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Zodiac meticulously hand drew his ciphers, but his handwritten letters were sometimes sloppy and often contained spelling errors. Theories about the misspelled words vary. But I think they do have a purpose.
I was looking at the dragon card message when I realized the obvious. Zodiac was meticulous with his correspondence. Nothing was included that wasn't meant to be there. Because he put in so much effort, he wouldn't have allowed for any mistakes. If you read the message you will notice that he misspells a word, only to spell it correctly a couple lines down. So he knows how to spell correctly. There are no mistakes in any of those letters. The misspellings are meant to be there because they serve a purpose.
1) The first mistake is the last word of Line 6 - "butons". Now, if you write the correct spelling "Buttons" above "butons" and cross out the matching letters in each word, you are left with a "T".
2) The next mistake you will come to isn't a misspelled word, but contains one. The Zodiac is talking about all of the buttons he sees people around San Fran wearing. One of his examples is "Melvin eats bluber". The Melvin Belli reference aside, this was a mistake. There never were any Melvin eats blubber buttons. The buttons actually said "Melville eats blubber". So, write that above his mistake and cross out the letters that occur in both words. You will get N, L, L, E, B.
3) Next is the word "considerbly" which will give you an A.
4) Then another "Buton" which will give you a T.
5) Lastly for this message, another "Melvin's", which will give you N, L, L, E.
So all together you have ( T N LLE B A T N LLE )
You can make that into several things. I first saw the last name of one of the prime Zodiac suspects, Arthur Lee Allen. Remember, Arthur Lee Allen lived with his mother, whose name was Bernice Allen. B Allen?
TELL
B ALLEN NT
BALLET or BATTLE?
It may just be nonsense. But there are obvious clues in the letters besides the ciphers. For Instance, the 13 cipher with the map of Mt. Diablo. The 13 cipher uses letters and symbols from the face of a 1968 Zodiac Watch Company Sea Wolf watch. Now, Zodiac drew the watch company's symbol (his symbol) of the circle and cross over Mt. Diablo. He then wrote 0, 3, 6, 9 and "Set to Mag. N." next to the 0. (FYI, a model of the Sea Wolf had a compass N,E,S,W dial around the face). So, the 3,6,9 are all in the correct place where they would appear on the watch face. BUT THE 0! The 0 is where the 12 o'clock should be. I think there may have been a 0 on the ring around the watch face as well, but can't remember. Now, in the same letter Zodiac drew his circle and cross with "-12". He was saying there wasn't a 12, there was a 0. Because Zodiac -12 SFPD - 0. Was this his location in relation to the SFPD and not his body count?
Also, the South Lake Tahoe letter and victim Lass. She worked at a casino there. In the 13 Cipher, you can clearly see that the first word plainly says
C A S I N × O. The message on the postcard in question said "Peek through the pines". Could he have meant, "Peak through the pines", as in mountain peak? Zodiac had said that the cipher related to radians and inches on a map. The first and last letters of this cipher are C and G. In geometry, C represents radians, G represents gradians. I am not extremely proficient in math, but I can't see where it actually does represent what he says it does. I think he was lying..Go figure.
A while back I took a different approach to the 340 or 408 Cipher, can't remember which one I used at the time, and I lost everything because that computer crashed. I have an anger issue with computers. I punch them too much, which greatly affects their performance. But all of the symbols used are actually astrological symbols that, in turn, represent specific numbers. They are symbols that are used to make a person's astrological chart, like for the moment they were born. It gets difficult tracking down the meaning of each symbol when you know nothing about astrology. But, I went one symbol at a time and replaced them with their numeric value and it actually read real coordinates of longitude and latitude. The first coordinate was a place in Northern California, near the Nevada Border, by the Scott Warner Wilderness Area. I only finished the first two lines, so I don't know if it would have lead to something of actual importance. But I think it would have been just another dead end or another puzzle.
All of the tangents, leads, and circumstantial evidence can lead you in so many different directions. I know a lot of people were very excited when they discovered the 1952 Tim Holt Red Mask comic book. The issue that featured Lady Doom and the Wheel of Death. The wheel listed ways to die, like "Death by Knife", "Death by Gun", "Death by Rope". So the Zodiac's message scratched into the car door at Lake Berryessa appears to be directly linked to the comic. People began looking at Tim Holt. But even more curious was the illustrator of the comic book, Frank Bolle. He signed his initials in the artwork "FWB" in a way that is extremely similar to one of the symbols designs Zodiac used later on (not in a cipher). Frank Bolle wrote a comic strip in 1971 called Alexander Gates. The character was an astrologist. Frank Bolle is deceased now, but the coincidences were strange.
Despite all of this, I can't get by the idea that Zodiac wasn't just one or two people, but the result of several events. The first couple killed were David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen. I do not believe Cherri Jo Bates was a Zodiac victim, but was later claimed for understandable reasons that I will discuss. I read an interview with Betty Lou's family after the murder, and I was left with the feeling that there wasn't really any grieving. The father, Verne Jensen, struck me as odd. Verne Jensen was a career Army officer, and was working at the GSA in that area. One thing that I noticed was that Betty Lou had siblings, or at least one sibling, an older sister. After she is pictured in that interview, you don't hear of her again.
From my understanding, the relationship between Verne and his youngest daughter Betty Lou, was somewhat rocky. Betty Lou was sort of the black sheep. She wanted to date boys when she was too young, and had been in trouble with her parents before that. On the night of the murders, she was supposed to be at a school function, and I believe her parents had forbid her from going on a date. So, perhaps Verne suspected something, or saw her pull away from the diner in a boys car. But he followed them out to a remote lover's lane spot. He had been upset about how her activities made the family look. It would not have been good if she was whoring around with some boy. And kids go out to lover's lanes to have sex. It's that simple.
Instead of going to the school function like she was supposed to, she went to the diner with the boy to meet friends, then went to the lover's lane. Verne pulled up, and in a fit of rage, ordered them out of the car. One thing led to another and he shot David Farraday in the back of the head. Betty Lou was back from the car. Perhaps he had ordered her to go back to his car. But then, out of anger and fear, he shot Betty Lou. She was shot five times, opposed to David's one. There was some prejudice and a connection between her and the killer.
Six months later..Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau are parked in a dark, remote lover's lane. A car pulls up, leaves, and comes back about ten minutes later. The two can't see because of the lights from the car behind. That's why they think it's a cop. The killer fires multiple rounds into the car, killing Darlene. Michael survives.
Darlene Ferrin was a married woman. No matter how you try to spin this, the husband could not have been happy with her activities. So, perhaps he drove by and saw them parked. Or one of his friends did. They pulled in, verified it was them, went to get a gun and came back. Once again, Darlene was killed. Michael survived, but probably not on purpose. I think different ammunition was used in this killing, as opposed to Betty Lou and David.
After that, the killer got scared. If it was Darlene's husband, his only thought was that he would be the prime suspect. So he panicked. Three blocks from his house, across the street from the police station, he called the police and reported the murders. He also said he was responsible for the other two murders six months before, and hung up. Why would he do that? The first two murders were shocking, and everybody in that area knew about them. He didn't want the police to suspect him, the natural suspect in this type of murder. So he claimed to be the killer of the kids at both places. If the police went on the idea that one psycopath killer was responsible, and if the husband had an airtight alibi for the time when Betty Lou and David were killed, then he couldn't have been responsible for any of them.
I don't know if Verne wrote the first letter, or he did. But it solidified the idea that one person was responsible for the two seperate instances. Anybody who followed the case at the time would know this. So then we have the Lake Berryessa murders, which was well planned. Someone had followed the case and made himself a Zodiac costume to hide his identity. But this killing wasn't like the others. The killer tied up his victims and used a knife. And he did it in broad daylight.
He was using the Zodiac image of the killer that had been created in the news. To tie them into the others, he wrote the dates of the murders and played off the Tim Holt comic book.
Then came Paul Stine, which didn't match any of the others.
In that time, letters were written which the Zodiac established his identity, taunted the police, threatened more killings, and included cryptic ciphers to mislead the police. The Cherri Jo Bates murder became known as a possible Zodiac killing, and the writer gladly claimed credit. The more killings, the more locations, the more times, if all tied into one suspect, would essentially disqualify any of the killers (one, two, or three people). Because not one of them could have been in all those places at those times, and that would have provided an alibi. One thing that the writer of the letters could count on, was the fact that he could claim the previous murders and not worry about the real killer stepping forward and saying, "No he didn't. That was me." Because Verne would have just wanted to be forgotten about.
And handwriting analysis was not very good at the time. You will notice that some Zodiac letters are sloppy and some are neatly printed. They vary. I wouldn't doubt if the ciphers are all just nonsensical bullshit. The more murders you tie into one person, the more of an airtight alibi you create for yourself. Because, if one person was responsible for all of them, then an alibi for just one would disqualify you as the killer for all of them.
Lastly, you have to look at serial killers before and after. Serial killers kill for personal reasons. It something that is very private to them. They usually have one safe spot where they feel comfortable. Ed Gein had his farm and was somewhat of a recluse. The Green River Killer had a remote spot on the Green River. John Wayne Gacy had all of his bodies under his house. Richard NG had the bodies under a remote cabin. Ted Bundy broke this rule, but killed in the same manner as he travelled across country. But the bodies were mostly in one private location. It would probably have really bothered any of them to have their private locations discovered. None of them wrote lettter after letter claiming responsibility for killing. All of them killed by one method. The last thing any of them wanted was to be a suspect, or to be in the spotlight. None of them wrote letters to shame the police. They were all very private people. So, Zodiac strays away from this. It doesn't match the profile of a serial killer. It's not what a serial killer would do, because it's not why a serial killer actually kills.
I don't think we will ever know who the killer or killers actually were.
Thanks for reading,
Matt Brubach

