Jack Murphy
@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
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
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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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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-JSOC/CIA Omega Teams
-The Maduro raid
-CIA sabotage ops in Russia
-Havana Syndrome
thehighside.substack.com
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
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.
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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?"
NEW: The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations.
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
“We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
www.propublica.org
January 26, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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?"
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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
Gosh, next thing you know, they'll say the same thing about Elon Musk and Twitter
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.
Of course, in doing so, they're demonstrating why the paper must be carved up and killed.
January 26, 2026 at 10:40 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.
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
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.
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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
This is what happens when you soak your brain in Black Rifle Coffee and never get a personality beyond 'GWOT pilled'
Today I represented myself in court, a bucket list item to be certain.
January 26, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Today I represented myself in court, a bucket list item to be certain.
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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
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...
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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
Bros acting like Minnesota wine moms are reading “Street without joy” and “learning to eat soup with a knife” in their book clubs lmfao
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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
this as well
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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...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
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...
coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
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
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.
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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
What if running a thing with a person who has no idea what they are doing is bad?
What in the fuck is this guy talking about? These people live in an ahistorical void.
Not only has Pastor Dale apparently never read the Bible, but seems he has not cracked open a history book either.
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
What in the fuck is this guy talking about? These people live in an ahistorical void.
I was the military advisor on this film. Can't wait to see it. The director took this project very seriously and put a lot of time into it.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘Soul Patrol’ Review: A Distinctive and Moving Addition to the History of the Vietnam War
Filmmaker J.M. Harper takes a hybrid approach, combining new interviews, archival footage and stylized dramatizations, to tell the story of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black special operations team in V...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I was the military advisor on this film. Can't wait to see it. The director took this project very seriously and put a lot of time into it.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
whew I bought silver when it was like $15 back in the day. Wish I had held on to it!
I really can’t exaggerate how completely weird this move in silver is. Markets just don’t go parabolic for months at a time. Speaks to the fundamental cause of this move in silver: momentum and nobody with a balance sheet to take the other side of the move.
January 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM
whew I bought silver when it was like $15 back in the day. Wish I had held on to it!
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This man voted to give the President the keys to the larder and is aghast that he's in there eating all the food
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 PM
This man voted to give the President the keys to the larder and is aghast that he's in there eating all the food
We were experiencing cultural stagnation (lack of any new thought) before AI came around. Corporations were already flattening and dulling culture for nice docile consumers.
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening
AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.
theconversation.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:20 PM
We were experiencing cultural stagnation (lack of any new thought) before AI came around. Corporations were already flattening and dulling culture for nice docile consumers.
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
Arnold was no hero. He swept in and claimed credit for what the troops did on their own.
Painting of Benedict Arnold as Battle of Saratoga Hero to be Restored for Display in NY > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News | U.S. Department of War share.google/GdK2lM8E76dg...
Painting of Benedict Arnold as Battle of Saratoga Hero to be Restored for Display in NY > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News | U.S. Department of War share.google/GdK2lM8E76dg...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Arnold was no hero. He swept in and claimed credit for what the troops did on their own.
Painting of Benedict Arnold as Battle of Saratoga Hero to be Restored for Display in NY > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News | U.S. Department of War share.google/GdK2lM8E76dg...
Painting of Benedict Arnold as Battle of Saratoga Hero to be Restored for Display in NY > U.S. Department of War > Defense Department News | U.S. Department of War share.google/GdK2lM8E76dg...
This is going to be a wild book.
January 26, 2026 at 2:08 AM
This is going to be a wild book.
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Which way, Republican man?
January 26, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Which way, Republican man?
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The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, only post since his employee, Alex Pretti, was murdered.
January 25, 2026 at 11:38 PM
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, only post since his employee, Alex Pretti, was murdered.
A lot of people are saying...
This woman is the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social of DC political reporters
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 PM
A lot of people are saying...
Imagine if the Army had a systems crash that "accidently" deleted the Abu Ghraib photos?
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Imagine if the Army had a systems crash that "accidently" deleted the Abu Ghraib photos?