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#shutdown

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins (R-ME) bluntly told Bolton, No, when asked if she supports Trump's threats to cut major projects like the $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. The Trump administration has been putting pressure on Democrats during the ongoing shutdown by stripping their states of major projects and defunding programs, something that critics long warned was part of the Project 2025 playbook.

"'But Simon,' you say, 'of course they will fall in line,'" he wrote in a blog post. "'They always do.' My response, of course, is that little cracks can become big cracks, and you just never know in politics.

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again expecting a different result. The reason we're here is because the president actually charted a different course with a different team. He vested a lot of authority in Steve Witkoff in particular, and that's why we're here. It's because you did something different, and I think it's important to recognize that.

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be supported after December 16, 2025, and advised that users export or migrate their data to either Google Sheets or AppSheet instead, depending on their needs. Launched in 2020, Tables focused on making project tracking more efficient with automation.

Have you ever gone completely quiet in the middle of an argument-your mind blank, your mouth frozen? Or felt so overwhelmed after a fight that you left-not just the room, but the relationship itself? I've been there. And for a long time, I didn't know why. I thought I was the problem, or maybe I was just cold. Unavailable. But I've come to understand something important:

"We've made the difficult decision to close 'Twitch Sings' on Jan. 1, 2021 to invest in broader tools and music services on Twitch."