When I was in college I found myself Ubering to make money. This was in Southern California, and LA at the time was a constant flow of work. Occasionally you’d pick people up in a nice area and they’d tell you that they were sleeping with someone in a relationship, or that they themselves were cheating. This was depressingly common. I think that saying what they were doing to someone gave them a weird kind of relief.
Once I drove someone from Hollywood to Hemet, CA. He was very charming, and funny. When I dropped him off it was at a big blue building that they buzzed us into. He left me a $200 cash tip. I later found out this was what is known as “Gold base” for the church of scientology. If you don’t know what that is, it’s a completely normal not weird at all in any way location owned by the church of scientology. Feel free to google it!
A few months into my “taxi” career. Insurance companies started using ride share service, and some people who were more down on their luck would use it. Sometimes this was people just trying to get their kids to school, but sometimes it was much sadder. I can’t tell you how many times I showed up to a doctors office to see someone with accessibility limitations face drop at seeing my tiny car instead of a van like they needed.
The people with substance problems were interactions that would stay with you.
Once I picked a man going to a dental appointment and I drove him for about a half hour. He told me about how he used to run drugs in the 90’s, until they caught him with a few pounds of coke. He told me about when he was moved from Nevada to Florida for trial. How he travelled handcuffed in a van. How the cops would stop only once a day at McDonalds and for their one dollar menu item of the day. He asked me to stop at a liquor store he chugged a tiny bottle of booze, shoved mints into his mouth, then sipped on a soda.
He smelled like pure alcohol when I dropped him off at the dentist.
Near my house there was a methadone clinic. I would get up before dawn to be able to take those rides. (Early bird gets the worm right) Almost always they were sweet, and thankful. Sometimes they were a little out of it but I never felt in danger or anything like that. Just good people going through tough times. These rides were the most consistently depressing.
People who were going to court clearly drunk or high. Older women who had trouble requesting a ride and had been waiting in the parking lot of their dialysis place into the night.
They’d tell their stories sometimes. A person who was going to court for a child custody case, people struggling with mental illness. Some mornings were exhausting.
Being up that early you’d hit another crowd that I had never anticipated. Funeral goers. The saddest funeral ride was when a man and a woman got into my backseat. Rather than speaking to me the man handed me a neon printout of a map of a cemetery with instructions on what plot to go to. With, “Hello, I am attending my father’s funeral. My wife and I are deaf. Please follow these directions.” Written on the back of it.
The whole ride I could hear them signing to one another and trying not to cry.
There were also the retired gamblers. They’d leave their houses at 7 in the morning, take a $70 uber out to the desert, and spend the whole day gambling at the reservation casinos. The desert is where I saw the weirdest things.
The desert was the only place I had ever felt scared driving. It was in Temecula the “wine country” of so cal. Lots of wooded roads and desert. I picked up a lady just off the freeway at what I initially assumed was the edge of a golf resort but it was an unpaved access road. It was late and that area was especially dark. I was getting ready to call the passenger I saw them coming down the unpaved access road.
It was a tall blonde woman in a very nice pant suit. She was absurdly put together considering she had walked god knows how long in heels down a dirt rock road. She got into the car and was very pleasant. She said she lived in a gated community that was hard to get Ubers too and it was easier to send me to the access road. I thought it was weird but I did not want to be creepy asking about where she lived.
She was friendly, chatty even. She was going to a dinner party, and as she spoke to me I could feel her looking at me in the rearview mirror the entire ride. We drove a half hour away from the freeway. To one of those rural chic neighborhoods that you would hear celebrities had huge parties at.
Eventually we reached the “address” which was a paved road lined with trees. She told me to keep driving and I didn’t think much of it because again we were in a mansion style neighborhood. We hit a white ranch style fence after a minute or so going down the road.
That was the when I started to feel a bit uneasy. There were around a dozen no trespassing signs, and one of those classic “Forget the dog, beware of owner” signs with a guy pointing a pistol at you. I thought it was more than a little blunt to have that many signs but hey not my property.
We drove for about a minute when we came to another fence. It was at the top of a hill and it overlooked a barn with some lights in the distance. I know this sounds weird but it was unpleasant. I couldn’t put my finger on it. It was just a barn with what looked like a barbecue going on. But being out in the woods without any light had freaked me out.
The passenger told me I could just slide the gate open. As I approached the fence, I saw some signs that made me stop cold.
Off to the side of the gate, not quite in the dark, but on the fringes of my headlights. There were metal signs with bullet holes through them. Swaztikas, and confederate flags brightly displayed.
So-Cal has a lot of white supremacist pockets. I had dropped off dozens of passengers in Cities like Norco, and driven down streets with people drinking in the garage, and a nazi flag proudly hung behind them. It wasn’t my favorite but I wasn’t spending any time in those neighborhoods more than I needed to. This was different though.
It was after 11pm at night, and I had no idea where I was. I opened the gate , and down the road I saw what I assume were cellphone flashlights lighting up and coming up the incline. This made me very uncomfortable. I went back and I told the woman that I didn’t think my car could make it back up the hill if I went down it.
“What are you talking about? Just take me it’s right there.”
She was getting more heated and I could see the lights slowly making their way up the hill.
She kept telling me I needed to cancel the ride, and that she wouldn’t pay to not be taken the entire way. I told her the pin I was supposed to take her too was a mile back up the road, but I was so nervous I relented and cancelled on my end. She slammed the door as she got out.
I took off before I could see the cellphone light people get closer. The road back was much rougher at the speed I was going at. I felt a bump that felt like I hit a body but I kept going. My car was driving like shit but I kept driving till I was past the fence, out of the rich neighborhood until I stopped at a gas station. My right rear tire was fucked up, and I needed to change it.
There was a few nails that looked like they had been attached to a piece of wood on my tire. I was freaked out so hard and sometimes I wish I had called the cops and reported it. But of course all that happened was I got a flat on a back road, and I didn’t want to spend the rest of my night waiting on a cop car.
I know it’s far more likely that I freaked myself out than a bunch of nazis planning to mess with a random Uber driver. But when I pick up a well dressed businesswoman from a remote location, and drop her off at a separate remote location, gives me chills that I have trouble explaining to this day.

I have recently started working for DoorDash and it’s pretty great. I work in Las Vegas Nevada and this happened on the Strip. I have done 104 deliveries and this was the 104th delivery. Basically I went into Miracle Mile and went into a Chipotle. They made the food there slowly and started when we arrive so it wasn’t even ready. They actually had the wrong pinpoint on the map but knew where that food court was. I picked up the food and go to the next casino which was Mandalay Bay. We find parking and contact them to come down due to hotel policies. They took a while which isn’t any problem and they come down and take their food. I finish the delivery and says I have a contract violation for being late. I call Customer service about this and they weren’t really helpful rather than saying I can still work and something about adjusting customer rating so I’m confused a bit. They said I should’ve called to tell them so they can extend the time which I didn’t know yet. Any Advice? 😅

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Title refers to: The Trump admin is blocking IGs from getting info on over $1 trillion in relief spending, including corporation bailouts. The admin is also withholding PPP info from Congress, meaning we don't know if Trump or his family took taxpayer money. Additionally, we learned that at least 4 members of Congress have benefited from PPP money, but aren't required to disclose it.
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Coronavirus

Inspectors general warned Congress last week that the Trump administration is blocking scrutiny of more than $1 trillion in spending related to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the previously undisclosed letter, Department of Treasury attorneys concluded that the administration is not required to provide the watchdogs with information about the beneficiaries of programs like the $500 billion in loans for corporations.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin refused to provide Congress with the names of recipients of the taxpayer-funded coronavirus business loans. After criticism, Mnuchin began to walk back his denial, saying he will talk to lawmakers on a bipartisan basis “to strike the appropriate balance for proper oversight” of PPP loans “and appropriate protection of small business information.”
At least 4 lawmakers have benefited in some way from the Paycheck Protection program they helped create. Politico has been told there are almost certainly more -- but there are zero disclosure rules, even for members of Congress.

• Republicans on the list include Rep. Roger Williams of Texas, a wealthy businessman who owns auto dealerships, body shops and car washes, and Rep. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, whose family owns multiple farms and equipment suppliers across the Midwest. The Democrats count Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada, whose husband is CEO of a regional casino developer, and Rep. Debbie Mucarsel Powell of Florida, whose husband is a senior executive at a restaurant chain that has since returned the loan.

Mick Mulvaney dumped as much as $550,000 in stocks the same day Trump assured the public the US economy was 'doing fantastically' amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Mulvaney unloaded his holdings in three different mutual funds, each of which is primarily made up of US stocks. The next day, the value of the mutual funds tanked.

Cases rising in many states

Good summary: There was supposed to be a peak. But the stark turning point, when the number of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. finally crested and began descending sharply, never happened. Instead, America spent much of April on a disquieting plateau, with every day bringing about 30,000 new cases and about 2,000 new deaths. This pattern exists because different states have experienced the coronavirus pandemic in very different ways…The U.S. is dealing with a patchwork pandemic.
As of Friday, coronavirus cases were significantly climbing in 16 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington.
Oklahoma is experiencing a massive increase in coronavirus cases just days before Trump’s planned rally in Tulsa. In Tulsa county itself, 1 in roughly 390 people have tested positive. Yet Trump plans on cramming 20,000 people in an event with voluntary face mask policy and no social distancing. Attendees must sign a waiver that absolves the president’s campaign of any liability from virus-related illnesses.

• On Monday, Pence lied saying that Oklahoma has “flattened the curve.” As you can see at any of the resources immediately below, this is not even close to true. Over the past 14 days, the state has seen a 124% increase in cases and reports 65% of ICU beds are in use.
  
• Tulsa World Editorial Board: This is the wrong time and Tulsa is the wrong place for the Trump rally. "We don't know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city...Again, Tulsa will be largely alone in dealing with what happens at a time when the city’s budget resources have already been stretched thin."
  
• Earlier in the day, Trump tweeted that he is a victim of double standards when it comes to perception of his decision to resume campaign rallies in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that attempts to “covid shame” his campaign “won’t work!”
  

Resources to track increases: There are many different sites with various methods of visualizing the spread of coronavirus. Here are some that may be particularly useful this summer… Topos COVID-19 compiler homepage and graphs of each state since re-opening. How we reopen Safely has stats on each state’s progress towards meeting benchmarks to reopen safely (hint: almost none have reached all the checkpoints). WaPo has a weekly national map of cases/deaths; the largest regional clusters are in the southeast.
On Monday, Trump twice said that “if we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” (video). Aside from the fact that cases exist even if we don’t test for them, we cannot explain the rising number of cases by increased testing capacity: In at least 14 states, the positive case rate is increasing faster than the increase in the average number of tests.

• Reminder: In March Trump told Fox News that he didn't want infected patients from a cruise ship to disembark because it would increase the number of reported cases in the US. "I like the numbers being where they are," Trump said at the time. "I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

Fired scientist Rebekah Jones builds coronavirus dashboard to rival Florida’s… Her site shows thousands more people with the coronavirus, and hundreds of thousands fewer who have been tested, than the site run by the Florida Health Department.

Equipment and supplies

More studies prove wearing masks limits transmission and spread of coronavirus… One study from Britain found that routine face mask use by 50% or more of the population reduced COVID-19 spread to an R of less than 1.0. The R value measures the average number of people that one infected person will pass the disease on to. An R value above 1 can lead to exponential growth. The study found that if people wear masks whenever they are in public it is twice as effective at reducing the R value than if masks are only worn after symptoms appear.
Meanwhile, Trump officials refuse to wear masks and Trump supporters copy his behavior… VP Mike Pence, leader of the coronavirus task force, published a tweet showing himself in a room full of Trump staffers, none wearing masks or practicing social distancing. Pence deleted the tweet shortly after criticism. A poll last week showed that 66% of likely-Biden-voters “always wear a mask,” while 83% of likely-Trump-voters “neverarely wear a mask.”

• Trump’s opposition to face masks hasn’t stopped him from selling them to his supporters, though. The online Trump Store is selling $20 cotton American flag-themed face masks.
  
• Yesterday, we learned that South Carolina Republican Rep. Tom Rice and family have tested positive for the coronavirus. Just two weeks ago, Rice was on the House floor and halls of the Capitol without wearing a mask.
  

Internal FEMA data show that the government’s supply of surgical gowns has not meaningfully increased since March… The slides show FEMA’s plan to ramp up supply into June and July hinges on the reusing of N95 masks and surgical gowns, increasing the risk of contamination. Those are supposed to be disposed of after one use.
Nursing homes with urgent needs for personal protective equipment say they’re receiving defective equipment as part of Trump administration supply initiative. Officials say FEMA is sending them gowns that look more like large tarps -- with no holes for hands -- and surgical masks that are paper-thin.
More than 1,300 Chinese medical-device companies that registered to sell PPE in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic used bogus registration data… These companies listed as their American representative a purported Delaware entity that uses a false address and nonworking phone number.
Florida is sitting on more than 980,000 unused doses of hydroxychloroquine, but hospitals don’t want it… Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered a million doses of the drug to show support for Trump, but very few hospitals have requested it.

