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Victoria Barton - "Is there anything we can put in the National Flood Insurance Program's lapse with Exercise Analysis Group to hit at Biden?"
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Victoria Barton - "So they're saying we should fire 20,000 people? Which ones are they firing? Maybe I'm re***ded."
If you phone mirror or airplay reddit on a newer TV, it's basically useless. It shows a random video that's not the one on your phone screen. Is there any planned fix for this in the future?
My house sits in the middle of a field that used to be farmland. From any side, it's roughly 150 yards to any wooded area. The grass surrounding my house is mowed weekly and predatory birds rule the sky. Even though field mice and other rodents have very little chance of survival being exposed out in the open, I've always had a fear that one would find a way into my garage and post up somewhere in my car. Well, one did, and he got to work quickly on the top of my wheel well.
When I went to move my car out of the garage, I noticed some bits of debris near the tire that looked out of place. A quick look when I pulled back the wheel well revealed more chewed up bits.
Luckily, it didn't nest for too long and never chewed any wires. It got one of my kid's nerf darts and some pipe insulation but thankfully nothing expensive has to be replaced. I set several snap traps up over night and managed to catch him the following morning. He was definitely a field mouse and thankfully, they typically roll solo when they're foraging.
For the record, the amount of pieces you have to remove to pull the wheel well on an Emira is absolutely absurd. Of all the things to over engineer...
Stay vigilant, homies.
It's too bad it come out of the city's budget but that's what happens when you bend the knee.
No chance anybody actually looks into this.
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.
Here's the full story if you're interested. I ended up wrapping it after 6 months because the color was showing way too much dirt and was impossible to keep clean.
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.