Mark Jordan

Budding writer, scientist, activist, shameless idiot

[Jenni @hashjenni]

This is how you protest. Not with cutest signs, not with cringey chants. Not with stupid hats. You roll up your sleeves and fuck some shit up.

I never thought in 2026, that i’d be rooting for Albania and Iran. But here we are.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Some guy broke into my house and set up residence in the study room. He says his grandparents used to live in this house and now he won't leave.

My family and I tried to kick him out but he got very violent. He brings in his friends and they help beat us up if we ever try to make him leave.

They keep saying I hate the guy because of his religion. I don't even care about his religion, I just don't like sharing my house with some random outsider who broke in here out of nowhere and took my stuff.

"The poor guy just wants one room to call his own," his friends say in his defense. "You and your family have all the surrounding rooms in the house, and yet you have a problem with the guy having sovereignty over ONE room? That's kind of bigoted and evil."

He keeps throwing stuff at me and my family if we get too close to his door, saying we make him feel afraid. His friends say it's understandable because his room is surrounded by enemies who hate him just for existing, but we don't hate him for existing, we hate him because he forcibly inserted himself into our home and keeps throwing stuff at us.

And what's weird is whenever I explain my situation to normal people they completely understand where I'm coming from and agree the guy is being a dick, but if I talk to the police or the local paper they always side with the guy. Almost everyone in town hates this guy now because of how he's been acting, but everyone in power does everything they can to protect him. It's like there's a total disconnect between the authorities and the will of the public on this particular issue.

It's having a nastier and nastier effect on the community at large all across town. The police have been showing up to arrest anyone who says they think the guy's being an asshole. The paper keeps printing these obnoxious lies telling everyone that me and my family are the real criminals and the guy is actually sweet and awesome. It's really unfair.

Things have been so tense and hostile ever since this guy showed up. I honestly think it would be better if he'd never moved in here at all, but whenever I say that his friends claim I'm saying the guy should be exterminated and try to get me in trouble.

It's a real mess, man.

That guy sucks.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Most Americans are not evil.

That would be too simple.

And too flattering.

Evil at least implies intention.

A great many people inside the empire are not intentional enough to be evil.

They are domesticated.

Domesticated by convenience.

By spectacle.

By the narcotic rhythm of paycheck, purchase, panic, distraction.

They live inside a system that trains them to mistake access for virtue.

If I can still buy coffee, things must be normal.

If Netflix still works, collapse must be exaggerated.

If my neighborhood is quiet, the screams must be far away enough not to matter.

That is how imperial consciousness works.

Not as constant bloodlust.

As managed distance.

Distance from consequence.

Distance from production.

Distance from history.

Distance from the people paying for your calm.

And because the distance is moral as well as geographic, the average citizen can participate in atrocity without ever feeling like a participant.

That is the masterpiece.

Not just killing people.

But teaching millions to live comfortably inside the kill chain without ever seeing themselves in it.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

The second metamorphosis. Caitlin nails 'the lion'

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Rumbling

"Now’s not the time for politeness, my love.
We’re staring down mass extinction.
We don’t have time to be cool.
Care! It’s fine!"

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

@nxt888 Great final sentence!

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

“Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald Trump is a sex offender.” 🇦🇺

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not comply with President Trump’s peace deal with Iran and will strike Iran and Lebanon whenever he deems necessary.

Netanyahu says he does not see eye to eye with Trump on the issue and that he is responsible for Israel’s security.

Nethanyahu needs to be removed.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

Sounds like somebody won the war

[Arya Yadeghaar (Backup) @AryJeayBackup]

Mehr News has released a short version of the 14-clauses of the MoU that will be signed on Friday, between Iran & US.

1. The permanent and immediate halt of war on all fronts, including Lebanon.

2. A U.S. commitment not to interfere in Iran’s internal affairs and to respect the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

3. The complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days.

4. A U.S. commitment to withdraw its forces from the areas surrounding Iran.

5. The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian “arrangements”.

6. The suspension of oil sanctions, petrochemical products and derivatives, and Iran’s full access to the financial proceeds from them.

7. The requirement for the US & its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran worth at least $300 billion.

8. Sixty days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary and secondary U.S. sanctions, as well as UN Security Council resolutions and resolutions of the IAEA Board of Governors.

9. Iran’s reiteration of its commitment under the NPT not to produce nuclear weapons.

10. During the negotiation period, the U.S. has committed not to add to its forces in the region and not to impose any new sanctions.

11. The release of $24 billion of Iran’s frozen funds during the 60-day period of final negotiations. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the negotiations begin.

12. The formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement.

13. The final agreement will be approved through a UN Security Council resolution.

14. Final negotiations will not begin before half of Iran’s frozen funds are released, Iran’s oil sanctions are suspended, and the naval blockade is lifted. The final agreement will be limited only to the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, sanctions relief, and the program for rebuilding Iran’s economy. Discussions about Iran’s missile program and support for Resistance groups have been definitively removed from the agenda.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Prof Jeffrey Sachs, American economist and public policy analyst. Columbia University:

"AUKUS is designed to bill the Australian taxpayers and enrich the US military industrial complex. You have been had Australia, sorry to tell you. And your politicians should own up it."

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

$1,000,000,000,000 dollars ($1 trillion)

Imagine worshipping an economic system that funneled this much wealth to just one person off the backs of the people’s labor.

Capitalism is the biggest scam in history.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

See it every day

[isabelle @roux_isabelle]

"Rien n'est plus méprisable que le respect fondé sur la crainte."

Albert Camus.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

@CptAncapistan Yeah but the chances of you becoming a billionaire are literally zero. Stop defending oligarchs

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

The system is working exactly as it was designed.

▪️Adani’s $400 million royalty liability forgiven after a $600,000 donation.
▪️The gas industry paying less tax than beer drinkers.
▪️900 days of gambling reform delay with secret industry meetings running in parallel.
▪️The think tank that produced the Shadow Treasurer funded by the companies he now shadows.
▪️The party that wrote Australia’s donation disclosure laws writing itself out of them.
▪️A housing policy blaming immigrants for a crisis created by a 1999 tax discount.
▪️A leader who stepped off a billionaire’s jet to demand gas returns – then voted against the only mechanism that would deliver them.
▪️A political class that spent $22 billion on buybacks, while telling you to work harder.

👉 You want straight talking? Here it is. No jet required.: https://t.co/rOfK1aT89Y

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

@BriannaWu It's a good day to be an Australian

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Never believe anyone who tells you a better world is not possible.

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

@PeterCronau Yeah just watch

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

@LauraLoomer

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.

This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).

This means that the battle lines have been moved.

Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.

But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.

This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.

Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr

[Mark Jordan @AllThingsTruman]

@RonniSalt @CreakingG They already control the world and have done for decades, ask JFK. *See central banking

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

ZIOS: it's antisemitic to say Jews control the media

ALSO ZIOS: controlling all the media is a lot of work. "Instead of trying to control the whole world," [yes, that's a direct quote], all we have to do is control AI, because people trust AI and that's where everyone is getting their information.