Native American communities struggle

The CARES Act money for Native American tribes, meant to assist people during the pandemic, came with restrictions that are impeding efforts to limit the transmission of the virus. For instance, the funds can only be used to cover expenses that are "incurred due to the public health emergency." On the Navajo Nation, the public health emergency is inherently related to some basic infrastructure problems. 30% of Navajo don’t have running water to wash their hands, but the money can’t be used to build water lines.
Federal and state health agencies are refusing to give Native American tribes and organizations representing them access to data showing how the coronavirus is spreading around their lands, potentially widening health disparities and frustrating tribal leaders already ill-equipped to contain the pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns… Pregnant Native American women were singled out for COVID-19 testing based on their race and ZIP code, clinicians say. While awaiting results, some mothers were separated from their newborns, depriving them of the immediate contact doctors recommend. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that state officials would investigate the allegations.

Personnel & appointees

Former IG Steve Linick told Congress he was conducting five investigations into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the State Department before he was fired. In addition to investigating Pompeo's potential misuse of taxpayer funds and reviewing his decision to expedite an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, Linick’s office was conducting an audit of Special Immigrant Visas, a review of the International Women of Courage Award, and another review "involving individuals in the Office of the Protocol."

• Pompeo confidant emerges as enforcer in fight over watchdog’s firing: Linick testified that Undersecretary of State for Management Brian Bulatao, a decades-old friend of Pompeo’s, “tried to bully [him]” out of investigating Pompeo.

Trump has empowered John McEntee, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, to make significant staffing changes inside top federal agencies without the consent — and, in at least one case, without even the knowledge — of the agency head. Many senior officials in Trump's government are sounding alarms about the loss of expertise and institutional knowledge.
Trump’s nominee for under secretary of defense for policy, retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony Tata, has a history of making Islamophobic and inflammatory remarks against prominent Democratic politicians, including falsely calling former President Barack Obama a Muslim.
Amid racial justice marches, GOP advances Trump court pick hostile to civil rights. Cory Wilson, up for a lifetime seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, has denied that restrictive voting laws lead to voter suppression and called same-sex marriage “a pander to liberal interest groups.”
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has indefinitely extended the terms of the acting directors of the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service, sidestepping the typical Senate confirmation process for those posts and violating the Federal Vacancies Reform Act,

Courts and DOJ

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take a closer look at qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that shields law enforcement and government officials from lawsuits over their conduct. Developed in recent decades by the high court, the qualified immunity doctrine, as applied to police, initially asks two questions: Did police use excessive force, and if they did, should they have known that their conduct was illegal because it violated a "clearly established" prior court ruling that barred such conduct? In practice, however, lower courts have most often dismissed police misconduct lawsuits on grounds that there is no prior court decision with nearly identical facts.
The Supreme Court ruled that federal anti-discrimination laws protect gay and transgender employees. Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s liberals in the 6 to 3 ruling. They said Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination “because of sex,” includes LGBTQ employees.

• Alito, writing more than 100 pages in dissent for himself and Thomas, accused the court's majority of writing legislation, not law. Kavanaugh wrote separately: "We are judges, not members of Congress...Under the Constitution and laws of the United States, this court is the wrong body to change American law in that way."
  
• Just days before the SCOTUS opinion was released, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance. The SCOTUS ruling may make it easier to challenge the changes made by Trump.
  

The Supreme Court also declined to take up California’s “sanctuary” law, denying the Trump administration’s appeal. This means that the lower court opinion upholding one of California's sanctuary laws is valid, limiting cooperation between law enforcement and federal immigration authorities. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, two of the Court's conservative members, supported taking up the case.
A federal appeals court appeared unlikely Friday to stop a judge from examining why the Justice Department sought to walk away from its prosecution of Michael Flynn. "I don't see why we don't observe regular order," said Judge Karen Henderson. "Why not hold this in abeyance and see what happens?" Judge Robert Wilkins told Flynn's lawyer that if Sullivan doesn't let the government drop the case, "then you can come back here on appeal."

Other

Good read: Fiona Hill on being mistaken as a secretary by Trump, her efforts to make sure he was not left alone with Putin, and what the US, UK and Russia have in common. “It’s spitting in Merkel’s face,” said Vladimir Frolov, a former Russian diplomat who’s now a foreign-policy analyst. “But it’s in our interests.”

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry welcomed Trump’s plan to withdraw more than a quarter of U.S. troops from Germany.
  
• Op-Ed: Why cutting American forces in Germany will harm this alliance
  

According to a new book, the Secret Service had to seek more funding to cover the cost of protecting Melania Trump while she stayed in NYC to renegotiate her prenup - taxpayers paid tens of millions of dollars to allow her to get better terms. Additionally, NYPD estimated its own costs conservatively at $125,000 a day.
Georgia election 'catastrophe' in largely minority areas sparks investigation. Long lines, lack of voting machines, and shortages of primary ballots plagued voters. As of Monday night, there were still over 200,000 uncounted votes.
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Fox News Mocked After Mistaking Monty Python Joke for Seattle Protest Infighting
In addition to holding a rally on the day after Juneteenth (originally scheduled the day of), Trump will be accepting the GOP nomination in Jacksonville on the 60th anniversary of “Ax Handle Saturday,” a KKK attack on African Americans.
Environmental news:

• Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia.
  
• Trump administration has issued a new rule blocking tribes from protecting their waters from projects like pipelines, dams, and coal terminals.
  
• The EPA published a proposal in the Federal Register that critics described as an assault on minority communities coping with the public health legacy of structural racism. The rule would bar EPA from giving special consideration to individual communities that bear the brunt of environmental risks — frequently populations of color.
  
• The Trump administration is preparing to drill off Florida’s coast, but says it will wait until after the November election to avoid any backlash from Florida state leaders.
  

Immigration news

• U.S. Customs and Border Protection used emergency funding meant for migrant families and children to pay for dirt bikes, canine supplies, computer equipment and other enforcement related-expenditures… The money was meant to be spent on “consumables and medical care” for migrants at the border.
  
• ACLU files lawsuit against stringent border restrictions related to coronavirus that largely bar migrants from entering the United States.
  
• Under Trump’s leadership, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has mismanaged its finances so badly that it has sought an emergency $1.2 billion infusion from taxpayers. When Trump took office, USCIS inherited a budget surplus. A large amount of funding is drained by its deliberate creation of more busy work for immigrants and their lawyers — as well as thousands of USCIS employees. These changes are designed to make it harder for people to apply for, receive or retain lawful immigration status.
  
• Asylum-seeking migrants locked up inside an Arizona ICE detention center with one of the highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases say they were forced to clean the facility and are 'begging' for protection from the virus
  
• ICE plans to spend $18 million on thousands of new tasers and the training to use them
  

