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K–5 charter schools sound harmless until you see a mother choose a school that advertises her six‑year‑old will be raised with “social justice first” instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic. When that same mother is anti‑ICE “warrior” Renee Nicole Good, shot dead in a street confrontation with a federal agent, the lesson plan stops being theoretical and starts colliding with the law.
Legacy media elites think you’re a “village idiot” — and this week they went ahead and said it out loud. CBS’s new Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil posted a video promising to stop leaning on “advocates” and “academics or elites” and instead put the average American at the center of the broadcast, and the very people he was talking about instantly proved his point.
Bari Weiss CBS wasn’t supposed to matter this fast—but within weeks of taking over as editor-in-chief, the new boss yanked a 60 Minutes Trump deportation hit piece just hours before airtime and sent a shockwave through legacy media.
A segment built around sympathetic Venezuelan deportees inside El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison went from heavily promoted to “postponed” after Weiss ordered more reporting, more on-the-record Trump administration voices, and tougher scrutiny of a narrative that had all the fingerprints of activist television, not journalism.
Building a budget PC build isn’t just about saving dollars upfront—it’s about leveraging previous hardware investments to make every new rig more affordable and strategic over time. This journey began thanks to the jaw-dropping $9.97 Windows 11 Pro deal from TechRepublic Academy, which became the catalyst for this round of upgrades.
Whether your first build costs $550 or $1050, BYOPC (Build Your Own PC) strategies help you cascade older components forward, lowering the cost for every subsequent system. Here, you’ll discover how cascading, gifting, and repurposing parts create a long-term ecosystem where each new build gets cheaper—a method that keeps your setups current but your wallet happy.
Building the i5-13600KF rig reminded me why the Cooler Master N200 is the micro-ATX case that truly solves modern problems for practical PC builders. After years searching for something like the old Rosewill FBM-01—a dependable, budget-friendly case with external drive bays—I stumbled upon the N200 purely by accident.
It’s not nostalgia driving this post. The real strength of external bays is versatility—they offer options that are rare in today’s case market. The Cooler Master N200 stands out in 2024/2025 for keeping one 5.25″ and one 3.5″ bay up front. Hot-swap drives, extra USB-C ports, card readers, fan controllers—whatever your build needs, these bays make it possible even in a compact Micro-ATX case.
This isn’t about chasing trends; it’s about keeping useful features alive for builders who need them.