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... Public health experts, including those who were on the frontlines of Covid-19 during the first Trump administration, say neither hantavirus nor Ebola represents an immediate threat to the average American.

But the trust deficit leftover from Covid is showing up in the public response to the two viruses -- and laying bare the challenge for public health officials if either escalates, or when the next major pandemic arrives.

That mistrust could be particularly pronounced within President Donald Trump's base, including some Make America Healthy Again supporters who embraced the so-called medical freedom movement during Covid. ...

This is the way it should occur, through our Judicial system

And not through some secretive grifting 5-member board that Acting AG Blanche appoints.

@#14

Currently the polls tend to be polling RV, or registered voters.

As we move closer to Election Day, the polls slowly switch over to polling LV, or likely voters.

@#5 ... WHO authorities stressed that their role is to offer technical and operational help to national health agencies, which have primary responsibility for detecting the spread of diseases under international rules. ...

WHO helps the national agencies, but those national agencies have the responsibility for the detection of the spread of a disease.

Once that detection is ascertained, then WHO steps in to help.

Pres Trump has critically crippled that detection ability with his DOGE campaign.

And now the world is seeing the effects of Pres Trump's decisions.

The WHO has been criticized by SoS (et al) Rubio.

Primaries that allow only members of their parties to vote in them tend to attract the more radical voters of the party and tend to endorse the more radical candidate that the party has proffered.

Here in CT, it is often discussed opening primaries to everyone, with each voter allowed to vote in only one primary. In that manner, unaffiliated voters (as independent voters are called here) can also take part in the primaries.

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... The study suggests that as their prey grew bigger, tyrannosaurs and other large predatory dinosaurs evolved to use their powerful jaws as their primary weapon.

As such, their arms shrank over time with disuse, until they became the funny little chicken wings we laugh at today.

This research is far from the first to suggest that these puny limbs were vestigial, but it goes further by linking the shrinking arms with the evolution of huge, powerful heads and jaws.

Democrats need to get the voters to the polls.

A part of the problem I hear about with the recent gerrymandering is that the Democrats may just say, ~my vote no longer matters.~

And, fwiw, I still am not convinced of a Blue Wave on Election Day.

Democrats need to get the voters to the polls.

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... He added, "Based on my respect for the above mentioned Leaders, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, The Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Caine, and The United States Military, that we will NOT be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment's notice, in the event that an acceptable Deal is not reached." ...

@#3 ... Some sort of AA defense thing? ...

Not sure what you mean by "AA."

That aside, the vehicle certainly seems to be odd.

I'd like to know what are the materials used for that ~addition~ to the SUV, and how that material may affect or not affect radio frequencies.

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... XTEND CEO Aviv Shapira says the future of drones is not really about drones. It is about software.

In an interview with Military.com, Shapira described XTEND as a company operating "at the intersection between AI and robotics," building an operating system that allows humans to direct complex robotic missions remotely without manually flying drones or controlling robots.

The company's core product, XOS, is designed to let operators give mission-level commands while artificial intelligence handles much of the flying, navigation and coordination. XTEND describes XOS as a hardware-agnostic operating system that connects platforms, payloads, autonomy and human operators into one mission environment.

"For us, it's all about not flying the drone, but telling it what to do," Shapira said in the interview. "It's moving from piloting to commanding."

That distinction matters because modern drone warfare and public safety operations increasingly require operators to manage more machines in more complex environments. Shapira said most of the market still relies on manual control, while XTEND is trying to reduce the cognitive load by allowing operators to command drones through mission intent. ...

@#32

Huh?

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... An especially large motorcade ferried President Donald Trump around Beijing during his trip to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. However, a pair of heavily-laden Chinese SUVs with huge custom roofs, a configuration that does not appear to have been previously seen, were of particular interest. The motorcade also featured several other vehicles with interesting, but far less substantial additions to their roofs.

The unusual SUVs were first spotted as Trump's motorcade moved through the Chinese capital on May 13, as can be seen in the video in the social media post immediately below. They continued to be a feature of the motorcade throughout the U.S. President's state visit, which wrapped up today.

@#13

Yeah, that is likely to happen, considering the billionaires that Pres Trump has chosen to suck up to him in his Cabinet, and the explicit grift that Pres Trump seems to have been doing...

@#29, 30

imo, one aspect your comments seem to be overlooking is that ...

As understand it, so long as PM Netanyahu keeps his war going, he cannot face the charges against him in a Court of Law. I may be wrong, though.

@#10 ... If Xi personally greets Vladimir Putin at the Beijing airport instead of sending a flunky, ...

You noticed that also?

@#7 ... The fact that some physicists spent their life working on a theory that's false ...

Yeah.

And the Sun was once thought to orbit the Earth.

@#7 ... String Theory requires super symmetry. ...

OK, I'm still listening ...

@#27 ... What gives you the impression I was absolving America of its responsibility for Israel's actions? ...

Good question.

Pres Trump's support of PM Netanyahu is looking like an absolute support of PM Netanyahu policies.

Given the, what I view as, the genocide of Palestinians by Israel, I have to ask Pres Trump ... WTF?

I saw this article a couple days ago ..

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... I wanted to believe Trump was the real deal for a long time -- even though I had doubts because I knew enough about his business history to think otherwise. But now I regret my support for him, and I should've known better.

He's making it plain as day. He's a con man, a liar, doesn't keep his promises. He's in office all for himself and he doesn't even try to hide his corruption anymore."

Thomas added, "He's the worst president we've ever had and he's the most corrupt president we've ever had. I know it's hard, it took me a while to be able to say that.

Very difficult when you commit yourself to believing in somebody.

Popielarz asked Thomas whether he'd voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 -- and Thomas confirmed that he had. The host followed up by asking what was "the straw that broke the camel's back" for Thomas.

"I don't think it's one thing, it's been a cumulative process," Thomas said. "And it's gotten so blatant now ... He was gonna lower prices on day one, he was gonna do this on day one, only he could fix all this stuff.

And now I understand how somebody like Adolf Hitler was able to brainwash millions of people.

I never I thought I'd see that again in my lifetime. But it's happened, right? I thought we got past that, but we don't learn from history." ...

@#25

PM Netanyahu seems to have a ~control~ over Pres Trump.

The ramifications of that are quite significant, given the awesomeness of the US Military.

Perhaps that may be why PM Netanyahu has worked to established that apparent ~control~ over Pres Trump?

OK, this song just popped up on a playlist here.

Listening to it, I have to ask, does PM Netanyahu regard Pres Trump as little more than his pocket calculator?