FBI warns hackers are targeting US grocery and food supplies

FBI and CISA warn hackers are targeting grocery store refrigeration networks

Justine Anifowose
Sat, November 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM PDT
2 min read

When you think about cyberattacks, your mind probably jumps straight to stolen passwords, drained corporate bank accounts or maybe even locked computer screens. One thing that rarely, if ever, comes to mind is the idea that hackers would target refrigerators in grocery stores.

Enigmas of The Cosmos, Part One

A Mysterious Asteroid Accelerating in Space, a Red Planet Not So Lifeless After All, and NASA Searching for the Next Generation of Moon Explorers

Three extraordinary developments remind us that the Solar System still holds mysteries, that scientific discovery can overturn long-held assumptions, and that humanity is preparing for its next giant leap.

When Politics and Private Money Collide: Paraguay's Banking Crisis Brings Down a President

By Mars Strangelove Jr. on Duty

November 7, 2026

Former President Santiago Peña is ordered into pretrial detention over allegations that he used government influence to protect a lender in which he held financial interests. The collapse of digital lender ueno exposes a troubling relationship between political authority, private banking, public deposits and regulatory institutions.

Paraguay's banking crisis has taken an extraordinary turn. Former President Santiago Peña, removed from office on Friday, has been ordered into pretrial detention at a military facility, as prosecutors investigate allegations that he used the authority of his office to protect the interests of a financial institution with which he had personal business connections. The collapse of digital lender ueno has become much more than a banking scandal. It has opened an investigation into the relationship between political power and private capital, and the extent to which public institutions may have been drawn into protecting private financial interests.

Massacre in Krakow: Six Dead as a Far-Right Gunman Turns Historic Polish Square Into a Shooting Range

By Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 7, 2026

Sources: Associated Press · Deutsche Welle · Notes from Poland · The Guardian

The shooting began in broad daylight, as a gunman drove through the heart of one of Europe's most celebrated historic cities, firing at random. Six people were killed, 16 wounded, and three more bodies would later be discovered at the suspect's home. Poland is now confronting an attack whose full dimensions remain shrouded in unanswered questions.

There are places in Europe where history seems almost tangible, where centuries of human activity have settled into the stones of streets and squares, and where the ordinary rhythm of daily life appears protected by the reassuring permanence of the past. Krakow's Main Market Square is one such place. On Saturday afternoon, November 7, that familiar sense of security was shattered by an eruption of violence that left six people dead and 16 injured.

In setback to Netanyahu, rival Eisenkot to be tasked with forming next Israeli government. But the path remains complicated

By Tal Shalev
Updated 3 hr ago

World Middle East 4 min read

In a setback to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his main rival will be tasked with forming the next Israeli government, placing him one step closer to ousting Israel’s longest-serving leader, even as the path remains complicated.

Gadi Eisenkot, a retired military chief who led the centrist Yashar party in the October 27 election, will have up to six weeks to try and assemble a coalition to replace Netanyahu. But his path to power is fraught with political obstacles and divisions within the opposition itself.

The 2026 Midterm Class War: How Bernie Sanders’ No Oligarchy Message Rewrote the Map

By Yiannis Damellos

November 7, 2026

Senator Bernie Sanders’ decade-long crusade against the corporate establishment reached a historic turning point following the 2026 midterm elections. 

Ten years after his 2016 insurgent presidential campaign fractured the Democratic establishment, the 85-year-old iconoclast found vindication as a sweeping midterm victory handed control of both the House and Senate back to Democrats. This legislative shift came on the back of economic populist messages heavily championed by Sanders throughout the campaign trail.

Money Can't Buy You Votes

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 7, 2026

"Organized People Can Still Defeat Organized Money" 

says Robert Reich

Elon Musk poured enormous sums into the 2026 elections, hoping to protect Republican power in Texas and beyond. But James Talarico's victory over Ken Paxton delivered a reminder that when democracy is on the line, money can't buy you votes.

THE DOJ HOUSE OF CARDS: Trump's Legal Machinery Begins to Crack as Democrats Take Congress

By Mars Strangelove Jr. and Yiannis Damellos

November 7, 2026

Three senior departures, a battered Civil Rights Division, controversial national security investigations and a politically charged prosecutorial agenda. The midterm elections have changed Washington's balance of power. Now the Justice Department faces a reckoning over how it has exercised federal authority.

The political earthquake of the November midterms is beginning to register inside the Department of Justice. Within barely 48 hours of the Republican defeat, three senior Trump-appointed officials announced their departures: Harmeet Dhillon, head of the Civil Rights Division; John Eisenberg, who led the National Security Division; and Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Their exits leave significant gaps in three areas of federal law enforcement, at a moment when Democrats are preparing to take control of both chambers of Congress.

The agentic web is here

With the rise of personal AI assistants, the internet isn't just for humans anymore. 

by Grace Huckins

November 2, 2026

In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the “Semantic Web”: an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous software agents that could address our every need, without requiring us to muck about with browsers and search engines ourselves.

From Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Stephen Miller Gets Promoted to Trump's Chief of Staff

November 7, 2026

By Yiannis Damellos

I have always thought of Stephen Miller as a modern-day Goebbels, the man orchestrating Trump regime’s ideological counterattacks, shaping the narrative and mobilizing MAGA support from the shadows.

