Jack Murphy
@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
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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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sharonk.bsky.social
"Total interconnection and total communication by digital means does not facilitate encounters with Others. Rather, it serves to pass over those who are unfamiliar and other, and instead find those who are the same or like-minded, ensuring that our horizon of experience becomes ever narrower."
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thetnholler.bsky.social
When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
I was wondering which was which
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Ohh noes the cops will be butt hurt but totally protected by their union. Moving on...
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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mattfulton.net
If I’m in someone’s passenger seat and they randomly start talking like that, I want out.
yasharali.bsky.social
President Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One that he doesn’t think he’s going to get into heaven.

“I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven.”

(I isolated Trump’s voice)
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Our elite class folks.
sharonk.bsky.social
thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
The haul from New York City Comic Con.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
I played Mirror's Edge way back when it came out in '08 and loved it. Just finally installed the sequel on my PC tonight and I'm already loving it.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
If you were fired, why in the world would you email someone you don't work for anymore?
davelevitan.bsky.social
Okay quick thread of the sort of stuff you'll get if you pay a modest monthly or yearly amount to read Gravity Is Gone:

Today's newsletter, about the shutdown and RIFs and how employees are so in the dark that their bosses want them to email UP the chain if they get fired.
Federal Employees Have Been Asked to Tell Their Bosses if They Get Fired
Multiple people at multiple agencies said their bosses have told them to email up the chain if they hear about RIFs, because, per one source, "they probably won't be told if people are fired."
www.gravityisgone.com
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Hitler Youth kid who joined after the war and Germany had zero opportunities?
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
No, sounds interesting though.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
That we accept this behavior is an indictment of our entire country and society.
lagunabeachdems.bsky.social
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Mystery solved. This MFer took a gap year without telling anyone, did a lot of drugs and bedded women, washed out of the FFL and returned to real life when his friends wouldn't let him mooch off them anymore. All dressed up in pseudo intellectual spiritual bullshit. Dude seems like a asshole.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Every troop is hereby rationed to two sheets of shit paper, per man, per day. Thank you and god bless.
bradduplessis.bsky.social
“I know you’re hungry, Bradyn. But all daddy can afford to feed you right now is some wArRioR eThOS. Not sure if we’ll have much of a Christmas either, but I promise we will rehearse the 7 steps of engagement area development in the backyard.”
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jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Tools of the trade minus the sandbag and one kb in the trunk of my car.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
I'm in the best shape of my life right now, hope I can keep it going.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
Current training wk is a variation of:

Day 1: Indian clubs, heavy weighted club, back to indian clubs
Day 2: Kettlebell HIT
Day 3: Boxing
Day 4: 4 1/2 mile run
Day 5: Heavy sandbag (180lbs)
Day 6: Hyrox

Every week, 1 of these events drops out & rotates in the next, so it's really 5 tng days a wk.
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sharonk.bsky.social
what
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Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
I was told they were trying to cut down on mandatory training events.
votevets.org
Is this the military or is this kindergarten? What's next, demanding your mommy sign a note explaining why you didn't eat your entire MRE?
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
There is a certain type of wet t-shirt contest I would pay for but that's not it.
jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
We have a gonzo elite class in America, which explains so much of our current situation. In the past elites were insular and lived in their bubble without understanding the rest of country. Now they're just bat shit crazy.
sorayanadiamcdonald.com
People paid $200 a ticket to listen to Peter Thiel do bog issue antisemitism for four lectures about his belief in the antichrist.

Lots of fools wishing to be relieved of their money, I guess.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Screenshot text from The Guardian:
He believes the Armageddon will be ushered in by an antichrist-type figure who cultivates a fear of existential threats such as climate change, AI and nuclear war to amass inordinate power. The idea is this figure will convince people to do everything they can to avoid something like a third world war, including accepting a one-world order charged with protecting everyone from the apocalypse that implements a complete restriction of technological progress. In his mind, this is already happening. Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”

It’s because the antichrist talks about Armageddon nonstop. We’re all scared to death that we’re sleepwalking into Armageddon. And then because we know world war three will be an unjust war, that pushes us. We’re going hard towards peace at any price.

What I worry about in that sort of situation is you don’t think too hard about the details of the peace and it becomes much more likely that you get an unjust peace. This is, by the way, the slogan of the antichrist: 1 Thessalonians 5:3. It’s peace and safety, sort of the unjust peace.

Let me conclude on this choice of antichrist or Armageddon. And again, in some ways the stagnation and the existential risks are complementary, not contradictory. The existential risk pushes us towards stagnation and distracts us from it.

How does Thiel think Armageddon will happen?
Thiel rarely gives a definitive answer about who exactly the antichrist might be or how Armageddon might come about – a central point across his lectures is that nothing is written in stone or inevitable – but he does give the contours of what a global conflict that could lead to Armageddon might look like.