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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and PM Mark Carney
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place (Josh Halliday/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/green-party-wins-gorton-and-denton-byelection-in-blow-to-keir-starmer
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p44#a260227p44

Why is Cowboys' Dak Prescott pushing for Week 18 start? https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-cowboys-dak-prescott-pushing-week-18-start/6d282a299ac46dee546083dd

In the DC area, some of us have always adored Sean Doolittle.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/28/fascism-is-here-now-the-us-athletes-pushing-back-on-trumps-america

‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America
World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

As an editor, I love it when an author takes the feedback we provide and engages deeply with it. This doesn't necessarily mean doing everything we ask - there are sometimes very good reasons for pushing back. I appreciate the humility involved in the exercise but watching a piece turn from not bad into something smarter, more incisive, better informed, and ultimately good if not great is the best part.

Jussi Nummelin will speak on 'Pushing Kubernetes to the Far Edge: IoT, AI Workloads, and Evolving Architectural Patterns' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/p

Seriously, it seems like every town got slammed and just gave up on
plowing sidewalks.
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-next-storm-city-can-concentrate-just-tad-more-crosswalks

Maybe with the next storm, Boston can concentrate just a tad more on crosswalks in what is allegedly America's most walkable city
Here we are, a week out from that 20-inch snowstorm and Boston streets are in pretty good shape - for people in motor vehicles. For people on foot - even if they're not pushing a stroller - or in wheelchairs, not so good. Read more.

Overuse is pushing the world toward ‘water bankruptcy’ https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/overuse-is-pushing-the-world-toward-water-bankruptcy/

Overuse is pushing the world toward ‘water bankruptcy’
Overuse and climate change are driving global “water bankruptcy,” with aquifers declining, glaciers disappearing and billions facing water scarcity, a UN report finds.

Sources: SpaceX is considering a potential merger with Tesla, an idea some investors are pushing, while separately exploring a tie-up between SpaceX and xAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-29/elon-…

US security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/us-security-guarantees-set-for.html

#Security #guarantees were discussed during Zelensky's two-hour meeting with Donald Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago in Florida, which ended without a breakthrough.
In the draft agreement, U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are outlined 👉for a period of 15 years,
with a possibility for extension…

US security guarantees set for 15 years, with Ukraine pushing for extension, Zelensky says
"I told (Trump) that we would like to consider guarantees for 30, 40, or even 50 years, and that would be a historic decision by president Trump. The president said he would think about it," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The climate crisis wasn't caused by ordinary people—so why are they footing the bill?
Two activists in France are pushing to change that. Their "Tax Their Billions" campaign is shifting public opinion toward making billionaires pay their fair share for climate solutions.
It's about accountability and justice in the transition we desperately need.

Ordinary people can’t keep paying for a crisis they didn’t create
Meet Chloé Sublet and Léa Renault, two activists in France fighting to make billionaires pay their fair share so the cost of the climate crisis doesn’t fall on everyone else

Because some of the replies, while good, have wandered a bit off the rails, please consider:
1. “We should study and learn from how Hypercard lowered the barrier to entry to programming.”
2. “Hypercard or something like it would be unsuitable for many / most modern applications.”
Please note that both these things can be true (and both are in my view). Upthread I’m pushing for (1). And…

🍗 Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
... as a🦊I approve!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/30/is-gen-zs-love-of-fried-chicken-pushing-britain-to-peak-pizza

Is gen Z’s love of fried chicken pushing Britain to ‘peak pizza’?
Competition intensifies as former chief of Domino’s says days of ‘massive growth’ are over

First flowers of spring in my orchard!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

The offenses of Trump’s second-term cabinet members tend to be ones of loyalty or sycophancy,
rarely of independent thought.
Whatever damage the secretaries inflict on their country or their reputations is done on the president’s orders and on his behalf.
In Trump’s first term, sacrificing cabinet members meant firing them, or pushing them to resign.
In the second term, it means keeping them in the job for as long as those shields retain even marginal power.
Th…

Opinion | Trump’s Shields Are Down
Personnel once meant policy; now it means flattery.

Feeling a bit excited to be sitting in on an online EU event featuring Mastodon's Philip Schroepel [@…] - about building sovereign digital public spaces - a key issue at this time.

Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p53#a260129p53

Newsmax segment accuses Turning Point event of pushing 'Third Reich' ideology - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/amfest-third-reich-turning-point/

It's wild how those `agents.md` files (or similar other prompt extensions) look like. Written as if you were talking to a person with punctuation and appeals to cognition and honesty.
You are seeding values to a stochastic system pushing it into desirable areas in a hypergraph, not teaching a colleague.

