Archive - Jack Hopkins Now

Why A Sailor...Swears Like A Sailor

I spent years earning the stereotype before I ever bothered to look up where it came from. What I found changed how I write...and...how I hold up.

10 hrs ago • Jack Hopkins

I'll Take the Cancellations. Just Not Over This.

The tool everybody’s citing can’t tell a research assistant from a ghostwriter. Its own makers admit it.

Aug 19 • Jack Hopkins

If Ossoff wins by 7 to 10 points, the 2028 conversation is over before it starts. Here’s my case–and here’s where I could be wrong.

Aug 19 • Jack Hopkins

He Canceled Colorado's Drinking Water Over A Prison Sentence

They put it in writing. An email, five federal agencies, and a state that wouldn’t do what it was told.

Aug 18 • Jack Hopkins

A Genius He's Not: The Vaccine He Ordered Does Not Exist

2,566 measles cases. The most in 35 years. And last Monday he signed an order telling parents to wait for three shots that nobody makes.

Aug 17 • Jack Hopkins

BONUS: What We Believe Something Means Quickly Becomes Our Reality

Hope you enjoy this short video…and the concept it presents.

Aug 17 • Jack Hopkins

There Is No Finish Line

BEDROCK–Monday, August 17, 2026. We set the foundation for the week. And we confront the hardest truth in this whole series.

Aug 17 • Jack Hopkins

We’re Winning So Hard Many People Can Barely Afford To Drive To Work

Six months, one collapsed ceasefire, four-dollar gas, and an empty Pacific. But the strait is definitely about to open. Any day now.

Aug 16 • Jack Hopkins

Congratulations, You Just Bought an Ocean

Nobody told Oman

Aug 15 • Jack Hopkins

We Are Each Other’s Bedrock

BEDROCK–Friday, August 14, 2026. We close the week strong. And we arrive at the thing that holds all the rest of it up.

Aug 14 • Jack Hopkins

Substack Writers: Stop Defending Yourself

The tool everyone is using to accuse you can’t clear you. That’s not a bug you can argue your way out of–it’s the whole design.

Aug 14 • Jack Hopkins

Sailors in Crisis: 260 Days

What the Navy calls a “mental health episode,” anyone who has stood a flight deck calls a warning

Aug 13 • Jack Hopkins

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