This from the NYT:

• In a Friday night massacre, Trump fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the second African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the chief of naval operations, and Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of of staff the Air Force, along with the top lawyers — the judge advocates general — for the Air Force, Army and Navy. Another female officer — Adm. Linda Fagan, commandant of the Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security — was fired by the administration last month.
• Hegseth justified this purge based on the supposed need to restore the U.S. military’s “warfighter ethos” and to stop focusing on DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. But the actual message the moves might send is far more chilling: namely, that the armed forces should be run by White men, and (as made clear in the selection of Brown’s replacement as Joint Chiefs chairman) that those men will be chosen more for perceived political loyalty than for professional qualifications.

Accelerated transgressions in the second Trump presidency

• In this context, we fielded parallel surveys of 520 political scientists (whom we refer to as “experts” below), 40 experts on online misinformation (whom we refer to “misinformation experts” below), and a representative sample of 2,750 Americans (whom we refer to as “the public” below). These surveys, which we refer to as the February 2025 survey, were fielded from January 31 — February 10, 2025.

Tasks

• Reschedule dentist
• Send pix to KP
• Lunch with Greg – ride there!
• Ikea hinge

GPT agents

• Work on slides

SBIRs

• Generate data for Aaron?
• Clean up code and test