US Southern Command: On April 19, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED

We murdered three more people in boats today

Virginia governor, advocates remember Dr. Cerina Fairfax Dr. Cerina Fairfax is remembered as a mentor and community leader as officials call attention to the broader impact of domestic gun violence toward Black women.

It has been really disturbing to see some people pay tribute to Dr. Cerina Fairfax’s killer without even mentioning her. The victims of domestic violence matter more than their husband’s political careers.
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There is no explanation of the difference between the Supreme Court's use of the shadow docket to prevent Obama/Biden executive actions, starting with this case, and enable Trump administration ones other than blatant partisanship.

Ok, the post gets his birthday right, it's that the "on this day" is about what he wrote, not when he was born.

I thought he was a lot older than that. Google says born September 9, 1928.

The SignalFire State of Tech Talent Report - 2025 Our 2025 State of Talent Report reveals a reset in tech hiring: Entry-level roles are vanishing, Anthropic is winning the retention war, and new power centers are reshaping where talent thrives.

I think this is mostly right, except there are important areas where things did change. Hiring for good entry-level jobs for new college grads, especially in tech, crashed in 2022 and hasn't recovered. See it viscerally among my kids' peers. www.signalfire.com/blog/signalf...

We are now left hoping that enough institutional safeguards remain in the United States to prevent the deranged, demented narcissist in the White House from using weapons of mass destruction because a country he started a war of choice against hasn't capitulated in six weeks.

While the world shifts to renewables, Trump is dragging America backwards As the Strait of Hormuz crisis shows the dangers of fossil-fuel dependence, Trump has spent his second term pushing the US deeper into it

Renewables are the future but Trump is dragging US backwards. He's attacked climate research, blocked wind & solar, rolled back fossil-fuel regulation and expanded extraction - even as the Strait of Hormuz crisis shows why this makes no sense

My new post

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bizarre argument that slaves brought to the US against their will have domicile in the US, and owe allegiance to it, but immigrants who came here intentionally, and want to remain, do not have domicile here and do not owe the US any allegiance

Added some stuff to this post and cleaned it up. SIFT revision. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

"wait, THAT's caused by a VIRUS??"

is one of the major prongs of major medical advancements

and the answer is "YES"

Screenshot of a Rolling Stone headline that reads "Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House: FEMA's Gregg Phillips says he has experienced multiple "scary" episodes of sudden teleportation."

Earlier today, I was asked to comment on the current state of American disaster preparedness.

That was already a fraught question, even prior to present chaos, but then I saw today's headlines. 🫠

"Top Disaster Response Official Claims He Teleported to a Waffle House"

why aren't other countries helping us with the strait of hormuz after we started an unjust war, cut off trade, and insulted them for a year?

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.

People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

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the going rate to be considered a visionary founder when you haven’t founded anything in a decade is $2000.

Cover of The Lancet:

@thelancet.com
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Why have I been getting at least one "tax relief center" phishing call every weekday for the past several weeks? Nobody else I've talked to, with similar phone numbers, is getting this rate of them.

Seeking Pardon, Foreign Billionaire Allegedly Funneled Millions to Trump Super PAC

Trump pardoned a billionaire who had pledged to illegally route foreign money into U.S. elections as part of a scheme to bribe Puerto Rico’s governor — after the billionaire's daughter gave $3.5M to Trump's super PAC.

But the facts point to another legal violation. campaignlegal.org/update/seeki...

19-Down? Really? #nytxw

Turns out one of the benefits of mass deportation is low growth and anemic job creation.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I didn't realize the prophecy about Birnam Wood coming to Dunsinane was about the fall of the Patriots.

So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.

I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

This is insane

Notes on LLMs and Main Character Syndrome -- their tendency to ascribe actions of lower prominence characters to higher prominence characters.