I have noticed also that I have a wrist seam problem, not sure how to fix that either. https://imgur.com/a/RLRqpAd
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Meeting McCarthy
by Garry Wallace
Southern Quarterly, 1992, 30(4), 134-139
In March of 1989, while traveling to El Paso with Betty Carey, I was afforded the opportunity of meeting Cormac McCarthy. Betty Carey, of Las Vegas World Series of Poker fame, was writing a book about her adventures as a professional gambler. She had arranged to meet with McCarthy to discuss her current writing, as well as to rendezvous with their common friend, Frank Morton, another gambler. What follows is my best recollection of the several conversations that took place over three days of our visit. I made no tape recording or notes during these informal, quite friendly talks, but wrote what I remembered in a journal after returning from El Paso. This account is recreated from chapters in my unpublished novel based on my year-long writing partnership with Betty Carey, and is as accurate as memory allows. Where I felt reasonable confident about actual words, I have used direct quotations. Elsewhere, I have paraphrased.
​On a bright spring Sunday morning, Betty and I awaited McCarthy in a quaint family restaurant on Mesa Avenue in El Paso, where Cormac suggested we meet to have brunch. Betty clutched a handkerchief to absorb the perspiration from her hands. She was nervous, as was I. Each time the entrance door opened, we glanced in anticipation. Finally a man, nondescript—medium build, short hair, a dull plaid shirt—walked down the short flight of stairs, his eyes searching the lower tier where we seated. It was Cormac McCarthy.
​Betty smiled and we got up to greet her friend. McCarthy asked about Betty’s book. He had been privy to her very first draft, written three years before. Her stories were about life as a gambler. For thirteen years she had won and lost fortunes, sitting at poker tables across the country with men like Jack Strauss and Amarillo Slim, risking life to hijackers, still able to spirit away tidy sums unknown to anyone but herself. Betty told McCarthy that so much had happened since that first draft that she was in the process of rewriting the whole story. Betty had allegedly been cheated in a Las Vegas casino scam. There were allegations of Gaming Commission and FBI coverups. Her case was then on appeal before the Nevada Supreme Court, ultimately to be thrown out because of the statute of limitations.
​She asked McCarthy if it was common for writers to do so much rewriting. He said he knew a few writers who would compose a hundred pages of a novel and then have to start over, but that he usually knew where his own novels were going from the start.
​Betty told McCarthy that she and I had written the screenplay of her story, and that ICM of Los Angeles had said it possessed some of the same appeal as Silkwood. She failed to mention that the agent had turned it down for being “awkwardly written,” because we’d portrayed Betty as an “arrogant and unsympathetic character,” and because “the authors seem inexperienced in mapping out dramatic framework.” She said, “I’m writing my book in a suspense format. I want it to be a best seller.”
​“I don’t read best sellers,” McCarthy said. Feeling responsible for the latest direction the book had taken, I explained, “What she means by ‘best seller’ is that she wants the facts of the casino scam to reach as many people as possible.” With a curt nod McCarthy indicated that he had understood that to be Betty’s meaning. He acted friendly yet cool toward me, a stranger.
​McCarthy asked if there was a particular author that Betty was patterning her novel after. I mentioned Ken Follett. McCarthy nodded and said that Follet (sic) was good. He mentioned also that Stephen King was a good writer. From his earlier comment on best sellers, I wasn’t sure if McCarthy had read these authors or if he was speaking from hearsay.
​“What do you read?” I asked. McCarthy said he read mostly nonfiction, although he did enjoy Hemingway. Betty and I had a conversation the day before with Irving Brown and his wife, proprietors of a used and rare book store on Mesa Avenue. An acquaintance of McCarthy as well as a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, Brown told us that McCarthy—an unpretentious man who often did his laundry right next door—considered Melville the greatest author, and that he read books about astronomy and physics. Brown especially liked the part in Suttree where Cornelius sees his reflection in the glass door and thinks, “Suttree and anti-Suttree.” Brown said that in his opinion McCarthy had over-read Plato.
​Betty mentioned how hard it was to find the time to write. When I said, “You have to be selfish,” McCarthy agreed, but substituted the word “ruthless.” Betty listed a few of the interruptions she had to put up with, eliciting McCarthy’s remark that he could write in a train station if he had to, but not if somebody kept asking for directions. McCarthy said that he wrote in the morning, every morning. “Why not write every day?” he asked rhetorically. “In the afternoon I visit friends. You can’t write all day long.”
​When Betty said she wished she could just run away from her obligations and be free to write, McCarthy recalled that once he had spent an entire year doing little more than playing pool with his friends.
​Betty and McCarthy talked about their lives, the consequences of their successes. Betty said that no more would she consent to interviews because so often they changed the story, often sensationalizing her life beyond reality. McCarthy agreed, saying that he would not do interviews.1 He told Betty that J. D. Salinger had given only one interview throughout his career as a novelist, to elementary children.
​“Do you teach?” I asked.
​Looking at me sternly, McCarthy said that he did not, and he seemed not to want to discuss it further. He mentioned an author, Robert Fulghum, who had published a somewhat humorous book about learning all you need to know by the time you graduate from kindergarten. McCarthy gave a few examples: “To tell the truth. Not to hit each other. To be fair.”
​Betty laughed. “I like that,” she said. From the things McCarthy said about academia, I understood him to believe that many of human beings’ problems arose from pursuits in education. In a later conversation about spiritual experiences, McCarthy said that education often got in the way of understanding. He added that in certain Eskimo cultures, art, of both high and low quality, was seen as good. Art was a personal expression. Nobody went around telling children how to do theirs differently.
​Betty said she felt different from most people in our society, that she was very much a loner and that her friends would not be considered mainstream. McCarthy referred to himself and Betty as “outlaws.” He gazed at her and said, “Look who we are. We’re desperate people.” They had both lived such uncommon lives that their spirits were easily kindred. I felt that my own life had been too sheltered.
​Again I asked McCarthy if he could recommend any good books or authors that a beginning writer should read. He said, “All great writers read all other great writers.” Upon further prodding, he mentioned several of John McFee’s books and The Song Lines by Bruce Chatwin. McCarthy said that he knew Larry McMurtry; because McCarthy loved the television movie “Lonesome Dove” so much, he said that he would never read the book.
​Betty mentioned her love of traveling and said that some people had suggested she write a book about her travels, or a how-to-on poker, and forget the nonsense about exposing the alleged casino scam that had cheated her out of many thousands of dollars. Betty asked about what she could and could not write about other people. McCarthy said that writers had great latitude in their writing and, on a question about other people’s ideas, said, “If you like it, use it.” I believe this came under the axiom that everything had already been written and that most ideas were neither unique in themselves nor original.
​Brunch ended and the coffee pot went dry. I picked up the bill. Betty and I drove the camper back to the motel with McCarthy following in his old beater. The exterior of his car had been sandblasted to the metal and touched up with primer paint. It looked prepped for the body shop. Even with my untrained ear, I could tell the engine ran well.
​At the motel Betty dug into her briefcase for her most recently drafted chapter, which she handed to McCarthy, apologizing for its not being typed. McCarthy said, “That’s all right. We’re friends. We do things like this for each other.”
​The next day, Betty and I met McCarthy at an out-of-the-way health food store that served frozen yogurt and sandwiches. We ordered at the counter and took seats at a small table next to the front window. After we were served, the conversation turned to writing. Betty asked which person it would be best to write her story in, and McCarthy said that was always a hard question to answer. He asked which person she felt most comfortable writing in, and Betty said that both the first and third had their benefits, but that she just couldn’t decide. She wanted McCarthy to tell her which to use, and he could not do that. He offered suggestions quite sparingly. To a question about how descriptive to make Betty’s book, McCarthy said that the point of most novels could be told in a paragraph. The reason they’re longer is so the author can tell a story. And he said, “Don’t ever treat your audience as if they’re stupid. Your reader is smart.”
​“Have you read Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying?” McCarthy asked. She had not. He explained that each chapter of the novel had been written in the first person from the perspective of each of the different characters. When he suggested that Betty might try something like that, I could see hopelessness on Betty’s face. She had been working on her book for over three years.
​McCarthy mentioned that Faulkner had written the novel during his spare moments while working on a manual labor job at night. He said that Faulkner had even used a wheelbarrow on which to compose the story. McCarthy said that Faulkner never expected the novel to become great, and that the novel had a certain amateurish quality that gave the book its great appeal. He said that Betty should not be overly concerned if her writing was not professional, and that she should try to retain the natural quality that her writing had, as that was often the mark of literature. Because Betty was having trouble getting the most recent draft of the novel started, McCarthy suggested that she could try writing the ending of her story first, then the beginning. He told her to get a tape recorder and tell her stories into a microphone and then play them back.
​Betty talked about the most recent developments of her story, but even with McCarthy she was hesitant to reveal many of the specifics. McCarthy became curious when Betty described the four levels by which she categorized poker players. She explained that the top two levels involved the reading of “tells” (short for “telegraphing”), and the ability to send out misleading “false tells.” She mentioned how she tested people by asking “set up” questions and viewing their responses. She would often ask questions to which she was sure a person would lie, and then remember what behaviors accompanied those responses.
​“Fascinating,” McCarthy said. “Do I have any tells?”
​Betty laughed and studied him more closely. “I haven’t noticed any yet.”
​That night, in a freak blizzard, Betty and I drove to a motel across town where Frank Morton was spending the night on his way home from Los Angeles. Frank was the classic itinerant gambler, as well as a somewhat unorthodox evangelist. He was the liaison who had initially brought McCarthy and Betty together.
​A tall man with graying hair, Frank spoke with a voice that was garbled with years of cigarette smoking, and his breathing was labored. I found him friendly and rather opinionated, but he would listen to your ideas if you could break into the stream of his talk.
​After McCarthy arrived, we all climbed into Frank’s car. The snow and sleet moved on, leaving a violent sand storm in its wake. Frank followed McCarthy’s directions to a Mexican restaurant, and by the time we got there, the wind had died. Frank talked on about the hate among the races in L.A., about people’s lack of trust and the general downfall of the human condition. Each of us added opinions now and then, but it was Frank who monopolized the conversation and filled the air with smoke. We were his congregation. McCarthy sat and listened, offering few observations of his own.
​Back at his motel room, Frank related a number of personal religious experiences that he had had over the years, pointing out the flaws in other people’s lack of faith. I challenged him, saying that one day science would understand these unexplained phenomena for what they really were.
​McCarthy commented that some cultures used drugs to enhance the spiritual experience, and that he had tried LSD before the drug was made illegal. He said that it had helped to open his eyes to these kinds of experiences. Betty recounted having seen the image of Christ on a bus while in Costa Rica. This had been at a time following the casino scam when Betty had been on the run. She said that her experience was as real as our sitting together in the motel room. It had not been a dream or hallucination.
​Always the skeptic, I said, “But how does that prove Christianity? Why not Buddha or Allah? You saw Jesus because you were raised in Jesus-land.” I looked to Frank and McCarthy. Their expressions were sympathetic.
​McCarthy was slumped into one of the chairs with his left leg slung over the arm rest. He appeared a very patient listener. He said that he felt sorry for me because I was unable to grasp this concept of spiritual experience. He said that people all over the world, in every religion, were familiar with this experience. He asked if I’d ever read William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience. I had not. His attitude seemed to indicate that in this book were the answers to many of the questions posed during our evening discussion. I was nonplussed. ​ ​“Truth,” McCarthy said about what writers must accomplish in their writing.
​“But what exactly is truth?” I asked.
​“Truth,” he repeated, his implications tacit.
​The next morning, Betty and I were at the motel when McCarthy arrived to go over his response to Betty’s chapter. He had written his critique on separate, smaller pieces of paper. Point by point, he went over his comments, offering occasional praise while not sparing the rod. Afterwards, I listed the three qualities I believed necessary for a person to become a successful writher: “To read a lot. To write a lot. To experience a lot.” McCarthy said that we all had experience enough from which to write.
​Months after our visit, I wrote McCarthy, completing a few thoughts I’d been unable to that night we discussed spiritual experiences. Some time later, I received his reply.
​He said that the religious experience is always described through the symbols of a particular culture and thus is somewhat misrepresented by them. He indicated that even the religious person is often uncomfortable with such experiences and accounts of them, and that those who have not had a religious experience cannot comprehend it through second-hand accounts, even good ones like James’s Varieties of Religious Experience. He went on to say that he thinks the mystical experience is a direct apprehension of reality, unmediated by symbol, and he ended with the thought that our inability to see spiritual truth is the greater mystery.
NOTES
1 He has recently made an exception to this rule, granting an interview to the Richard B. Woodward of the New York Times Magazine on the occasion of the publication of All the Pretty Horses. My account of our visit with McCarthy, neither intended nor conducted as an interview, is published here with his knowledge.

Hi everyone! I am fairly new to modding and I have some troubles with my current modded Fallout New Vegas game. When I load up the game it sometimes does not display the main menu. This is not the main issue. When the menu does load properly, I can start a new game and go through the whole introduction with any issues. But whenever I try to leave Doc Mitchell's house, the game crashes. I sorted my load order using loot. Perhaps you guys can help me to find out where the problems are hiding. Many thanks in advance. The load order is a follows:
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Hi everyone. I have encountered an issue where my game freezes up and crashes as soon as I try to enter the Lucky 38 Casino. My modded game otherwise runs with any issues (or crashes for that matter) and I have currently circumvented this problem by using the 'player.moveto' command to teleport to a companion in the Lucky 38 suite (which does not crash for some reason). But I want to fix this because I have the mod 'Run the Lucky 38' installed and I want to get my casino up and running to make some caps. Any ideas what might cause this crash?
My load order:
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11 b NVInteriors_Core.esm
12 c Better New Vegas.esm
13 d Interior Lighting Overhaul - Core.esm
14 e ZionTrail.esm
15 f oHUD.esm
16 10 BraveNewWorld.esm
17 11 Functional Post Game Ending.esm
18 12 MoreChems.esp
19 13 Run the Lucky 38.esm
20 14 Navmesh Fixes and Improvements.esm
21 15 ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm
22 16 Lucky38Suite_Reloaded.esm
23 17 Interior Lighting Overhaul - L38PS.esm
24 18 ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm
25 19 BurrowingCreatures.esm
26 1a FCOMaster.esm
27 1b NVStripOpen.esm
28 1c NVR-Strip.esm
29 1d Project Nevada - Core.esm
30 1e Project Nevada - Equipment.esm
31 1f Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp
32 20 Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp
33 21 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.esm
34 22 YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
35 23 Unofficial Patch NVSE.esp
36 24 Cass Barks.esp
37 25 NVR-Version_10.esp
38 26 Vurt's WFO.esp
39 27 Uncut Wasteland.esp
40 28 The Lucky 38 Empire.esp
41 29 Asterra's Many Fixes.esp
42 2a Ammo Count Memory.esp
43 2b ILO - PipBoy Light.esp
44 2c ILO - YUP Patch.esp
45 2d BushSounds.esp
46 2e ImmersivePickupSoundsFNV.esp
47 2f Project Reality Footsteps.esp
48 30 dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp
49 31 Project Nevada - Gun Runners' Arsenal.esp
50 32 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
51 33 All Weapon Sounds Overhaul .esp
52 34 Explosive Sounds Overhaul.esp
53 35 CCSP2_5d.esp
54 36 FCO - NPC Changes.esp
55 37 CNR_Beta.esp
56 38 T4-plugin.esp
57 39 Roberts_NewVegas.esp
58 3a Better Burned Man.esp
59 3b Gambling.esp
60 3c Better Casinos.esp
61 3d IMPACT.esp
62 3e NoDegrade.esp
63 3f LightUpAndSmokeThoseCigarettes_edisleado.esp
64 40 populatedcasino.esp
65 41 StripOpenMain.esp
66 42 LeatherBackpack - eng.esp
67 43 Leather backpack - rus.esp
68 44 1nivVSLArmors.esp
69 45 GRA - The Right to Bear Arms.esp
70 46 ZionTrail-NV.esp
71 47 ZK13 - Return of the Eyebots.esp
72 48 FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting - All DLC.esp
73 49 NVR-NPCs.esp
74 4a FactionWastelandPresence.esp
75 4b MojaveSandyDesert.esp
76 4c NewVegasExtendedMapMarkers.esp
77 4d classicambientmusic.esp
78 4e Vanilla Intro Plus.esp
79 4f Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Leveled.Lists.esp
80 50 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Honest.Hearts.Grunt.Patch.esp
81 51 NoMainStoryUltimatums.esp
82 52 Improved Ballistics Effects V2.esp
83 53 Cloth Impacts - Decal and Effects.esp
84 54 Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp
85 55 Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp
86 56 Project Nevada - Old World Blues.esp
87 57 Project Nevada - Lonesome Road.esp
88 58 Project Nevada - EVE All DLC.esp
89 59 Real Recoil.esp
90 5a realistic headshots.esp
91 5b boa ncrpahelmet.esp
92 5c Boacombat2glove.esp
93 5d LootMenu.esp
94 5e MoreBeardAndMoustacheStyles.esp
95 5f Passive Startup Messages.esp
96 60 FCO - Roberts Patch.esp
97 61 FCO - Race Addon.esp
98 62 CASM with MCM.esp
99 63 FCO - HD Teeth.esp
100 64 LiveDismember.esp
101 65 NPCs Can Miss.esp
102 66 The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
103 67 BraveNewWorld-YUP.esp
104 68 FCO - OHSB NPC Edits.esp
105 69 BraveNewWorld-CNR.esp
106 6a BraveNewWorld-FPGE.esp
107 6b Companion Sandbox Mode3.esp
108 6c SunnyCompanion.esp
109 6d Near Death.esp
110 6e Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Cheat.Cabinet.esp
111 6f DIM TYPE3clothesRETAIL.esp
112 70 BraveNewWorld-UncutWastelandNPCs.esp
113 71 Interior Lighting Overhaul - Ultimate Edition.esp
114 72 ILO - GS Shack.esp
115 73 NevadaSkies.esp

