The Iran conflict has sent tanker rates soaring, forcing sellers to deepen discounts on heavy crude grades and giving US Gulf Coast refiners a cost advantage over Asian rivals, executives said after reporting bumper third-quarter profits.

Huh, that is an awfully convenient consequence of the war the US and Israel started... weird how things work out!

fuck the DNC

Times editors had to have known that this article would be a gift to an administration that claims Democratic wins are not legitimate, and that the very notion of Republican losses can only be explained by complicated election rigging rather than not getting enough votes (New York Times, 8/20/26, 10/17/26, 10/25/26, 10/27/26, 10/27/26).

If the Times had found potential wrongdoing by Alaska Democrats, that would have been a necessary story for readers. This, however, is a long-read about the usual shenanigans of US electoral politics. It doesn’t add to our understanding of politics, nor is it especially damning in the bigger context.

It is mildly entertaining, for sure, but the biggest impact this investigation will have is providing more justification for an authoritarian administration that already has plans in place to shut down democratic outcomes.

Fuck the perception that the New York Times is a serious institution of journalism or that it is even remotely unbiased and principled.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/73382874

My take on the mid-terms.

I just cant believe how stupid that entire population is. They let a demented orange pedophile fuck over their country for 2 terms before realizing voting actually makes a difference. Everything has gone to shit, there is war everywhere and only at this stage people are able to vote non-republican. Now my entire Lemmy feed is full of democrats celebrating wins that could have been since 2016. And now we have to seen them try for a couple of years until a republican gets chosen again and the cycle begins anew.

I just cant wrap my head around the utter stupidity of a two-party system.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53772954

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place or you can use mail-in voting.

Get organised today here: https://www.vote.org/

If you choose to vote in person, either now or on election day, be aware of your rights and course of actions: https://lemmy.world/post/53334632

I am not worth a future but this is...

The report admitted, however, that it could only document “the tip of the iceberg” and warned that complicity around the genocide would not end “without holding the private sector accountable, including its executives."

This is precisely what lies behind the US State Department’s recent declaration of sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC). This extraordinary measure was not just another Trump administration swipe against multilateralism but was a specific attempt to protect US citizens and corporations from possible future prosecution.

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Microsoft, Google and Amazon provided cloud services to the Israeli government and its main arms producers that enabled Israel to draw up the genocide’s kill lists. This included collecting 200 million hours of audio files that these companies helped Israel browse and analyse.

How many of these recordings document the last horrific screams of 20,000 children killed when daddy finally did come home? Thousands, certainly.

Google and Amazon even had a secret “winking” mechanism to tip Israel off when foreign courts asked them for information on their servers.

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All of this speaks to how the genocide was hardly the act of a Zionist cabal that penetrated Western government and corporations. Instead, it was a set of interests, relations, and inclinations that saturated the heart and nervous system of Western capitalism, particularly its big tech, financial services, and military-industrial wings.

One source told Reuters that Colby recently told an official from one of the Baltic states that Russia should not be provoked. As an example of unhelpful rhetoric, Colby reportedly cited public statements by Europeans comparing Russia to a cornered rat.

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U.S. officials may have a point if they are indeed suggesting it is unjustified to draw a parallel between President Putin and a rat. A rat is, after all, a warm-blooded and intelligent creature capable of peaceful cohabitation with human beings, so any such comparison could be seen as slander as far as rats are concerned.

Fuck Trump and Vance

https://archive.is/Q2JKk

The Trump administration’s online accounts are circulating images of a pumpkin carved with a sombrero design and a fake Halloween-themed background around a black man apparently accused of food assistance fraud, in social media posts slammed by critics as inflammatory rhetoric.

Only days before the midterm election, the posts coincide with the government’s sweeping campaign to show its aggressive immigration enforcement and highlight efforts to crack down on fraud to save taxpayers money when rising healthcare costs and other economic stressors have made affordability a top voter concern.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins posted on Saturday on social media a photo of the black man standing in front of stacks of what appear to be US currency with the headline, SNAP FRAUDSTER, an apparent reference to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programme, formerly known as food stamps.

He is holding aloft what appears to be a bill set aflame. “Some costumes come with a price tag. This one comes with a prison sentence,” it says to the backdrop of fake spirit Halloween costume packaging.

They came for your department stores, your newspapers, your hospitals. Now—hold onto your sesame seed bun—they’re coming for your burger. The drive for fatter profits means higher prices, lower quality, tougher conditions for workers, and sometimes the blowup of the business itself.

President Trump handed Nick Shirley, the conservative YouTuber behind viral fraud videos filmed in Minnesota, a $10,000 check from the Oval Office as the White House launched a program that pays people who report suspected government fraud. Mr. Trump and Vice President JD Vance announced the $25 million Whistleblower Incentive Program, known as WHIP. Anyone can submit a tip at Fraud.gov, and the Justice Department will lead the program. Tipsters whose reports help lead to a fraud conviction could receive up to $30,000, the White House said.

https://maps.greenpeace.org/maps/gpuk/us-diesel-tanker-tracker/

AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.

The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.