Apparently the SFBOS land use committee is voting today to make parklets worse. Public access being removed entirely. I can’t even keep up with all the terrible legislation they’re pushing through.
#sfpol

Imagine turning 22 during covid, you've just finished celebrating properly entering adulthood and think (even with Biden) that things might make a turn around for the middle to late 2020s globally, it wouldn't be fun but at least the economy will manage to hold up the facade of trying to work for now.
Now it's 2026, you're pushing 30 and damn near everything seems to want me homeless and dead.

thinking of #39c3 and all those people with cat ears. in retrospect it feels very unauthentic, none of them were sitting on the tables and pushing things off them. 🐱

How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7377579/ai-data-centers-people-movement-cover/

The People vs. AI
Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

I took a weekend today after pushing myself pretty hard the last 3 and especially yesterday. I now regret that. I slept well, felt fine when I woke up, didn't go do physical labor, and was bored, frustrated, and hungry all day.
People like me don't need breaks, we just need to work until we physically and mentally collapse, then recuperate. High speed, low drag, tailspin, crash, and phoenix.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft pushing for 18-game schedule, international game for every team https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6987162/2026/01/20/patriots-robert-kraft-18-game-schedule/

During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, Donald Trump demanded that lawmakers gathered in the joint session of Congress
“approve the SAVE America Act to stop illegal aliens [from] voting in our sacred American elections.”
Republicans stood and cheered.
“The cheating is rampant in our elections,” the president continued. “It’s rampant.”
The directive was built on years of Republican bloviating about a problem that doesn’t exist:
the notion that scores of…

The ‘Cataclysmic’ Reality Behind Trump and the GOP’s Voter ID Bill
Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to pass the SAVE Act, a voter ID bill that would bring a "cataclysmic" overhaul to the voter registration process.

Eine neue Staffel meiner ewigen Lieblingsserie #PushingDaisies, mit dem gesamtem Cast und wieder mit Showrunner Bryan Fuller? Das hatte ich nicht in den Karten. Yay!
https://deadline.com/2025/…

STM32MP2 XC7K160T PCIe test board progress! 66 unrouted nets in the power supply, but I think it'll fit.
There's something for everybody in this board:
* 0201 passives? Check (under the SoC)
* Lots of FPGA? XC7K160T is decently sized
* Lots of CPU? Dual A35s, a M33, a M0 , and a M4
* High speed? PCIe gen2 and a SFP that is theoretically capable of 8 GT/s but I'm gonna try pushing the FPGA a bit and see if I can make it do 10Gbase-R with acceptable BER…

Zelensky: US pushing for Ukraine-Russia ceasefire by June 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/zelensky-us-pushing-for-ukrainerussia.html

Sharyn Alfonsi, Scott Pelley's jobs are on the line after pushing back against Bari Weiss' CBS News shakeups: sources (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/media/sharyn-alfonsi-scott-pelleys-jobs-are-on-the-line-after-pushing-back-against-bari-weiss-cbs-news-shakeups-sources/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p40#a260123p40

Keep Android Open https://keepandroidopen.org/
"You, the consumer, purchased your Android device believing in Google’s promise that it was an open computing platform and that you could run whatever software you choose on it. Instead, as of September 2026, they will be non-consensually pushing an update…

"‘Exceptionally cold’: How a warming Arctic is pushing the US and Eastern Europe into a deep freeze"
#Arctic #US #USA #America

‘Warm Arctic, cold continent’: US braces for deep freeze
Meteorologists blame a stretched polar vortex, moisture and a lack of sea ice for the dangerous winter blast.

Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a "rolling infomercial" (Cameron Adams/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-forces-internal-chan…

CNN Rewrites Its Rules After Jake Tapper’s Biden Book Fiasco
The anchor is said to be “very, very unhappy” at the network’s new policy on self-promotion.

#Vietnam is pushing hard on the #semiconductor front, the first fab in view. 32 nm only, and few details on how it shall be built. But it remains a theme reshuffling funds, also supported by growth in #datacenter

This week’s post jumps from Super Bowl ticket prices to Oklahoma’s new steps toward transparency on asset forfeiture—and then into a long-running fight over casket sales and licensing. Sports, policy, and skepticism included. 🏈⚖️
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/foo…

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

what is emerging? what is in the way? — https://www.brichapman.com/p/what-is-emerging-what-is-in-the-way?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

The Elephants Remember: On Activism, Memory, and Holding the World Steady
Not all activism is about pushing forward. Sometimes it’s about remembering, holding, and steadying what’s worth saving. A reflection on emergence, tenderness, and what the elephants can teach us about endurance.