I know I can merge down a number of these mods, especially the patches. I'll decide on that after I know what other mods I may want to add that won't brick the game.
I'm not really looking for anything in particular, just any mods that are pretty good and stable that I haven't thought of.
EDIT: Updated the mod list for any new suggesting people.
Here is the list of mods (and DLCs at the bottom) I have installed:

# This file was automatically generated by Mod Organizer. +New Vegas Bounties II - Radiant Quest Redux +Salt Lake Stories +Zion Trail +Quick Use +Craftable Bobbypins +Immersive Minigames +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Misc Item Icons - New Vegas +Misc Item Icons - New Vegas +Skill Bonus Misc. Items +Tammer's NIF-Bashed Weapons Mega-Pack +Various Fallout Who (FWV) Location Patches +The Depths of Depravity +Auto Unlock Lite +Bottle Rinse Repeat +Battle For The South +Killable Children +Casino Heists - New Vegas (Updated Navmeshes) +Better Pickup Prompt +Better Casinos +Five Aces +Eliza +Dead Money - Even More Return Options +Dead Money - More vending machines codes and recipes +Dead Money Horror Overhaul +Vault 22 Flora Overhaul +BOS Unforgotten Delayer +Brotherhood of Steel Unforgotten +Faction Wasteland Presence Compilation +Intense Training 30 +JIP Faction Avatar Expansion +Perks Per Level +More Perks Fixed +More Perks +Da Wrecka's Perks +Vendors and Adventures of the Mojave +Vault-HQ1 NV - House On The Hill +Vendortron Expanded +Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover +Bazzas Extra Map Markers +Rags to Riches (Treasures of the Wastes) +Casino UnBanner - Dead Money +Casino UnBanner +Titans of The New West +DiDisaan's Patch Emporium - Legion Quests Expanded +JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Legion Quests Expanded +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Legion Quests Expanded +Legion Quests Expanded +Mary-Jo Casey Companion +The ARES Project +Vulpes Inculta - Fully-Voiced Legion Companion +Caesars New Regime - Legion Overhaul +Factions Reloaded - Merge +Ulysses Companion Mod +The Most Dangerous Game +Milton and Hans +Rogue the Sentry Bot Companion +Removable Robot Arms +Harvey the Ghost +Dark Star Alien +Rusty the Bear - Companion Mod +Niner +Delilah- Mojave MD +Bandit the Ghoul +New Vegas Uncut 6 - If It Wasn't For Betsy Remastered +Desmond Harper Companion +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - I Fought the Law - NCR Start +I Fought the Law - NCR Start -Monster Mod - Additions +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - The Rockwell Pursuit +The Rockwell Pursuit +The Storyteller Companion - Official Mod of The ShoddyCast +RobCo Certified - New Vegas +Cabot's Quest -Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Monster Mod -Monster Mod +3dnpc +Willow - A Better Companion Experience +MD Trilogy Remastered +Overhauled NPCs +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - The Initiation +The Initiation +Headhunting +Of Truth and Lies - New Quests. Weapons and Armours +Death's Last Whisper - Angel of Death Update +Simply Uncut - New Vegas V.1.9.1 - The Hotfix +The Living Desert - Travelers Patrols Consequences Increased Population and more +MikeBurnFire Companions Complete +Courier Vests +Honest Hearts Reborn Delayer +Honest Hearts Reborn +Old World Radio +Music Pack for Radio NV - 250 Songs +Platinum Radio - A New Radio for New Vegas +Existence 2-0 -Robot Radio- +CONELRAD 640-1240 - Civil Defense Radio +Old World Blues - Keep Big MT Active +Improved Transportalponder - Old World Blues +Dead Money Overhaul +AG Supplementary Uniques +Classic Fallout Weapons - New Vegas +Weapons Of The New Millenia And MTindle COMPLETE Pack +new_vegas_ +JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Ragdolls +JSawyer Ultimate Edition Patches +JSawyer Ultimate Edition +New World Parliament 4 +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Tales from the Burning Sands Complete All Three Chapters +Tales from the Burning Sands Complete All Three Chapters +Fallout Who Vegas - Xoanon's Additions and Fixes +Fallout Who Vegas - Complete +The New Bison Steve Hotel and Lucky Casino +War Trash 2 - Do We Not Bleed - Quest Mod +War Trash - Quest Mod +Speedy Resources +Loot All Cars Trucks Golf Carts Vehicles +DiDisaan's Patch Emporium +Courier's Cache Delayer +The Couriers Cache +New Vegas Railroads +NVInteriors Rewritten +NV Interiors Project Addon +The N.V. Interiors Project +Boom to the Moon +Delay Blood By The Dollar +Blood By The Dollar +Saxxons Quest Collection +For the Enclave +Beyond Boulder Dome Delayer +Beyond Boulder Dome +Deimos -The Better Angels -New Vegas Bounties III +Bad Mothafucka +King of the Ring +Russell +The Inheritance +New Vegas Bounties II Fixes +New Vegas Bounties II +New Vegas Bounties I +The Someguy Series +The North Road Remastered +Th3Overseer's Core ESM +Autumn Leaves Delayer +YUP - Autumn Leaves Patch +Autumn Leaves +Afterschool Special +Sortomatic - Modders Resource +Beyond The Beef Tweaks +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending - YUP +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Wasteland +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending +The Moon Comes Over The Tower - Restored +Cut Sewers Restored +Uncut Wasteland +Honest Hearts Workbench Crate Luck +Better NCR Supply Cache +Dead Money Toxic Cloud Fix +Yukichigai Gameplay Tweaks +Melee Cleave (a.k.a. Sweep) +Follower Tweaks +Mojave Raiders +Mojave Wildlife +Mojave Arsenal +Dynamic Pipboy Light +Realistic Wasteland Lighting Tweaked +Old World Blues - Path Lighting +Simple Street Lights ESP Replacer +Simple_Street_Lights_v1_1 +Pip-Boy 2501 +Cyberware 2281 +Simple Explosive Entry +Project Nevada - Enhanced Vision +Zooming Scope +Quick Grenade Hotkey +Dbp's Sprint Mod +VATS Alternative - A Comprehensive Bullet Time Mod -Retextured Playing Cards -Jokerine +Glowing Star Bottle Cap +Worn-Out Scope Crosshair Replacers -Cleaver and Chopper Retexture -Minimod - High Resolution Newspapers -Securitron Hires retexture -High Res Vanilla Water Bottle Textures and Meshes -Vanilla Loading Screens HD -Textures Over Time -PM's HD Legion Overhaul -PM's HD Ranger Outfits -ADAM Reborn -Book of Steel - Compatibility Edition -Bornagain Combat Armor -aMidianBorn NV Book Of Water -High Res Vanilla Posters and Graffiti -PM's Med-Textures - HD Chems and Venoms +Pause Menu HD -PM's HD Ammo Boxes +EXE - Effect teXtures Enhanced +Complete Respec +Melee Reach Fixed- Ultimate Edition +SafeAutoSave +Barton Thorn Acts Normally +Alternative Repairing -Faction Armor Redone +Immersive Recoil 2.0 +More Realistic Aiming Fixed +Character Creation Streamlined +Universal Headwear DT Boost +DT Multiplier and DR Adder (MCM) (JIP LN NVSE) (Compatible with Everything) +Combat Enhancer +Enemy AI - Tactics - NPC Healing +Just Mods Assorted - EII patch +Just Mods Assorted +Enhanced Item Info - Extra UI HUD +Ragdolls +Unnecessary Physics +Hectrol Tumbleweed compatibility +OJO BUENO Texture Pack compatibility +PrecisionCollisionClutterFix +Collision Meshes +Hectrol Tumbleweed Deluxe HighRes Retex +Precision Collision - Clutter NV -POCO BUENO Texture Pack -NMCs_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas +Simple DLC Delay +Tutorial Killer +The Weapon Mod Menu +JIP Improved Recipe Menu +JIP Companions Command and Control +JIP Selective-Fire +(Upscaled) Consistent Pip-Boy Icons +Universal Item Sorter +Inventory Search +Quest Item Hider +FOV Slider +Vanilla_UI_Plus_Remastered_Patch_1 +Vanilla_UI_Plus_Loot_Menu_Patch +Vanilla UI Plus (New Vegas) +Vanilla HUD Remastered +One HUD - oHUD +UIO - User Interface Organizer +FNV Mod Limit Fix +FNV Occlusion Overhaul +Fix Hit Lines +Throwable Weapon Fixes +Fix for the Caesar Legion Armors +MCM BugFix +The Mod Configuration Menu +Navmesh Fixes and Improvements +Unofficial Patch NVSE +Stewie Tweaks Preset by Axonis +lStewieAl's Tweaks +Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP +OneTweak for FNV +NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix +NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash +JohnnyGuitar NVSE +JIP LN NVSE Plugin *DLC: CaravanPack *DLC: ClassicPack *DLC: DeadMoney *DLC: GunRunnersArsenal *DLC: HonestHearts *DLC: LonesomeRoad *DLC: MercenaryPack *DLC: OldWorldBlues *DLC: TribalPack 

I know I can merge down a number of these mods, especially the patches. I'll decide on that after I know what other mods I may want to add that won't brick the game.
I'm not really looking for anything in particular, just any mods that are pretty good and stable that I haven't thought of.
Here is the list of mods (and DLCs at the bottom) I have installed:

