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Jack Murphy

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National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social‬ "We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History" https://www.amazon.com/We-Defy-Chapters-Special-History-ebook/dp/B0DCGC1N1N

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 3h

And I thought KPIs were lame...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

how we feelin about transitioning to a post-literate society, chat?

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 4h

So it sounds like the next assassin's creed game will take place during world war 2, and you play a heroic Nazi fighting for the purity of the Aryan race.

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 4h

Is this some "leadership" technique they teach at HR asshole university?

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Boo-is @louisevans.bsky.social · 6h

It’s maybe not shocking that the institutions closest to fact—district judges, juries—have proven most robust against an onslaught of lies, but it’s to journalism’s eternal shame that it has behaved like the political institutions and not the honest ones.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6h

unlike the rest of these folks (and unlike appellate judges and supreme court justices), the job of a district judge is essentially to see what's in front of them

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

It's very striking how clearly they seem to see what's right in front of their faces in way that so many others -- law firm partners, university presidents, members of congress, and on and on -- refuse to.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 7h

Wow, okay. Color me confused. Any other countries out there that "stabilizing" is an America first prerogative?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 7h

This was a really fun interview with Jake Adelstein the author of Tokyo Vice and the terrific book The Last Yakuza.

youtu.be/9GRvCsAgPXs?...

How the Yakuza Works w/ Jake Adelstein

YouTube video by The Team House

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 1d

At this point, are we descending into autocracy by sheer inertia or perverse curiosity?

For those telling the story (the Media), it might be, at least subconsciously, a morbid fascination with US autocracy-a prophecy they can't resist self fulfilling by covering in a way that mostly roots it on.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 8h

An autumn man, enjoying some pumpkin spice.

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 14h

This one was pretty good though.

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A Most Wanted Man (film) - Wikipedia

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 14h

That's what happens when the director can't figure out if he wants to be Michael Mann or do James Bond, or the studio's focus group tests tell you to do both.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 14h

The whole thing just feels "hollywood" and unauthentic which would be fine for Jason Bourne. Fun fact: spy games and sniper (of the sniper franchise) were written by the same guy and take place in the same world. I think he's writing a crossover.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 14h

He's right, that one sucks too.

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 14h

Extremely over rated. The premise I like of a past relationship between spies spilling over into the present day, but beyond that it's just a terrible cliched movie.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 15h

“We don’t want anyone here but right wing ideologues” is shorter and more honest.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h

Here's the full memo.

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Kevin 🚀🤠 @astro-cowboy.bsky.social · 2d

NASA won’t admit it. but the real reason we’re going back to the moon is to raid antifa’s headquarters.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

No, but I'm interested.

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

Conan the Barbarian is fucking awesome right now. New Punisher series seems promising so far.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

Well that's if you and your husband are nuts too. The military does provide a lot of services for young families from schools to day care.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

As a comic reader and a dude who works in publishing, it is actually incredible that we have an industry that publishes on a weekly basis full color comics in a magazine format. People said comics were dead many times over.

Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social · 1d

Comics shops numebrs in 2025: ComicHub sales are up 27% in August! Incredible growth rate. Comics and GN sales have gotten closer together a trend that hasn't happened in a long time both growing.

IN 2025...new comic buyers are flocking to store collectors being replaced by readers.

#nycc #icv2

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it is, imagine being a 18-19 year old girl uprooted from her home down and then living on a military base and suddenly thrown into the shark tank with a bunch of psycho FRG wives?

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1d

It's funny to watch elite media try to control a population of a country in which people are increasingly less malleable by such media.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 1d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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