Jack Murphy
@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social Military Thriller, The Most Dangerous Man: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803651/the-most-dangerous-man-by-jack-murphy/9798892424509/
This was a hugely influential series for me looking back on it. I pulled the graphic novel out of the used bin in a comic shop in maybe 98 or 99. That's why a lot of things that have happened have not really surprised me. www.typebarmagazine.com/cybernetic-i...
Cybernetic Incels: What Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG foresaw in the future of terrorism and the internet
An internet that's a fascist neurotoxin. Sound familiar?
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“Probably since the creation of the CIFs there have been the haters that have been trying to shut them down,” said former acting defense secretary and retired Special Forces officer Chris Miller. thehighside.substack.com/p/revenge-of...
Revenge on the CIF - How “The Haters” Cut Special Forces’ Last Link To JSOC
The past, and maybe future, of the Special Forces' in-extremis response team
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aww did someone get addicted to corruption and graft!!!!
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 14h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
In fairness, the Blob seems to understand themselves as a courageous elite, willing where so few others dare to make the *hard* decisions about which stoves to touch.
terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · 16h agoIt is kinda weird that the American public response to the Iraq war being kinda a disaster was "oh stove is hot! let's not do that again" but the blob's reaction was "oh stove is hot! this makes me very angry at the neighboring, larger, stove providing some of the heat, I will touch that one now"
It was clear from the get go that Trump did not and does not understand Iranian psychology.
Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 20h agoForeign leaders can be so difficult when you kill their families and launch surprise attacks on their countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
And they won't face any repercussions for it at all.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
History will regard the unprovoked attack & subsequent war on Iran as one of the most egregious examples of foreign state capture & of great power hubris in recent eras: “The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran”
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about th...
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I guess Arthur c. Clarke predicted it, but high tech is causing some people to revert to obscurism and superstition.
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterdaycontinental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)
seriously analytical philosophy brain on the simulation question is terminal, and at some point you're just inventing religion
Maia@maiamindel.bsky.social · yesterdaycontinental philosophers most vindicated people in existence for having the basic decency to abide by the "we're not discussing made up questions" rule (phenomenology)
the UAE is what many Western democracies secretly salivate over
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · yesterdayA lot of the MAGA crowd wants the US to essentially become like the UAE, where there’s an enormous foreign workforce who have substantially fewer rights than citizens and are subject to awful working conditions. It’s a fever dream, but it’s their fever dream.
JSOC's rapid deployment to Cyprus to prepare to rescue American hostages in Gaza was called Able Hammer, and is probably the longest duration crisis they've handled. In the end, only the TFO guys got to play. thehighside.substack.com/p/gaza-hosta...
Gaza Hostage Crisis Led To "Unprecedented" Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 Deployment
JSOC is preparing for a long campaign supporting the Israeli incursion into Gaza
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"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care
Like MTV when they actually played music videos. For the history channel it was shows about the old timers killing Nazis back when.
Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 3d agoRemember when the history channel was peak?
Every single time. Don't worry about us.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d agoSeems like an important detail
"A modern retelling of "The Most Dangerous Game". The author did a very good job. This story captured my attention early on and I zipped thru it very fast! www.amazon.com/Most-Dangero...
Space Marine: Codex Astartes Does Not Support This Action
ALT: Space Marine: Codex Astartes Does Not Support This Action
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ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 2d agothey want something more like roman religion, where the empire has its state gods you must respect and which their symbols of power are linked to
Tremendous news about one of the best national security writers and editors working today, Sharon Weinberger, taking the helm as the new Editor-In-Chief of the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.” thebulletin.org/2026/08/the-...
The Bulletin welcomes Sharon Weinberger as editor-in-chief
The Bulletin’s new editor-in-chief, Sharon Weinberger, has dedicated her career to covering the intersection of science, technology, and national security and will guide the Bulletin’s editorial effor...
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Dating to the earliest years of the Afghanistan war, and widely viewed as a success inside the special operations and CIA communities, the Omega teams took part in the hunt for kidnapped U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl... thehighside.substack.com/p/zeroed-out...
Zeroed Out: How JSOC’s Omega teams enabled the CIA’s Afghan militias
The joint CIA/JSOC hunter-killer teams stalked Afghanistan for nearly twenty years
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Life as a J2 when you just completely give up and start crowdsourcing response options from random E4s
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d agoA senior officer in US Central Command’s (CENTCOM) intelligence branch emailed a broad group of military analysts seeking “new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran.” A second source indicated a similar request went out the prior week.
This is why MAGA podcasters are jumping ship. They’re losing millions of viewers. For years, they built audiences by promising America First, no new wars, and economic prosperity. Then Trump gave them inflation, higher gas prices, and a war with Iran.
I assume TED is right when he says the pied-a-terre tax was poorly drafted and is badly implemented, but its hilarious for a very rich guy to predict the downfall of the mamdani administration because 10,000 rich people in a city of 8mm had a negative interaction with municipal government
TED 🇺🇸@epicureandealmaker.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s a very bad sign, @mayor.nyc.gov, that you’re ignoring this problem. A very bad sign for the future success of your administration.
I went to a Italian bakery in Baltimore once and got a chocolate eclair the size of my fucking head.
loctastic@loctastic.bsky.social · 3d agowhen you’re in Baltimore and are looking for a book to help you find Italians
Better than I thought it would be. Respect for actually having the balls to begin framing our current political era, which most of academia is too professionally and personally traumatized to even attempt.
In other journalistic news, Seth's book is a staff pick at this avant-garde bookshop in Brooklyn.