# This file was automatically generated by Mod Organizer. +New Vegas Bounties II - Radiant Quest Redux +Salt Lake Stories +Zion Trail +Quick Use +Craftable Bobbypins +Immersive Minigames +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Misc Item Icons - New Vegas +Misc Item Icons - New Vegas +Skill Bonus Misc. Items +Tammer's NIF-Bashed Weapons Mega-Pack +Various Fallout Who (FWV) Location Patches +The Depths of Depravity +Auto Unlock Lite +Bottle Rinse Repeat +Battle For The South +Killable Children +Casino Heists - New Vegas (Updated Navmeshes) +Better Pickup Prompt +Better Casinos +Five Aces +Eliza +Dead Money - Even More Return Options +Dead Money - More vending machines codes and recipes +Dead Money Horror Overhaul +Vault 22 Flora Overhaul +BOS Unforgotten Delayer +Brotherhood of Steel Unforgotten +Faction Wasteland Presence Compilation +Intense Training 30 +JIP Faction Avatar Expansion +Perks Per Level +More Perks Fixed +More Perks +Da Wrecka's Perks +Vendors and Adventures of the Mojave +Vault-HQ1 NV - House On The Hill +Vendortron Expanded +Ultimate Invisible Wall Remover +Bazzas Extra Map Markers +Rags to Riches (Treasures of the Wastes) +Casino UnBanner - Dead Money +Casino UnBanner +Titans of The New West +DiDisaan's Patch Emporium - Legion Quests Expanded +JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Legion Quests Expanded +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Legion Quests Expanded +Legion Quests Expanded +Mary-Jo Casey Companion +The ARES Project +Vulpes Inculta - Fully-Voiced Legion Companion +Caesars New Regime - Legion Overhaul +Factions Reloaded - Merge +Ulysses Companion Mod +The Most Dangerous Game +Milton and Hans +Rogue the Sentry Bot Companion +Removable Robot Arms +Harvey the Ghost +Dark Star Alien +Rusty the Bear - Companion Mod +Niner +Delilah- Mojave MD +Bandit the Ghoul +New Vegas Uncut 6 - If It Wasn't For Betsy Remastered +Desmond Harper Companion +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - I Fought the Law - NCR Start +I Fought the Law - NCR Start -Monster Mod - Additions +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - The Rockwell Pursuit +The Rockwell Pursuit +The Storyteller Companion - Official Mod of The ShoddyCast +RobCo Certified - New Vegas +Cabot's Quest -Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Monster Mod -Monster Mod +3dnpc +Willow - A Better Companion Experience +MD Trilogy Remastered +Overhauled NPCs +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - The Initiation +The Initiation +Headhunting +Of Truth and Lies - New Quests. Weapons and Armours +Death's Last Whisper - Angel of Death Update +Simply Uncut - New Vegas V.1.9.1 - The Hotfix +The Living Desert - Travelers Patrols Consequences Increased Population and more +MikeBurnFire Companions Complete +Courier Vests +Honest Hearts Reborn Delayer +Honest Hearts Reborn +Old World Radio +Music Pack for Radio NV - 250 Songs +Platinum Radio - A New Radio for New Vegas +Existence 2-0 -Robot Radio- +CONELRAD 640-1240 - Civil Defense Radio +Old World Blues - Keep Big MT Active +Improved Transportalponder - Old World Blues +Dead Money Overhaul +AG Supplementary Uniques +Classic Fallout Weapons - New Vegas +Weapons Of The New Millenia And MTindle COMPLETE Pack +new_vegas_ +JSawyer Ultimate Edition - Ragdolls +JSawyer Ultimate Edition Patches +JSawyer Ultimate Edition +New World Parliament 4 +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP - Tales from the Burning Sands Complete All Three Chapters +Tales from the Burning Sands Complete All Three Chapters +Fallout Who Vegas - Xoanon's Additions and Fixes +Fallout Who Vegas - Complete +The New Bison Steve Hotel and Lucky Casino +War Trash 2 - Do We Not Bleed - Quest Mod +War Trash - Quest Mod +Speedy Resources +Loot All Cars Trucks Golf Carts Vehicles +DiDisaan's Patch Emporium +Courier's Cache Delayer +The Couriers Cache +New Vegas Railroads +NVInteriors Rewritten +NV Interiors Project Addon +The N.V. Interiors Project +Boom to the Moon +Delay Blood By The Dollar +Blood By The Dollar +Saxxons Quest Collection +For the Enclave +Beyond Boulder Dome Delayer +Beyond Boulder Dome +Deimos -The Better Angels -New Vegas Bounties III +Bad Mothafucka +King of the Ring +Russell +The Inheritance +New Vegas Bounties II Fixes +New Vegas Bounties II +New Vegas Bounties I +The Someguy Series +The North Road Remastered +Th3Overseer's Core ESM +Autumn Leaves Delayer +YUP - Autumn Leaves Patch +Autumn Leaves +Afterschool Special +Sortomatic - Modders Resource +Beyond The Beef Tweaks +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending - YUP +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending - Uncut Wasteland +FPGE - Functional Post Game Ending +The Moon Comes Over The Tower - Restored +Cut Sewers Restored +Uncut Wasteland +Honest Hearts Workbench Crate Luck +Better NCR Supply Cache +Dead Money Toxic Cloud Fix +Yukichigai Gameplay Tweaks +Melee Cleave (a.k.a. Sweep) +Follower Tweaks +Mojave Raiders +Mojave Wildlife +Mojave Arsenal +Dynamic Pipboy Light +Realistic Wasteland Lighting Tweaked +Old World Blues - Path Lighting +Simple Street Lights ESP Replacer +Simple_Street_Lights_v1_1 +Pip-Boy 2501 +Cyberware 2281 +Simple Explosive Entry +Project Nevada - Enhanced Vision +Zooming Scope +Quick Grenade Hotkey +Dbp's Sprint Mod +VATS Alternative - A Comprehensive Bullet Time Mod -Retextured Playing Cards -Jokerine +Glowing Star Bottle Cap +Worn-Out Scope Crosshair Replacers -Cleaver and Chopper Retexture -Minimod - High Resolution Newspapers -Securitron Hires retexture -High Res Vanilla Water Bottle Textures and Meshes -Vanilla Loading Screens HD -Textures Over Time -PM's HD Legion Overhaul -PM's HD Ranger Outfits -ADAM Reborn -Book of Steel - Compatibility Edition -Bornagain Combat Armor -aMidianBorn NV Book Of Water -High Res Vanilla Posters and Graffiti -PM's Med-Textures - HD Chems and Venoms +Pause Menu HD -PM's HD Ammo Boxes +EXE - Effect teXtures Enhanced +Complete Respec +Melee Reach Fixed- Ultimate Edition +SafeAutoSave +Barton Thorn Acts Normally +Alternative Repairing -Faction Armor Redone +Immersive Recoil 2.0 +More Realistic Aiming Fixed +Character Creation Streamlined +Universal Headwear DT Boost +DT Multiplier and DR Adder (MCM) (JIP LN NVSE) (Compatible with Everything) +Combat Enhancer +Enemy AI - Tactics - NPC Healing +Just Mods Assorted - EII patch +Just Mods Assorted +Enhanced Item Info - Extra UI HUD +Ragdolls +Unnecessary Physics +Hectrol Tumbleweed compatibility +OJO BUENO Texture Pack compatibility +PrecisionCollisionClutterFix +Collision Meshes +Hectrol Tumbleweed Deluxe HighRes Retex +Precision Collision - Clutter NV -POCO BUENO Texture Pack -NMCs_Texture_Pack_For_New_Vegas +Simple DLC Delay +Tutorial Killer +The Weapon Mod Menu +JIP Improved Recipe Menu +JIP Companions Command and Control +JIP Selective-Fire +(Upscaled) Consistent Pip-Boy Icons +Universal Item Sorter +Inventory Search +Quest Item Hider +FOV Slider +Vanilla_UI_Plus_Remastered_Patch_1 +Vanilla_UI_Plus_Loot_Menu_Patch +Vanilla UI Plus (New Vegas) +Vanilla HUD Remastered +One HUD - oHUD +UIO - User Interface Organizer +FNV Mod Limit Fix +FNV Occlusion Overhaul +Fix Hit Lines +Throwable Weapon Fixes +Fix for the Caesar Legion Armors +MCM BugFix +The Mod Configuration Menu +Navmesh Fixes and Improvements +Console Paste Support +Unofficial Patch NVSE +Stewie Tweaks Preset by Axonis +lStewieAl's Tweaks +Weapon Mesh Improvement Mod +Yukichigai Unofficial Patch - YUP +OneTweak for FNV +NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix +NVAC - New Vegas Anti Crash +JohnnyGuitar NVSE +JIP LN NVSE Plugin *DLC: CaravanPack *DLC: ClassicPack *DLC: DeadMoney *DLC: GunRunnersArsenal *DLC: HonestHearts *DLC: LonesomeRoad *DLC: MercenaryPack *DLC: OldWorldBlues *DLC: TribalPack 

I've seen a lot of this stuff pop up before on this sub but I haven't been able to find a post that contains all of this information together. I'm just kind of bored and wanted to highlight the origins/locations/details of all of the album covers used in the band's discography.
As a disclaimer, nearly all of this stuff has been discovered and even posted on this subreddit before, so I'm not taking any credit for most of the stuff here. I would like to give credit where it is due, but given the large number of people and non-redditors that have found the same things, I wouldn't even know where to begin on some of these. I simply dug out as much info as I could find and conglomerated this all into a single post. Also, if I'm incorrect about anything here or if there is anything else that you can add, please comment. That being said, here it is...
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Death Grips (EP)
Album Cover
The album cover for Death Grips's original project is actually just a negative image of a distorted looking screenshot from the first few seconds of this music video for Full Moon (Death Classic). Here. It begins with a short video clip of a man speaking while a crow pecks at the dead carcass of what looks to be another crow. Although I've tried looking I cannot find the origins of the video.
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Exmilitary
Album Cover
As stated from these posts (1) (2) the cover for the Exmilitary mixtape appears to be a old photograph folded and unfolded into quarters from a book called The Dark Australians by Douglass Baglin and David R. Moore. As u/ebbsey said:

While i feel like i am spoiling the end of a movie...... here goes. The photograph was taken in 1968 at or around what was then know as Oenpelli Mission, today it's called Gunbalanya. The photographer was Douglass Baglin, he published a series of books primarily on Australian heritage throughout the 1970s with a few devoted to Aboriginal themes, his photographs also appeared in other Australian publications used like stock photos. In regards to the identity of the Aboriginal man, Baglin, like many photographers at the time never recorded who he was and simply called him "bearded man at Oenpelli".

