u/Zakkattack86

One of my favorite guitars to play on has a single EMG-81 in the bridge with a volume and tone pot. I went to plug it in for a little jammy jam session and got nothing. First thought, must be the cord, nope wasn't the cord. Must be the 9V, nope, not that either (tongue tested, zap approved). Ah, the input jack, nah, that was fine as well. It's gotta be the pots, no way the pickup failed, so I ordered new pots. They arrived the next day and I get them installed. Sure as shit, still nothing. Now I'm pissed, WTF is going on?!

I cut the strings and pull the pickup out of the cavity. My pickup was from 2003 and even though solder was used to connect to the pots, it had a solderless connector on the pickup. The connector itself slid off the tiniest bit from pickup inside the cavity. I pushed it back over and boom, problem solved. How tf does a connection come loose from the underside of a pickup after literal years of never touching the pickup? Anyways, I hope this helps some random soul one day.

Former Kristie Noem lap dog at DHS, Octavian Miller, who was fired after they moved to the State Department, is now a Special Advisor at HHS according to his LinkedIn. Even though RIFs are happening at HHS right now, Heritage finds a way.

His experience is very impressive. A solid 4 month internship at the Heritage Foundation kickstarted it all. Lucky for him, first real gig was a Scheduler for Matt Gaetz. /s

DHS' Detention Oversight Office is no more. They gutted it, left the open sign on, and now they're pointing the finger at congress for its official closure.

I am not a former employee and I am not a journalist. I've followed this story from the beginning because I felt it was being underreported. This should have national attention but this administration has cracked the code on burying stories with consistent clickbait nonsense on reflecting pools, hand makeup, UFO files, and everything else that'll take your attention away from what you should actually see. The above article was buried before it was even posted.

Follow up from my last few posts.

Lawsuit and the latest development

Noem's Henchmen

One of Project 2025's many objectives included shutting down the DHS offices of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, Office of Immigration Detention Ombudsman, & Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman. Lets face it, if you were a Stephen Miller enforced army, the last thing you want when you're mass deporting people without due process are congressionally mandated oversight offices in place to document you and account for others responsible for these atrocities. Well, they can check this off their list.

Since March of 2025, when 300+ career feds were RIF'd and stripped of their positions with no bump/retreat and their competitive area limited to their specific offices, the actual work they did came to a grinding halt. In at least one lawsuit, depositions from Troup Hemenway, Ron Sartini, and Joseph Guy, all indicated the offices were running smoothly with 4 to 5 federal employees and there was no plan in place to shut down these offices last year. They also said that the official RIF notices sent to former employees spelling out "The offices will be dissolved" was not true and it was a misunderstanding. They should all be arrested and charged with perjury. They knew the offices would use its remaining budget to pay severance out to the entire workforce they fired and had no plans on renewing their budget for FY26. Joseph Guy even admitted to working only 5 hours a week and he was the head of the department overseeing detention facilities.

Now only Ron Sartini remains, wearing about 5 hats of what used to be GS-15 and SES positions. Troup and Joey moved to the state department, still latched to their disgraced master Noem's sad bags. Thankfully, Troup was fired shortly after but there's no doubt, he'll be back in the White House soon if he's not already there now. Good boys always return home. Good boy, Johnny /s

To date, 2,100 people have been in detention for over a year now and they have no voice.

My 10 year old TV was much more expensive and actually performs much better than the new TVs that are being sold for under $500. I also didn't have to setup an account and agree to several terms of use before it worked.

For example, Airplay works flawlessly with my old TV but won't connect in less than 10 attempts with my new TVs.