"The Pentagon is pushing four AI companies to let the military use their tools for "all lawful purposes," including in areas of weapons development, intelligence collection and battlefield operations, but Anthropic has not agreed to those terms and the Pentagon is getting fed up after months of negotiations, according to the Axios report."
Anthropic is not ruthless enough, apparently.

This could be long. It's hard to express my thoughts on this.
I had a bit of a heart to heart with my son today. My son is a student at Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He's 26. I'm white, his mother is third generation Mexican-American. To me, my kids are just my kids, I see myself and my ex-wife both in them. But he has been pushing me to realize for some time that isn't how the rest of the people around us see them. They don't see me in them at all, they ju…

Maybe it is time for me to go back to debian stable or some such. #Opensuse is pushing half baked solutions, which makes me sad after all those years of reliable services. On top, I don't understand this obsession for Wayland (which isn't up to speed on Desktop).

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/pentagon-pushing-ai-compa…

Some workers are going all in on AI while also questioning whether all that AI is good for the world. Others are effectively training machines to do their jobs better than they can. And many of the same workers who are racing to build the future are now wondering if the future they’re building has a place for them in it.

Trump Is Pushing To Include Risky Assets Like Crypto and Private Equity in 401(k)s | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-02-07/trump-pushing-include-risky-assets-crypto-and-private-equity-401ks

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

One of those problems where we know the solution - but there's no profit incentive, I guess. Wonder why the #ProLife community isn't pushing for solution.
World is short of nearly a million midwives, report warns

“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…

How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say is designed to protect immigrants in their neighborhoods and around Chicago.

Anthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..

Really surreal driving experience on the Frankfurter Allee today. Of course there was a lot of construction and rerouting, single lanes, delivery drivers blocking one etc. But the weirdest thing was the wandering traffic lights. Some workers where pushing the large temporary traffic lights around. It felt a bit like the bending cities in the movie "Inception"

Interestingly enough ghcr.io seems to remember old repo-names when pushing an image (probably as long as they originally came from my github). Once I renamed to sth new the build went through. It is also telling, in the larger scheme of things, that I was adding flatpak removal to the code, only to find out I previously wrote a just action for that 🤣 Keeping ourselves busy, are we? 😜

There are few good things to be said about US medical insurance or those awful Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager (PBM) companies.
However, the R's are pushing to create "savings" plans so that people can try to self-insure (probably many will buy some sort of additional "catastrophic" coverage.)
But there is at least one thing positive to say about existing medical insurers and PBMS - they have large numbers of people who go over doctor bills to see if they …

"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else"
Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth - BBC News

Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth
The chancellor's comments came after figures showed the UK economy saw a lacklustre end to 2025.

Bargeld rocks!
- Inklusion
- (Un)Abhängigkeit vom Stromnetz
- (Un)Abhängigkeit von Visa/Mastercard
Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/1436212/europe-is-rediscovering-the-v…

While Elon Musk is pushing hard to get the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant out, The vOICe vision BCI can grow organically, no matter how long it takes https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Applied psychohistory

The Austrian German term for managers who push bullshit like this is "dem hams ins Hirn gschissn", which translates as "someone shat into their brain".
(This about the thinly veiled workplace surveillance stuff [they call it "bonus system" or some shit] Meta is pushing on their employees.)

"Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages"
The purpose of a system is what it does.
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-bubble-wages-economy

Tech CEOs Say AI Is Ushering in an Age of Abundance, But Instead the Evidence Shows That It’s Pushing Down Wages
One economist explains why it's important for the AI bubble to burst as soon as possible, as the tech wreaks havoc on wages.

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back
From Super Bowl ticket shock to Oklahoma policy changes, this post reflects on football fandom, small-business fights, and why new transparency rules around asset forfeiture matter for civil liberties and everyday people more than most realize.

Football Dreams, Government Overreach, and Small Businesses Pushing Back – Bob Mueller
Super Bowl prices, Oklahoma reforms, and a look at why asset forfeiture transparency and licensing laws matter to regular people.

An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…

Airwallex data access concerns over about China-based staff accessing customer data
A senior executive warned about improper access of private customer details presumably “driven by [China]“, but received pushback due to revenue concerns.