The photos: (1) (2)
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The Money Store
Album Cover
The Cover is a rendition of a photo taken at the Folsom Street Fair in San Fancisco in 2007 painted by artist Sua Yoo, who is also the girl on the cover of Fashion Week. The entire collection of photos can be found here (Warning: VERY NSFW). According to this Pitchfork article, Death Grips describes the cover as follows: "On the cover you have an androgynous masochist on the leash of a feminist sadist who's smoking. The sadist has carved Death Grips into her bitch's chest. There is an overly confident quality to the woman smoking and a calmness to the androgynous masochist."
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No Love Deep Web
Album Cover (NSFW)
As most of you already know, this controversial cover is a photo of Zach Hill's erect penis with the album title written across it in black marker. It was taken in a bathroom at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles, which the band stayed in for an entire two months leading to the leak of the album on their website, which resulted in their dropping from Epic Records. The album cover was met with much controversy, and they were forced to censor the image on their website, YouTube, and SoundCloud, covering the penis with a black bar. On some music platforms, the penis is censored via pixelation instead.
Wikipedia says: In an interview with Spin Magazine, Ride responded to the interest by saying, "If you look at that and all you see is a dick, I don't really have anything to say, pretty much. I looked at it and said, 'This is a great photo, and I'd love for this to be the album cover.'" Hill further explained, "It was difficult to do, honestly, in general, it was very difficult. It's difficult even telling people that's the source of it; it feels sacrificial in a sense. That idea existed long before, by the way. This is going to sound funny to other people, but we saw it as tribal, as spiritual, as primal. Also, it comes from a place of being a band that is perceived as...such an aggressive, male-based, by some, misogynistic-seeming band... It's a display of embracing homosexuality, not that either of us are homosexual. Am I making sense? People are still going to think that it's macho, but that's not the source of where it comes from." In a separate interview with Pitchfork, Hill expounded, "It's also a spiritual thing; it's fearlessness...it represents pushing past everything that makes people slaves without even knowing it."
There is also an alternate cover featuring Ride wearing mismatched dress shoes with white socks that say "SUCK MY DICK."
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Government Plates
Album Cover
This is a really simple cover that features what looks to be a slightly tilted 3D model or photo of a California Exempt (for official vehicles exempt from registration fees) license plate that says "DEATH" over a black background. While this is just speculation on my part, California exempt license plates can only have a maximum of six characters, which could possibly be the reason why the license plate says "DEATH" and not "DEATH GRIPS" like some of their other album covers. As u/mutesirens discovered in this post, when viewed on an iPod Classic, the license plate appears completely flat, which is kind of creepy (in a good way).
On Record Store Day 2014, 900 new vinyl copies of Government Plates were released with new artwork showing some of the 3D models from the music videos over the original cover. These records also came with a physical replica of the license plate on the cover.
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N***as on the Moon
Album Cover
The cover features a blurry, black and white photo of Ride walking through what is believed to be Sacramento City Cemetery. This Cemetery is located in Ride and Zach's hometown and is right off of Broadway. In the song Up My Sleeves (the first song from this album), Ride mentions a "Broadway Cemetery" multiple times. It also appears to be the same cemetery from Black Google, the I've Seen Footage video, and the infamous moth photo.
Although this is nothing but speculation, and most people believe "Jenny Death" refers to Marilyn Monroe, there is also a grave in this cemetery for a "Baby Jenny," who was an African American infant who died of worms in 1853. One user on imgur used this info to try and pinpoint the exact location where the album cover was taken here. Although this is very cool, the mausoleum (tomb building thing) from the google Earth view looks to be in a different spot than the one from the album cover, as there is a road directly in front of it. Using the cemetery's website, I found a plot map and grave directory to use with Google maps to try and find the spot myself. Unfortunately, it is a massive cemetery that is covered in trees, and there were no street view photos of the areas I was trying to look in. The plot map is also from 1975 and appears to be slightly out of date, and there may have been some renovations or plant growth since 2014 when the album released. I found it impossible to find a location that looked similar to the one taken for the album cover.
I did however, look through photos that tourists had taken and posted online, and found this photo, which shows a mausoleum eerily similar to the one used on the cover, having the same size, shape, door, immediate surroundings, and even similar shadows. According to the grave directory, it should be located at plot 31, which should be well within viewing distance on plot 19, however I still couldn't see anything well from Google maps. Hopefully a fan in Sacramento can one day visit the cemetery and try and find it and post some better photos.
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Fashion Week
Album Cover
The chair is located in the Silver Legacy Resort Casino in Reno, Nevada. It sits on the second floor in the hotel lobby and has evidently changed upholstery color since 2015. The girl is Sua Yoo, who also painted the artwork for The Money Store.
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Jenny Death
Album Cover
The glass mural of Marilyn Monroe can be found in the Cheetah's Club on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. Many people speculate that the name "Jenny Death" comes from Monroe's real name: Norma Jeane Mortenson. Jeane = Jenny, Mortenson = Morte = Death. Many elements of the album also revolve around themes of fame and how destructive it can be, which was perfectly illustrated with the later years of the actress's life. Thanks u/Arthurlurk1 for posting the photos.
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The Powers That B
Album Cover
The artwork actually made its first appearance in 2012 in some of the music videos for The Money Store. In the Blackjack music video, the outer rim of the circle appears blackened and sits in the center of the screen rotating while videos play on the inside. In the I've Seen Footage video, it appears in full view at one point and shows up again slightly edited out a few more times, something that was pointed out in this post.
It's basically just a blue ground light with some condensation on the inside. Here's someone else's post with a similar one they found. I can't find exactly where this particular light is located, but in the Inanimate Sensation music video, it can be seen from multiple angles next to Zach while he's laying down on a sidewalk next to a tree smoking a cigarette.
The scratching on the light that says "Death Grips" is not real. You can tell because of the way that the scratching goes off onto the pavement on the left and because there's no apparent dip around the edges. It looks nearly identical to the scratching on the bitch's chest from the cover of The Money Store.
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Interview 2016
Album Cover
This one's easy. It's just a screen grab of Matthew Hoffman from the Interview 2016 video. You can see it at the 12:10 mark.
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Bottomless Pit
Album Cover
The mouth on the cover belongs to Liz Liles Brown, confirmed by her own Instagram post. She is also believed by many to be the voice of "Mexican Girl" from Lord of the Game, but nobody has confirmed nor denied this. It is not confirmed where the cover was taken nor do we know exactly what we're looking at, but Liz did post this photo of herself on Twitter in late 2014, where it looks like she is wearing huge lit-up balloon eye balls where her head is positioned in the middle like on the album cover. Link for both photos. Given Death Grips's history of quietly working with people for years and photographing album covers well before the release date, it could very well be possible that the photo was taken in late 2014. It could also be possible that the Twitter photo was something completely different, and the group instead used large balloons like the ones found at teamLab Planet Tokyo.
A video loop version of the album cover appears on YouTube for each of the tracks on Bottomless Pit, showing Liz rapidly flipping her tongue between the big balloon things while saliva drips down her chin.
There have been a few theories floating around as to what the album cover means, with some saying that it looks like sexual imagery for cunnilingus, which may be supported by the videos on YouTube. The most supported theory is that the balloons are supposed to represent giant eyeballs like the annoying fan in the Inanimate Sensation music video, which sees Ride with giant googly eyes kind of like the Bottomless Pit cover. The photo of Liz in 2014 also definitely looks like giant eyeballs since they have black circles on the balloons. The lyrics for the title track Bottomless Pit mention "Gagballs drooling pools," which could explain the saliva and tongue flipping from the YouTube videos as well.
My guess is that the album is supposed to be about rabid fans personified by a drooling creature, who were given "Bad Ideas" from the band and are falling down a "bottomless pit," making their eyes pop out of their head, eternally getting "fucked in half" by new content from the band.
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Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)
Album Cover
The dragon mural can be found hanging on the wall at Simon's Bar & Cafe in Sacramento. The glowing red eyes are actually real and weren't edited in.
In the music video. the dragon is shown flashing different colors rapidly
In 2019, the EP was printed on vinyl and shipped with a slightly altered cover that included a white border, the band name, and a parental advisory badge. The vinyl release also included the songs More Than the Fairy and Electronic Drum Solo, using the artwork for the former on the back cover.
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Year of the Snitch
Album Cover
If you look closely at the cover, you can figure out that it's a (plastic?) patio table, with someone (probably Zach) sticking their lips and tongue out through the umbrella hole in the center of the table. The mouth was then copied and pasted to other areas of the table at various rotations and sizes, while another shot of the mouth wide open was enlarged and pasted on the table by itself. The hand of the person under the table is gripping the edge of the table for balance on the top left, and you can see part of a patio chair on the top right. You can a closeup of the mouth moving at the 0:33 mark in the Year of the Snitch tracklist video. The location of the patio table is unknown.
The album and accompanying media that was released on YouTube features a lot of themes about snitching (obviously) as well as cults. The one large open mouth may represent a cult leader speaking while the other tongue-out mouths could be followers. Maybe the tongue-out mouths represent members of a group/cult while the large open mouth is snitch talking. Or I may just be interpreting it all wrong.
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Let me know if I missed anything!

