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Day 33 of US Coup: Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon [NYT]

> President Trump fired the country’s senior military officer as part of an extraordinary Friday night purge at the Pentagon that injected politics into the selection of the nation’s top military leaders. > > In all, six Pentagon officials were fired, including Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen. James Slife, the vice chief of the Air Force; and the top lawyers for the Army, Navy and Air Force. >

Original source: NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/politics/trump-fires-cq-brown-pentagon.html). Link to archive.is due to paywall: https://archive.is/FAhos#selection-4751.0-4751.202

Remember, Hitler did it in 53 days.

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Pod of 157 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach
  • We have had beachings of one species or another and always in large numbers over the last few years. There’s not enough funding to explore why it happens.

    It could be the climate emergency, the use of sonars on ships that throw off their navigation, it could be the drifting of the magnetic poles, or simply geologic. That part has an interesting combination of bathymetry and very strong currents.

    Or a combination of a number of these factors.

  • Data is Beautiful @lemmy.world kingofras @lemmy.world
    Project 2025 • Realtime progress tracker

    *not the author

    This tool live tracks the progress of the various campaigns promises that were part of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 manifesto, which supported Trump during his last campaign.

    Tap for spoiler

    Trump denied knowing anything about the project

    https://www.project2025.observer/

    ~Personal note: one of the authors is the mod of r/keeptrack, and I hope she strongly considers coming over here~

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    Data is Beautiful @lemmy.world kingofras @lemmy.world
    NASA monthly global temperature anomalies [animated spiral] 1880-2024

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25580771

    > > The visualization presents monthly global temperature anomalies. > > https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)KI
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