<p>This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle</p><p><a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/foreignpolicy/" rel="tag">#foreignpolicy</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#uspol</a> <a href="/tags/cartoon/" rel="tag">#cartoon</a></p>
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<p>They're costing the world, not just the USA. Fossil fuel subsidies are killing us all.<br><a href="/tags/pollution/" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> <a href="/tags/corruption/" rel="tag">#Corruption</a> <a href="/tags/greed/" rel="tag">#Greed</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/climatechange/" rel="tag">#ClimateChange</a> </p><p>"The Oil and Gas Industry Is Costing American Taxpayers, Consumers, and Communities:<br>By Jessica Maher, Virginia Palacios & Tyson Slocum Oct. 9, 2025."<br><a href="https://ssir.org/articles/entry/fossil-fuel-subsidies-taxpayer-costs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ssir.org/articles/entry/fossil-fuel-subsidies-taxpayer-costs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ssir.org/articles/entry/fossil</span><span class="invisible">-fuel-subsidies-taxpayer-costs</span></a></p>
<p>Some facts on <a href="/tags/worldwaterday/" rel="tag">#worldwaterday</a></p><p> ●Women and girls in <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#Gaza</a> spend an average of 6-8 hours a day on a gruelling and humiliating journey to fetch a few litres of water. </p><p>●land The average Gazan receives 3-15 liters of water per day (mostly brackish water), while the per capita share of potable water does not exceed 2 liters, which is less than 15% of the minimum standard according to World <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> Organization standards.</p><p><a href="https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chuffed.org/project/help-mai-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-the-gaza-camp-kids</span></a> <br><a href="/tags/worldwaterday2026/" rel="tag">#worldwaterday2026</a> <a href="/tags/gazagenocide/" rel="tag">#gazagenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#palestine</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/ww3/" rel="tag">#ww3</a></p>
<p>BAM Substack-A-Palooza! 12-Hr Midterms Marathon Video Recap!</p><p>CHECK IT OUT! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/bam-substack-a-palooza-12-hour-midterms?r=j0lyx" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/bam-substack-a-palooza-12-hour-midterms?r=j0lyx"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/bam-substack-</span><span class="invisible">a-palooza-12-hour-midterms?r=j0lyx</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/middleeast/" rel="tag">#middleeast</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a></p>
<p>Well well well...<br>- - - - -</p><p>Nonilex -- <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span></p><p>In his message, written entirely in capital letters, <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> said he had instructed the <a href="/tags/defense/" rel="tag">#defense</a> dept to postpone the strikes pending the outcome of the talks. He also told <a href="/tags/foxbusinessnetwork/" rel="tag">#FoxBusinessNetwork</a> that <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> wanted badly to make a deal, which could come inside 5 days.</p><p>A source briefed on <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a>'s <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> plans said <a href="/tags/washington/" rel="tag">#Washington</a> had kept it informed of its talks with <a href="/tags/tehran/" rel="tag">#Tehran</a>, & that <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#Israel</a> was likely to follow Washington in suspending any targeting of <a href="/tags/iranian/" rel="tag">#Iranian</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> plants & <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> infrastructure.</p><p>- - - - -<br>And, at Teh Tweeters:<br>- - - - -</p><p>Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) -- adamscochran</p><p>5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:</p><p>* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.</p><p>* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.</p><p>More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.</p><p>Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!</p><p>- - - - -</p><p>And once again, with <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>, there will be no consequences whatsoever for his actions</p>
<p>"Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis. But journalists are still letting him write the headlines."</p><p>As Dan Froomkin says, this is exactly analogous to how the press behaved when Trump careened from lie to lie and bogus solution to bogus solution during the Covid crisis of his first term.</p><p>~ Dan Froomkin</p><p><a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#Iran</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/oil/" rel="tag">#oil</a> <a href="/tags/gas/" rel="tag">#gas</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a><br>/1 </p><p><a href="https://criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="criticalread.substack.com/p/before-iran-there-was-covid-trump"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">criticalread.substack.com/p/be</span><span class="invisible">fore-iran-there-was-covid-trump</span></a></p>
<p>Since this morning, the artillery shelling hasn’t stopped. Alongside it, there are ongoing explosions from explosive robots in what’s left of homes in eastern <a href="/tags/gaza/" rel="tag">#gaza</a> </p><p>This “ceasefire” is fake; the calm is nothing but an illusion.</p><p>What’s happening is nothing but a cover that allows the <a href="/tags/genocide/" rel="tag">#genocide</a> to continue.</p><p>@palestine <a href="/tags/gazaverified/" rel="tag">#gazaverified</a> <a href="/tags/stopgenocide/" rel="tag">#stopGenocide</a> <a href="/tags/palestine/" rel="tag">#palestine</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/freepalestine/" rel="tag">#freepalestine</a></p>
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<p>Iranian strikes have rendered two Amazon Web Services availability zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and the company expects them to be “unavailable for an extended period,” according to internal Amazon communication reviewed by Big Technology.</p><p><a href="https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-strikes-leave-amazon-availability"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bigtechnology.com/p/iran-s</span><span class="invisible">trikes-leave-amazon-availability</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/amazon/" rel="tag">#amazon</a> <a href="/tags/dubai/" rel="tag">#dubai</a> <a href="/tags/bahrain/" rel="tag">#bahrain</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a></p>