While zooming in with weapons without iron sights such as the minigun or plasma pistol, the crosshairs from both the just dynamic crosshair mod and the crosshair from project Nevada disappear.
However the vanilla crosshair remains, but flickers on zooming in when i right click. Any ideas what can be causing this? It was working fine until recently, and trying to uninstall new mods to diagnose hasn't been successful.
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#Mod_Name
"DLC: TribalPack"
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"DLC: ClassicPack"
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"Tale of Two Wastelands"
"JIP LN NVSE Plugin"
"Ban Free Version"
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"Conelrad"
"Radios of Two Wasteland"
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"Daily Vendor Restock"
"Bartertownv10"
"One HUD - oHUD"
"Loot Menu for FNV"
"Ghost People Perception Fix"
"NVTF - New Vegas Tick Fix"
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"CASM with MCM"
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"Just Vanilla Sprint"
"TTW - The Lone Courier's Dialogue"
"Extended Energy Ammo Recipes (Gun Runners Arsenal)"
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"Sneak Meltdown"
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"BLEED"
"Gun Runners' Arsenal Merged"
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"BrotherhoodHouseAlliance"
"TTW - FO3 Darts Return"
"In Shining Armor Perk Fix"
"Reload Animation Fix - Lever-Pump-Single action guns"
"FO3 Experience Gain Sound 2_0"
"FO3 Level Up Music"
"Fire Animation Variants"
"Inactive Window Scroll Fix"
"M-14"
"IMI Desert Eagle"
"AK47"
"Mosin Nagant"
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"AKS74U"
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"Colt M16A2"
"ttw-wmx"
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"ttw-wmx-update"
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I'm preparing for yet another FNV playthrough and it seems that there are a few textures either mismatched (ie vault numbers on the leather parts of the armored Vault 21 jumpsuit) or missing (clothes from Spice of Life that randomly shift textures).
I've already redownloaded the files, so it's not that. Archive invalidation is working for other mods, although I had to use an archive invalidator mod since MO2's automatic invalidation doesn't seem to work for me.
Can anyone suggest a workflow for figuring out what went wrong and fixing these kinds of texture problems?
# This file was automatically generated by Mod Organizer.
FalloutNV.esm
DeadMoney.esm
HonestHearts.esm
OldWorldBlues.esm
LonesomeRoad.esm
GunRunnersArsenal.esm
ClassicPack.esm
MercenaryPack.esm
TribalPack.esm
CaravanPack.esm
YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
MikotoBeauty.esm
FCOMaster.esm
oHUD.esm
WeaponsOfTheNewMilleniaAndMTindle.esm
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Core.esm
New Vegas Redesigned 3.esm
Functional Post Game Ending.esm
TLD_Travelers.esm
SomeguySeries.esm
Tammer's NIF-Bashed Weapons Mega-Pack.esm
Tammer's NIF-Bashed Armor and Outfits Pack.esm
Th3OverseerCore.esm
Advanced Recon Tech.esm
VanessaFollowerNV.esm
Cyberware.esm
3DNPC_FNV.esm
3DNPC_FNVGeneric.esm
3DNPC_BlueNote.esm
SaltLakeStories.esm
KhanInitiation.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV.esm
IntimacyOverhaul_v1.0.esm
JIP Selective-Fire.esm
Detect Traps.esm
GRARG.esm
ForgeBeyond.esm
NevadaSkies.esm
YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
Mannequin Rce.esp
HairPatcher.esp
Clean-Deluxe FNV.esp
Vurt's WFO.esp
gameplay.esp
SimpleStreetLights.esp
Simply Uncut - New Vegas.esp
New Vegas Landscape Overhaul.esp
Logic and Consistency Fixes.esp
Occlusion.esp
outsidebets.esp
Asterra's Many Fixes.esp
L38Improved.esp
New Vegas Strip ReDone.esp
Eliza.esp
populatedcasino-light.esp
JSawyer Ultimate.esp
Mojave Raiders.esp
Primm Reborn.esp
Asterra's Lore-Friendly Challenges.esp
Novac Reborn.esp
MECourierStations.esp
FiveAcesGunShop.esp
TheSinkRemodel.esp
NVR3_YUP Patch.esp
MikotoBeauty.esp
vault22FloralOverhaul.esp
vault22FloralOverhaul_Update_without Radroaches.esp
dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp
EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
Armor.esp
CCSP2_5d.esp
WMIMNV.esp
Goodsprings Reborn.esp
AG Supplementary Uniques-AllInOne.esp
The Mod Configuration Menu.esp
The Weapon Mod Menu.esp
Mojave Arsenal.esp
BLEEDNV.esp
Ragdolls.esp
LegionAIFix.esp
DepthsOfDepravity.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - Populated Casinos Light Patch.esp
Mojave Wildlife (FO3-Style).esp
ImmersivePickupSoundsFNV.esp
Realistic_Repair_NV.esp
Weapons.esp
Unofficial Patch Plus.esp
ArizonaArmy.esp
lexx_brahmin-betsy.esp
Headhunting.esp
CCO - Ulysses Companion.esp
NS - DLC.esp
BLMedical.esp
NewVegasBounties.esp
NewVegasBountiesII.esp
TheInheritance.esp
1nivVSLArmors.esp
Russell.esp
IMPACT.esp
NorthRoad.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - Outside Bets Patch.esp
T4-plugin.esp
TrooperOverhaul-Dragbody.esp
Equipment Restoration Project.esp
ADAM Complete.esp
ADAM - MERGE.esp
Convenient Fast Travel Markers.esp
TLD_UnderpassDisabler.esp
ThrowableFixes.esp
Beyond The Beef Tweaks.esp
BartonThornTrigger.esp
Cowboy Perk Complete - New Vegas Bounties.esp
NVBIIAmbientNoise.esp
RussellAmbientNoise.esp
Titans of The New West.esp
VGA - EVE effect forcer script.esp
VATS Alternative - Bullet Time.esp
JustModsAssorted.esp
Book of Steel.esp
ILO - YUP Patch.esp
TMCOTT - Restored.esp
Armor Replacer Child NPC Fix.esp
OldWorldBlues - Keep Big MT Active No Announcements.esp
ImmersiveRecoil.esp
MdcAntidotes.esp
FNV Armor Addon.esp
NS - Base.esp
housemod.esp
Advanced Recon Gear.esp
Advanced Recon Tech.esp
Advanced Recon Patches.esp
lexx_brahmin-variant.esp
3DNPC_Velius.esp
Simple Reputation and Disguises.esp
Intimacy Patches.esp
NVR3_OutsideBets Patch.esp
NewVegasRedesignedType4-Patch.esp
Mojave Express Expanded.esp
AG Supplementary Uniques-GRA.esp
Functional Post Game Ending - YUP Patch.esp
NukaCola-Ojo.esp
Improved Sound FX - Merged Major DLCs.esp
CasualFollowers.esp
CompanionDisguises.esp
HeightMenu.esp
JIP Companions Command & Control.esp
JIP Improved Recipe Menu.esp
JIP MiniMap.esp
MeleeCleave.esp
NeotropicsWeaponDisplay.esp
NPCsSprint.esp
OWBFullHazmat.esp
PokerChipRetexture.esp
XFO - 9da - Enemies - NPC Healing - low.esp
CCO - Ulysses Companion - All DLCs Patch.esp
Groundcover Overhaul.esp
Cyberware OWB.esp
Immersive Primary Needs.esp
DarNifiedUINV.esp
WeaponJammingNoReloadJams.esp
MojaveExtended100.esp
Conelrad 640-1240.esp
LimestoneLOD.esp
MECourierUniform.esp
DLC Weapon Integration.esp
FOVSlider.esp
hz_Automatic Weapons Fix.esp
Immersive Hit Reactions.esp
MuzzleFlash Control.esp
True Wasteland Economy.esp
FlashlightNVSE.esp
UltimateUnarmedMeleePerkTweaks.esp
More Realistic Aiming.esp
ExtendedNVRadio.esp
MNTL-EWSP-GRA.esp
RememberAmmo.esp
Bash_Stealthboy.esp
Bash_Stealth.esp
Bullet Impact Increased LOD.esp
MiscItemIconsNV.esp
DeadMoneySurvivalBalanced.esp
JSawyer Ultimate - GRA Merged.esp
MNTL-EWSP.esp
Weapon Retexture Project.esp
Improved Sound FX - Weapon Sharing Fix.esp
OldWorldBlues - Improved Transportalponder.esp
YUP - Base Game + All DLC-KhanInitiation.esp
Simple DLC Delay.esp
Tutorial Killer.esp
Centered 3rd Person Camera - Unraised.esp
Behaviours.esp
Player Headtracking.esp
CombatEnhancer.esp
Enhanced NPC Awareness.esp
Helmet Overlay.esp
XFO - 9a - Enemies - AI revamp.esp
Interior Lighting Overhaul - Ultimate Edition.esp
ILO - New Vegas Bounties.esp
ILO - New Vegas Bounties II.esp
tmzLODadditions.esp
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So after my last post I decided to completely rebuild my Fallout New Vegas mod list following an online guide. Everything works perfectly fine this time around and it runs pretty stable. I have Nevada Skies installed for some nice weather effects but I noticed that sometimes it can get a little crazy. I wanted to tweak some of the options but I don't know how to do this? I don't see a dedicated tab in the Mod Configuration Menu nor do I have an item in my inventory to change the weather settings. Can someone help me out with this small issue? I know about some mods in my game being somewhat 'wonky' (Open Strip for example) but it works fine and they are not the issue I suppose. My load order is as follows:
0 0 FalloutNV.esm
1 1 DeadMoney.esm
2 2 HonestHearts.esm
3 3 OldWorldBlues.esm
4 4 LonesomeRoad.esm
5 5 GunRunnersArsenal.esm
6 6 ClassicPack.esm
7 7 MercenaryPack.esm
8 8 TribalPack.esm
9 9 CaravanPack.esm
10 a YUP - Base Game + All DLC.esm
11 b NVInteriors_Core.esm
12 c Better New Vegas.esm
13 d Interior Lighting Overhaul - Core.esm
14 e Functional Post Game Ending.esm
15 f MoreChems.esp
16 10 Run the Lucky 38.esm
17 11 Navmesh Fixes and Improvements.esm
18 12 ELECTRO-CITY - CompletedWorkorders.esm
19 13 Lucky38Suite_Reloaded.esm
20 14 Interior Lighting Overhaul - L38PS.esm
21 15 ELECTRO-CITY - Highways and Byways.esm
22 16 BurrowingCreatures.esm
23 17 FCOMaster.esm
24 18 NVStripOpen.esm
25 19 NVR-Strip.esm
26 1a Project Nevada - Core.esm
27 1b Project Nevada - Equipment.esm
28 1c Project Nevada - Rebalance.esp
29 1d Project Nevada - Cyberware.esp
30 1e NevadaSkies.esm
31 1f Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.esm
32 20 oHUD.esm
33 21 YUP - NPC Fixes (Base Game + All DLC).esp
34 22 Unofficial Patch NVSE.esp
35 23 NVR-Version_10.esp
36 24 Vurt's WFO.esp
37 25 Uncut Wasteland.esp
38 26 The Lucky 38 Empire.esp
39 27 Asterra's Many Fixes.esp
40 28 Ammo Count Memory.esp
41 29 ILO - PipBoy Light.esp
42 2a ILO - Nevada Skies Patch.esp
43 2b ILO - YUP Patch.esp
44 2c NevadaSkies - Brighter Nights.esp
45 2d BushSounds.esp
46 2e ImmersivePickupSoundsFNV.esp
47 2f Project Reality Footsteps.esp
48 30 dD - Enhanced Blood Main NV.esp
49 31 Project Nevada - Gun Runners' Arsenal.esp
50 32 EVE FNV - ALL DLC.esp
51 33 All Weapon Sounds Overhaul .esp
52 34 Explosive Sounds Overhaul.esp
53 35 CCSP2_5d.esp
54 36 FCO - NPC Changes.esp
55 37 CNR_Beta.esp
56 38 ZK13 - Return of the Eyebots.esp
57 39 StripOpenMain.esp
58 3a FNV Realistic Wasteland Lighting - All DLC.esp
59 3b NVR-NPCs.esp
60 3c T4-plugin.esp
61 3d Roberts_NewVegas.esp
62 3e Better Burned Man.esp
63 3f Gambling.esp
64 40 Better Casinos.esp
65 41 IMPACT.esp
66 42 NoDegrade.esp
67 43 LightUpAndSmokeThoseCigarettes_edisleado.esp
68 44 Companion Sandbox Mode3.esp
69 45 LeatherBackpack - eng.esp
70 46 Leather backpack - rus.esp
71 47 1nivVSLArmors.esp
72 48 GRA - The Right to Bear Arms.esp
73 49 FactionWastelandPresence.esp
74 4a MojaveSandyDesert.esp
75 4b NewVegasExtendedMapMarkers.esp
76 4c classicambientmusic.esp
77 4d Vanilla Intro Plus.esp
78 4e Near Death.esp
79 4f Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Leveled.Lists.esp
80 50 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Cheat.Cabinet.esp
81 51 Weapons.of.the.New.Millenia.Honest.Hearts.Grunt.Patch.esp
82 52 NoMainStoryUltimatums.esp
83 53 Improved Ballistics Effects V2.esp
84 54 Cloth Impacts - Decal and Effects.esp
85 55 Project Nevada - Dead Money.esp
86 56 Project Nevada - Honest Hearts.esp
87 57 Project Nevada - Old World Blues.esp
88 58 Project Nevada - Lonesome Road.esp
89 59 Project Nevada - EVE All DLC.esp
90 5a Real Recoil.esp
91 5b realistic headshots.esp
92 5c boa ncrpahelmet.esp
93 5d Boacombat2glove.esp
94 5e LootMenu.esp
95 5f MoreBeardAndMoustacheStyles.esp
96 60 Passive Startup Messages.esp
97 61 FCO - Roberts Patch.esp
98 62 FCO - OHSB NPC Edits.esp
99 63 FCO - Race Addon.esp
100 64 CASM with MCM.esp
101 65 Interior Lighting Overhaul - Ultimate Edition.esp
102 66 ILO - GS Shack.esp
103 67 NS - DLC.esp.esp
104 68 FCO - HD Teeth.esp
105 69 SunnyCompanion.esp
106 6a The Mod Configuration Menu.esp