And wasn't Charlie pushing for release of the Epstein files?
Erika Kirk's Corcoran Group link in focus amid company's Epstein links; ‘handled his assets…’ | Hindustan Times
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/erika-kirks-corcoran-group-link-in-focus-amid-companys-epstein-links-handled-his-assets-101771466880445.html

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For those of you curious - the Nazis downtown are getting absolutely humiliated.
The big anti-Islam protest downtown currently consists of about 8 protesters and hundreds, maybe thousands, of counter protesters. The counter protesters are currently walking/pushing the protesters off of City Hall grounds. True Minnesota hospitality at its best.
Jake Lang [right-winger who organized the event] and a handful of other racists/RW propagandists are surrounded by about 50 cameras and some antifascists chanting him down. A banner the group arrived with has been broken.
Currently has only about 5 supporters, and is being drowned out by counter protesters
The group led by Jake Lang tried to get inside Minneapolis City Hall, but the building is closed, as it is every Saturday.
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(This is all gathered from a bunch of different online sources; sorry I can’t link back to all of them, haven’t been keep track properly as I gather, but you can find more primary sources and video, I’m sure)
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As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates,
two GOP lawmakers
-- who’ve taken millions from financial interests
-- are pushing legislation to override those protections nationwide
https://www.levernews.com/bank-backed-republicans-move-t…

Bank-Backed Republicans Move To Gut Interest Rate Caps
As states moved to cap sky-high interest rates, two GOP lawmakers who’ve taken millions from financial interests are pushing legislation to override those protections nationwide.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/trump-anti-environment-agenda-pushback
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, re…

NFL pushing for performance-based compensation as part of new CBA with referees https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6879706/2025/12/10/nfl-referees-officials-collective-bargaining/

Ukraine seizes initiative along 40-km front, pushing Russians back over 9 km amid Starlink blackout: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/17/ukraine-seizes-initiative-along-km.html

Massachusetts is about to see major savings from clean energy. A new analysis shows the state's SMART 3.0 solar-plus-storage program could save ratepayers $313 million annually by 2030.
The key? Pushing out inefficient natural gas plants, cutting reliance on fossil fuels during winter, and slashing 1.6 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

Solar and storage program forecast to save all Massachusetts ratepayers $313 million per year
Solar plus storage can also offer winter reliability improvements and limit gas consumption, finds a report from Synapse Energy Economics and the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Cable TV networks canceling daytime talk show staples The Kelly Clarkson Show and Sherri show how they are now struggling to compete with video podcasts (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news…

Talk Is Cheap, Talk Shows Are Not: Daytime TV’s Big Problem
Sky-high production costs and waning audiences are pushing hosts off the dial. Video podcasts may be the final blow to the format.

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-elon-musk-is-

Good video by the @… folks over on TikTok:
So now Google (with the AI detection tool) is now selling the antidote for the poison they’re pushing down everyone’s throats.🙄

They’re pushing their lawsuit to happen fast: filing today, asking for court hearing on emergency injunction tomorrow

Minnesota’s coalition is demanding:
1: ICE must leave Minnesota now.
2: Renee Good’s killer, Jonathan Ross, must be held legally accountable.
3: No additional federal funding for ICE in the upcoming budget.
“These are moral common sense for a state that values truth, freedom, and life.”
https://

Grok Is Pushing AI 'Undressing' Mainstream (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-pushing-ai-undressing-mainstream/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p143#a260106p143

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
clipping.:
🎵 Keep Pushing
#clipping
https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/keep-pushing
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZyfKvS2z4so0qtoudfyI0

Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/rampant-ai-de…

‘Nobody Likes Erika’: Erika Kirk’s Pageant Friend Blows the Whistle on Pushing TPUSA's ‘Push Through, Grieve Later’ Motto After Charlie's Passing
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/02/14/erika-kirks-pageant-friend-blows-the-whistle-on-tpusa-after-charlie-kirks-passing/

Day of Truth and Freedom
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:a4wzpl7hpxvvntj6hatvuhlw/post/3mczfkmy5ec2v

The term "AI" is worse than useless because it hides more than it explains. Mozilla Firefox's "AI killswitch" shows how
(Original title: Hiding behind translations)
https://tante.cc/2026/02/03/hiding-behind-translations/

Hiding behind translations
After a lot of turmoil and their most vocal user base protesting about how Mozilla keeps pushing “AI” into the browser in many weird ways they now released the “AI Killswitch” they have been talking about for a while. Which is good. Those features should have been “opt-in” from the start and it’s kinda weird […]

The Junior Congressman Who's Pushing Republicans on Epstein (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/politics/robert-garcia-epstein.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p8#a251219p8

Residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods,
leading to days of confrontations and protests.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mcfdjwcxa524

NBC News (@nbcnews.com)
Residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods, leading to days of confrontations and protests.

