We describe two recent developments regarding the diffuse interstellar medium. One involves the 'Leo Cloud', a nearby, very cold and very high-pressure sheetlike cloud that resides in the 'Local Bubble'. The Local Bubble was originally discovered from X-ray emission from its hot gas, but it is now thought that it does not, in fact, emit X-rays, nor does it contain hot gas. So what keeps the highly overpressured Leo cloud confined? The other derives from the recent availability of Faraday Rotation measurements with angular resolution about 1 degree. These reveal spectacular magnetic structures in the high-latitude ISM, and also show surprising magneto turbulent behavior in the edge of the Eridanus/Orion superbubble.