that spilled out into the open.
In the story, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notoriously harsh CECOT prison.
When the segment critical of the administration was struck from the Dec. 21 episode on order of new CBS New…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
SAULT:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After The Pressure
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

US energy companies and several hedge funds were handsomely rewarded when markets opened on Monday after news of the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. 
The MSCI US Energy index,
which tracks a basket of American stocks with exposure to the energy industry,
was trading up 2.8 percent on Monday, widely outperforming gains in the broader S&P 500 and other global energy stocks.
The rally was an early reflection of inves…

Halliburton, hedge funds and Chevron: Big winners from Trump's vow to 'rule' Venezuela
US energy stocks rally after abduction of Nicolas Maduro while analysts warn Opec countries could face 'serious' pressure

A draft shows the European Commission plans to propose a simplification package on Nov. 19 to pause parts of its AI laws amid pressure from Big Tech and the US (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/af6c6dbe-ce63-47cc-8923-8bce4007f6e1

Ukraine war latest: Russia ramping up pressure on Myrnohrad as fight inside Pokrovsk outskirts continues: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/16/ukraine-war-latest-russia-ramping.html

The Supreme Court gave Trump a big redistricting win. But the fight is just getting started. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-redistricting-fight-indiana-pressure-00678789
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p144#a251205p144

License plate surveillance company Flock Safety faces bipartisan pressure from lawmakers and local organizers over its data handling and cybersecurity practices (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras
Lawmakers’ calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says.

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

Court chief comments on political pressure amid unprecedented challenges for anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/court-chief-comments-on-political.html

"Seven EU countries pressure European Commission to rethink 2035 diesel and petrol car ban"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Cars #Vehicles

Seven countries ask EU executive to revoke 2035 diesel and petrol ban
Pressure from EU countries, lawmakers and the automotive industry is likely pushing the European Commission to delay the revision of the bloc's ban on diesel and petrol cars by 2035.

ICEBlock's developer sues the Trump administration in federal court for First Amendment violations after Apple removed its app following White House pressure (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5631826/iceblock-app-lawsuit-trump-bondi

‘No need to hold referendums’ — Amid U.S. pressure, Ukrainians reject territorial concessions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/15/no-need-to-hold-referendums.html

Why the Rams and the Seahawks are The Athletic staff's most popular Super Bowl picks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6957534/2026/01/10/nfl-playoff-super-bowl-picks-rams-seahawks-bills/

This article is absolute insanity. The only way I can describe it is being from a Rabidly anti-Canadian American.
And in an overall tone of disrespect for the rule of law, autonomy, democracy, or progressive thought.
"In a strategy of the retrenchment, the dismemberment of Canada becomes a wise decision. Rather than allowing it to continue down a path of anti-American antagonism, the United States could support the Alberta and Quebec separatist movements. A successful secession by Alberta alone would cripple the federal fisc, and drive separatism in other regions due to the resultant decline in their equalization payments which comprises such a substantial part of their provincial budgets. In the end, British Columbia and a unified Maritime province would be admitted to the Union as Democratic states while Alberta and Saskatchewan would be admitted as Republican states; ensuring continued balance in the US Senate.
The rump of Canada, left with only one or two provinces, would finally be able to revise its constitution with ease. Under US pressure, the rump could become a freely associated state similar to Palau, with a new constitution reordering society along American lines. In time, perhaps it too could be annexed.”
#Canada #USA #CanPoli #CdnPoli #51stState #Separatism #Alberta #Quebec
https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/
(edit: sorry, wrong link previously)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
SAULT:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After The Pressure
#SAULT
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…

State Universities Are Scrambling to Appease the Bigoted MAGA Regime
From Oklahoma to Indiana to Alabama, state schools are bending over backward—suspending student magazines and even disciplining instructors—to preemptively satisfy the Trump administration.

'US acted on Maduro, why not Kadyrov?' — Zelensky quips that additional pressure will make Putin 'think twice': https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/us-acted-on-maduro-why.html

Mailbag: Why is the offense suddenly struggling? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-is-the-offense-suddenly-struggling

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Mylo:
🎵 Drop The Pressure
#Mylo
https://cobra303.bandcamp.com/album/mylo-drop-the-pressure-cobra303-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2VtxdAH96cGcj1QzjpbHjA

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
SAULT:
🎵 Good Things Will Come After the Pressure
#SAULT
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/good-things-will-come-after-the-pressure
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q3UUPU4Pl4zVsmIDsQxDU

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Julia Jacklin:
🎵 Pressure To Party
#JuliaJacklin
https://pantsnco.bandcamp.com/track/pressure-to-party-julia-jacklin-cover-demo-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/13LsKYpr3ZNMTRu0Lo8Z7R

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Julia Jacklin:
🎵 Pressure To Party
#JuliaJacklin
https://pantsnco.bandcamp.com/track/pressure-to-party-julia-jacklin-cover-demo-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/13LsKYpr3ZNMTRu0Lo8Z7R

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Kae Tempest:
🎵 More Pressure (6 Music Festival 2025)
#KaeTempest
https://open.spotify.com/track/0sMWdvSFBg1bVkzyszM819