Miller’s new promotion to Chief of Staff brings this role into an unsettling political frame. The architect of Trump’s immigration crackdown, political messaging, and expanding executive agenda is moving into the White House’s most powerful unelected position, immediately after the Republican midterm defeat. Why? Because Trump has chosen to elevate one of his most uncompromising loyalists—not to signal a change of direction, but to wage the political fight with even greater determination. Rather than reconsider his course, he is preparing to dig in. GOOD, BECAUSE WE ARE SHARPENING OUR PENCILS.

Europe's Mind-Bomb Threats: Keep Calm and Let the Experts Deal With It

By Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 7, 2026

From passenger aircraft to television networks, a wave of anonymous threats is disrupting European life. Russian fingerprints are being suggested, but the identity of the perpetrators remains unknown. Europe must investigate without allowing intimidation to dictate the public agenda.

Europe does not need another round of public alarm. It needs competent intelligence work, professional investigations and a clear understanding of what is known and what remains speculation. A series of false bomb threats has disrupted passenger flights, prompted aircraft diversions and forced evacuations at television broadcasters. The threats have now spread across several countries and institutions, but no explosives have been discovered. European authorities should treat every credible threat seriously. The public, however, should not be invited to participate in a guessing game conducted by anonymous email senders.

Israel's Arab list backs Eisenkot as Netanyahu loses ultra-Orthodox support

Israel's largest Arab party grouping said Thursday it would recommend opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, potentially bolstering his bid after Arab-majority lists won a record 19 seats in last week's election and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost the support of an allied religious party.

05/11/2026
By: FRANCE 24
Israel's largest Arab list on Thursday said it would back Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, bolstering his chances of being picked over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost the support of an allied religious party.

The Fight for America's Social Contract Is Ongoing: Sanders and the Progressives Have Multiple Ways to Finance Their Economic Blueprint

By Yiannis Damellos

November 6, 2026

There was just one dark spot in this midterm election: the almost certain defeat of a proposed billionaire wealth tax in California. The skirmish was close, but it did not change the outcome of the broader battle that was won by a landslide, nor does it invalidate the demands for universal healthcare, affordable housing, better wages and accessible education that Democratic Socialists are fighting for. Instead, because the DSA managed something previously unthinkable, it calls for a broader economic strategy, one that distributes the responsibility for financing social progress across corporate America, Wall Street, inherited fortunes and public investment.

The fight for a more equitable American economy is far from over. The rejection of a proposed 5% tax on billionaire wealth represents a setback for one particular financing mechanism, not a rejection of the social programmes that progressive Democrats have been fighting to establish. Bernie Sanders and his allies should understand the result as an invitation to reconsider their strategy, broaden their political coalition and develop alternative ways to finance their ambitions.

Trump Does Not Own the Iran War. Congress Has a Say, and Democrats Now Have the Leverage

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 6, 2026

The president may command the armed forces, but he does not own America's foreign policy, its war-making authority or the future of a conflict that Congress has never authorized. After the Democratic victory in the midterms, Trump needs to understand that the political ground beneath him has shifted.

Donald Trump should stop talking as though the future of the war with Iran is his personal decision to make. He can threaten, announce military plans, promise escalation or declare that he intends to dictate the terms of an eventual settlement. But there is a constitutional institution in Washington that he cannot simply dismiss: the United States Congress.

Clean Water Before Data Centers: American Voters Deliver a Rebuke to Big Tech and Trump's Market Men

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 6 2026

Now wait a minute. What is this latest round of stupidity blaming Democrats for Wall Street's losses in tech stocks? The real stupidity was betting against the public interest, imagining that corporate power could replace quality of life, clean water and affordable electricity — and that Americans would quietly surrender their communities to the AI gold rush.

The midterm election has exposed a growing conflict between corporate power and the public interest. Communities are demanding clean water, affordable electricity and a say in their future while Wall Street is worried about profits. Intelligent people should understand the difference.

France Is Back in the Streets: 600,000 Protesters Challenge Macron's Economic Legacy

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 5, 2026

France - Demonstrations

France is facing another autumn of social unrest, but the latest demonstrations have grown into something larger than a conventional protest over wages. 

 

On Thursday, November 5, hundreds of thousands of workers, students, pensioners and other demonstrators filled streets across the country, demanding higher pay, better public services and action against the rising cost of living. The message was directed at a government increasingly pressed to reconcile its economic ambitions with the everyday difficulties facing ordinary households.

Payback Time: Elon Musk may soon discover what happens when political power changes hands

Elon Musk spent at least $445 million trying to help Republicans retain control of Congress. 

He lost the gamble.

By Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 5, 2026

Democrats swept the midterm elections, captured both chambers and turned the world's richest man into one of Washington's most immediate oversight targets. The billionaire who helped Donald Trump reshape the federal government may soon discover what happens when political power changes hands.

Nithya Raman ousts incumbent Karen Bass in Los Angeles mayor's race, CBS News projects

By Chelsea Hylton, Matthew Rodriguez

Updated on: November 5, 2026 / 6:55 PM PST / CBS LA

Councilmember Nithya Raman will be Los Angeles' next mayor after defeating incumbent Karen Bass in the November general election, CBS News projects.

Raman's win comes after resounding victories for Democrats across the country on Election Day.