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... Few Americans, including just 21% of Republicans, think President Donald Trump's administration has helped deliver justice in cases connected to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

The results of the six-day poll, which closed on Monday, come as congressional investigators continue to probe the alleged crimes of Epstein, who served time in prison after pleading guilty in 2008 on prostitution charges including soliciting an underage girl. Epstein died by suicide in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Just 10% of respondents in the Reuters/Ipsos poll said the Trump administration had helped efforts to hold people connected to Epstein accountable. Only one in five respondents said the alleged clients of Epstein have been held accountable.

Some of Epstein's victims have claimed that rich and powerful people have been protected in official investigations.

The Trump administration fanned speculation with the release in January of millions of Justice Department investigation files that named or featured photographs of dozens of powerful people in business and government, including Trump himself. ...

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... According to the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances, the amount held in bank accounts across all American households in 2022 (the most recent data available) was $8,000.1 This amount is in transaction accounts, which include checking, savings, money market, and brokerage cash accounts, as well as prepaid debit cards. (Certificates of deposit and retirement accounts are not part of this grouping.)

But that $8,000 figure only tells part of the story. Median balances vary widely by age, household type, and education. ...

@#16 ... That is incorrect. ...

How so?

... A federal lawsuit seeks to shut down the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight night on the White House's South Lawn on President Trump's birthday. ..

From what I've heard, the lawsuit looks on the weak side, more due to technical legal reasons.

@#1 ... I'll believe it when I see actual data beyond safety and immunological analysis beyond antibody responses (historically an easy measure but poor proxy for overall efficacy). Universal vaccines for influenza have been a highly sought after outcome for decades with none of them actually working or, in some cases, new science showing the rationalizations behind some candidates no longer holding up as sound reasoning.

But if it does work out, then this would be a major breakthrough that could/maybe be applied to other virus families. ...

100% agreement.

imo, at this point in time, too soon to tell.

But if it does work out, then ... awesome!

@#5 ... Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons. ...

So, why did Pres Trump tear up that agreement?

The telling part for me was the way, after the fact, the Trump spokesperson said he left the discussion because the noise of the rain on the roof of the barn irked him.

@#53 ... I think that the real reason MAGA worries about Platner's tattoos is that they're afraid some of you hillbillies will find them attractive and decide to vote for him. ...

Looks like Mr Platner has won the primary.

Maybe there's a modicum of truth in your comment?

@#7

Looks that way ...

@#9 ... "But you cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, or they will blow you up. There will be no Kristen. There will be no NBC. There will be no 'Meet the Press.'" ...

So, then, why did Pres Trump tear up the prior agreement with Iran?

The agreement that stated on page 3, among many other things ...

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Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.
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Why did Pres Trump tear up that agreement?

@#5

That appears to be what is occurring.

If you bring your dog to a dog park to romp with other dogs, what might you now need to be concerned about?

That leads me to wonder, who might Meta have been aiming to sell this gathered facial recognition data to?

And for what purpose?

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... The publication had first uncovered the suspicious code, internally dubbed Name Tag within Meta, while reviewing code for a Meta AI app which handles some core features of the glasses. In other words, the same app necessary for pairing Meta smart glasses to a user's phone over Bluetooth was also ready to start harvesting every face a user passed by while wearing them.

Wired uncovered the dormant tool on June 4. It contained algorithms which would have converted photos of faces into biometric identifiers stored on-device and cross referenced with each new facial scan. On June 5, an update was released which removed it entirely.

In February, The New York Times had reported that Meta was working to bring facial recognition to its glasses. Given that the Times heard the internal moniker Name Tag bandied about at that time, the code discovered by Wired was likely the fruit of those efforts....

@#6 ... In the meantime, release the Epstein Files ... ...

Bingo!

The contents of those files seems to be so damaging to Pres Trump that he went to war with Iran to distract attention away from them.

@#2

That may not be too far off the mark.

Pres Trump's advisors seem to be pushing him to enable a plan to take over and/or negate the 2026 election.

@#7 ... one sad parallel between the middle east "crises" of these past many years and the now long ago Vietnam / southeast Asia ...

The Vietnam war was a transient thing in history.

The Middle East conflicts have been an enduring thing in history.

The screwworm looks to be spreading.

So, what is the Trump admin doing about that spread, aside from the DOGE cuts?

@#12 ... Why would they do that?

Why bother nabbing the pilots? ...

Yeah, that was my thought also.

Aside from the bargaining benefit of hostages.

Maybe Iran thinks that was not a bargaining chip worth taking?

@#147 ... That's why it's the 4th largest economy in the world ...

That leads me to wonder, who might Meta have been aiming to sell this gathered facial recognition data to?

And for what purpose?

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... The publication had first uncovered the suspicious code, internally dubbed Name Tag within Meta, while reviewing code for a Meta AI app which handles some core features of the glasses. In other words, the same app necessary for pairing Meta smart glasses to a user's phone over Bluetooth was also ready to start harvesting every face a user passed by while wearing them.

Wired uncovered the dormant tool on June 4. It contained algorithms which would have converted photos of faces into biometric identifiers stored on-device and cross referenced with each new facial scan. On June 5, an update was released which removed it entirely.

In February, The New York Times had reported that Meta was working to bring facial recognition to its glasses. Given that the Times heard the internal moniker Name Tag bandied about at that time, the code discovered by Wired was likely the fruit of those efforts....

Curious ...

@#10 ... It means the Iranians could shoot at a rescue helo, but can't send out their own boats to nab the pilots, nor detect and engage the rescue boat. ...

is that universally, or just this instance?