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"Gaza is our show": U.S. pushes its plan over Netanyahu's objections (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/17/gaza-phase-two-netanyahu-trump-board
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p64#a260117p64

Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively "worthless" (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/amazon-says-saks-investment-is-worthl…

Amazon threatens ‘drastic action’ after Saks bankruptcy, says $475M stake is now worthless
Amazon invested $475 million into Saks's acquisition of Neiman Marcus. It wants a federal judge to reject Saks's bankruptcy plan because it harms creditors.

In the meantime, please note carefully the rhetorical deception Republicans are playing in the Senate:
They are whining that Democrats are holding up funding for the whole DHS because “they’re angry about this incident” (meaning the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti) but “There are thousands of arrests that are happening every day that are happening by the book” (i.e. without a murder).
Deception: because the objection isn’t just the two murders; it’s the utterly reckless, unconstitutional, authoritarian behavior of ICE that Good and Pretti were protesting when ICE murdered them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/dhs-funding-blocked-senate-democrats

Hegseth:
"The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here.
They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement.
No more."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgdt3r65qn2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

"Face Š l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience"
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/03/01/face-a-l-ia-generative-des-enseignants-optent-pour-l-objection-de-c…

Face à l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience
Quelque 2 800 enseignants et chercheurs ont signé un manifeste contre l’intelligence artificielle générative, qu’ils considèrent être un gouffre énergétique alimentant des usages incompatibles « avec les valeurs de rationalité et d’humanisme » de l’université.

How did the Council approve the #Mercosur agreement, exactly?
«EU capitals now have until 5 p.m. on Friday to lodge any objections and formalize the vote. This so-called written procedure»
https://www.

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years | AP News https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4

The UK is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years
Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords. Late Tuesday the Lords dropped objections to a bill passed by the House of Commons that removes dozens of dukes, earls, and others who inherited seats in the unelected upper chamber. The chamber currently has more than 800 members. The vast majority are now “life peers” appointed by the government, but roughly 1 in 10 members are currently hereditary peers. A previous Labour gov…

The European Commission sends a statement of objections to Meta over WhatsApp blocking rival AI chatbots, warning it will take measures to avoid "serious" harm (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

My joke last week, at the suggestion Anthropic relocate to the UK, was that it would be contingent on its objection to mass-surveillance not being extended to UK citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx7915nn8qo

Sir Sadiq invites embattled AI firm Anthropic to expand in London
The letter from London's mayor came as the US moved to designate the company a supply chain risk.

Besides the obvious objections, I find it deeply ironic that Claude Code would send me an email thanking me for my efforts towards simplicity in software.