Trump’s Iran War Is Driving Up Energy Prices. Here’s Who Profits.
Trump’s Iran War Is Driving Up Energy Prices. Here’s Who Profits.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The war with Iran has brought shipping traffic to a virtual standstill in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow Persian Gulf channel through which roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil and gas flows. That has sent fossil fuel prices surging—and with them, […]https://murica.website/2026/03/trumps-iran-war-is-driving-up-energy-prices-heres-who-profits/
An arms race for campaign cash now dominates American politics, imperiling our increasingly endangered republic
Relentless digital appeals, unlimited spending, and fear-driven messaging have turned campaigning into a permanent contest of access to money rather than ideas and the means of implementing those ideas.
Relentless digital appeals, unlimited spending, and fear-driven messaging have turned campaigning into a permanent contest of access to money rather than ideas and the means of implementing those ideas.
Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.
Who Takes Palantir’s Money? A New Tracker Finds Out.
As the Trump administration continues to violently occupy Minnesota, the role of the defense tech firm Palantir—which continues to sell its data mining, automation, and surveillance technology to ICE—is coming under increasing scrutiny. A new tool, launched Thursday, follows the money making it happen. Palantir Payroll, the product of an effort by the campaign Purge […]https://murica.website/2026/01/who-takes-palantirs-money-a-new-tracker-finds-out/
Letterboxd Users Are Pre-Swarming the “Melania” Doc with Amazingly Mean Reviews
Letterboxd Users Are Pre-Swarming the “Melania” Doc with Amazingly Mean Reviews
Jeff Bezos’s $40 million bribe of the Trumps, in the form of his Amazon-MGM-produced Melania documentary, is out in about 2,000 theaters across the country this Friday (5,000 worldwide, according to MarketWatch), backed by an inescapable $35 million advertising assault on the country’s airwaves and commuter transit. The Wall Street Journal reported that Melania will […]
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