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

Sources: top Monzo shareholders, including Accel and Iconiq, are pushing to oust the fintech's Chair Gary Hoffman after the surprise departure of CEO TS Anil (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1487940f-03ed-40b9-a19e-da1b657ff37a

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …

Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution
“This is rogue state behavior,” one expert said.

North Korean hackers stole a record $2.02B in crypto in 2025, a 51% YoY rise that takes its cumulative stolen total to $6.75B; individual wallet hacks hit 158K (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/crypto-hacking-stolen-funds-2026/

2025 Crypto Theft Reaches $3.4 Billion
North Korean hackers stole $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, pushing their all-time total to $6.75 billion.

A new Trump administration program is sidestepping the regulatory system that's overseen the nuclear industry for half a century.
The program will fast-track construction of new and untested reactor designs built by private firms,
with an explicit goal of having at least three nuclear test reactors up and running by the United States' 250th birthday, July 4, 2026.
If that goal is met, it will be without the direct oversight of America's primary nuclear regulat…

Trump's rush to build nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries
A new program at the Department of Energy is pushing the development of nearly a dozen new reactor designs at breakneck speed.

Chinese AI chipmaker MetaX's shares jumped up to 755% in its Shanghai debut after a heavily oversubscribed $585.5M IPO, pushing its market cap past $42B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/china-ch…

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/technology/anthropic-super-pac-ope…

Exactly one year before Dr King was assassinated, on 4 April 1967,
he gave his famous “Beyond Vietnam” speech at Riverside church in New York City.
More than 3,000 people were in attendance.
At the time, King had come under intense fire for having renounced the Vietnam war;
his outspokenness put him at odds with Lyndon Johnson,
who felt King should have been indebted to him for his efforts in pushing through civil rights legislation.
It also put King at …

Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…

Republicans Say Trump’s Greenland Plan Is “Dumbest Thing” Ever
At least a handful of Republicans in Congress are pushing back against President Trump’s quest to take over Greenland.

Policymakers behind key state AI bills scoff at Trump's EO; some GOP governors are pushing ahead with their own AI bills; Steve Bannon says Sacks misled Trump (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-states-defiant-ai-executive-order

States defiant in face of Trump's AI executive order
States are forging ahead with AI laws despite President Trump's new executive order aimed at reining them in.

Companies are updating insider trading policies to cover prediction markets; Kalshi and others are pushing for federal oversight, including of insider trading (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/polymark…

Polymarket Bets on OpenAI, Google Raise Insider Trading Suspicions
Over the past week, a handful of accounts on Polymarket, the predictions site, bet OpenAI would release a new large language model by December 13. On Thursday December 11, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, and four of these accounts together made over $13,000, according to the trades displayed on their ...

Trump wants to put U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico to
fight "drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum,
Trump has been pushing for
“the participation of U.S. forces,”
even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that the Trump administration prefers to send
either Special Forces (gre…

Trump Pushes for U.S. Troops in Mexico After Venezuela Coup
The Trump administration is pressuring Mexico to let troops in to fight cartels.

Trump will do anything to grab power and prepare for dictatorial rule
He now floats the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Mexico
"to fight drug cartels",
once again reinforcing his complete disregard for the concept of state sovereignty.
According to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Trump has been pushing for
"the participation of U.S. forces” even though Mexico says it’s not necessary.
Nonetheless, The New York Times has reported that…

Trump Pushes for U.S. Troops in Mexico After Venezuela Coup
The Trump administration is pressuring Mexico to let troops in to fight cartels.

Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/ai-…

Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/instacart-algori…

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ
The findings are the latest example of how the notion of a single price is breaking down in the digital age, a trend economists say could be pushing up some prices.

Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…

Nicole Porter: The US is ‘by far the world’s number one jailer’
“There really isn't an issue with mass incarceration in other countries,” Nicole Porter of The Sentencing Project tells us. “The United States by far is the world's number one jailer.”

A profile of Max Tegmark, the physicist pushing to halt AGI development, who was subpoenaed by OpenAI over the Future of Life Institute's past ties to Elon Musk (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/who-is-max-teg