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Jack Murphy
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National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com

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"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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The High Side is where @seandnaylor.bsky.social and I publish investigative journalism about the special ops and intel community including some of if not the most in-depth reporting on:
-JSOC/CIA Omega Teams
-The Maduro raid
-CIA sabotage ops in Russia
-Havana Syndrome

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Boo this man
January 27, 2026 at 10:23 PM
depraved
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 3:28 PM
When it all comes out in the wash, they're all going to claim that they were just following orders.
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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January 28, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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Demonstrations have demanded an end to federal funding for ICE, after two protesters were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire
Demonstrations have demanded an end to federal funding for ICE, after two protesters were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.
www.forbes.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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getting feds to say shit like this on camera with their face exposed is NUTS -- you can not reform this agency, everyone involved must go, there is no practical way to root out all of these guys
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."

ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY
January 27, 2026 at 6:10 PM
That wasn't written by Jack Carr BTW. You could find that passage posted up in team rooms and platoon AO's many years ago.
i always understood this as being aspirational. when right wingers talk about guerrillas this way, they're fetishizing primality rather than organization
There's a whole fantasy about insurgents being tougher than us or good at their job:
January 27, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Truly some voices of the people. Where is Kid Rock and Russell Brand?
The new CBS contributors:

Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 4:47 PM
He admits in this interview that he, and others, lied in the After Action Review following the Bin Laden raid. I've been telling people that they fed lies into the AAR for over ten years people thought I was nuts. Some of those lies were to support books they had planned to write.
15 goddamn years and people are suing each other over who actually killed bin Laden
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 AM
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These aren't tech-savvy, sophisticated public servants. They're lazy, far-right Fox News viewers who don't understand public administration or how to govern, desperately tapping out "@grok what's the best way to govern?"
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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January 27, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Gosh, next thing you know, they'll say the same thing about Elon Musk and Twitter
Brian Stelter: A top Post reporter tells me "there's now a strong sense" across the newsroom "that neither Jeff Bezos nor Will Lewis are serious, good-faith stewards of The Washington Post."
January 26, 2026 at 11:32 PM
They've lost so much of the public's trust and are run by monied interests to the point that there is a need to start over again.
I'm seeing Washington Post reporters post desperately today about the great investigative reporting they do, how valuable it is, etc., thereby implying this is why the paper shouldn't be carved up and killed.

Of course, in doing so, they're demonstrating why the paper must be carved up and killed.
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 PM
It's beyond tragic that we learned the wrong lessons from history, and twenty years of war. For a lot of these guys, we lost because some liberal pussy wouldn't let them do the whole 'vill.
Coming to the delayed realization that they view a sympathetic population as acceptable targets if they can even be connected by a cobweb to something supposedly shootable
January 26, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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This is what happens when you soak your brain in Black Rifle Coffee and never get a personality beyond 'GWOT pilled'
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Today I represented myself in court, a bucket list item to be certain.
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Bros acting like Minnesota wine moms are reading “Street without joy” and “learning to eat soup with a knife” in their book clubs lmfao
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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this as well
There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.
January 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live

coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
It's the Umberto Eco thesis about fascists. They think the left is both too weak and too strong. The left are low t soy boys that wear dresses, but they're also gangster ass Marxist sleeper cells with sophisticated planning, coordination, and funding.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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What if running a thing with a person who has no idea what they are doing is bad?
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM