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‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump Country

“You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, and water restoration, and healthy forests,” Zink said. “People in Washington D.C., on the West Coast, East Coast — they don’t understand what that means to us out here.”

Meanwhile people from all those places yelling at him that Trump will cut all those things and to not vote for that

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AOCIA lying about voting to send weapons to Israel

As always, reality is more complicated. She voted against the bill. The amendment was worthless anyway.

https://www.jta.org/2025/07/21/politics/aoc-faces-backlash-vandalism-after-voting-against-cutting-us-aid-from-israels-iron-dome

In a post on X Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez defended her vote against the amendment, writing that Greene’s amendment “does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza,” which she suggested she would oppose.

“I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end. That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been established,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez. “I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza.”

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Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects | It’s the third such deal the Interior Department has struck to pay firms to abandon plans for offshore turbines.

I don't like cancelling wind projects but there are some incorrect assumptions when you just read this headline.

The company paid $800M for a lease on federal waters to build the wind turbine. This is more akin to a refund than "pay them not to do this". That, and the money will instead be used to build natural gas power, which is stupid for reasons mentioned in the article.

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Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC

I have almost this exact mini PC. It was ok for things like StarCraft 2 and the Sims 4. I tried playing a newer game like Stormgate and it couldn't keep up.

I've since spent a bunch of money getting an eGPU set up, and have yet to have more than 5 gaming sessions in a row without a crash.

I probably could have saved a lot of money if I'd just gotten a PC with some headroom for upgrading, but I really didn't think I'd want to.