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I built an MCP server that turns Claude into your social media manager (Instagram + TikTok)

Hey everyone, Something that's been bugging me lately: we can vibe code an entire app in an afternoon, but the moment it ships, marketing and distribution become the real bottleneck. So I built something to fix that part of my own workflow and figured I'd share. It's called FluxSocial, and the interesting piece (at least for this sub) is the MCP server I added on top of it. Once you connect it to Claude, you can manage your social accounts in plain conversation: 💬 "Write me a post with morning yoga tips and schedule it for tomorrow at 10am on Instagram" That's the whole interaction. Claude chains the steps right behind the scenes. It learns from your previous posts to match your tone, generates visuals (images or AI video via Google Veo 3), and schedules everything directly to Instagram (posts, carousels, reels, stories) or TikTok. Multi-account support is baked in too, so you can keep the yoga studio and the pizzeria completely separate. A quick note on AI content: I know we're all getting tired of generic AI slop on social media, and honestly, I am too. That's why the system doesn't force you to publish purely AI-generated stuff. You can have it learn your exact tone, or simply use it to manage and schedule the authentic content you've already created. The part I'm most happy with is that workflow chaining. You aren't bouncing between three separate tools. Claude just proposes a full draft (copy + visual + schedule), you take a look, and you approve it. A few things worth mentioning: Not Claude-exclusive: The MCP URL works with any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) as a connector. REST API available: Just in case you want to bake these capabilities into your own app instead. Setup: You do need to connect your Instagram account once to grant posting and analytics permissions (just your standard OAuth flow). It's still rough around the edges, which is exactly why I'm posting here. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who actually use MCP servers day to day. Let me know what's missing, what's broken, or what would make this actually useful for your workflow. Links: 🌐 Web app:https://www.fluxsocial.app/🔌 MCP endpoint:https://www.fluxsocial.app/api/mcp Happy to answer any questions about the implementation, the MCP design choices, or anything else. submitted by /u/Dull_Alps_8522 [link] [comments]

I built an AI content engine that turns one piece of content into posts for 9 platforms — fully automated with n8n

What it does: You give it any input — a blog URL, a YouTube video, raw text, or just a topic — and it generates optimized posts for 9 platforms at once: Instagram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Twitter threads, and email newsletters. Each output is tailored to the platform (hashtags for IG, hooks for TikTok, professional tone for LinkedIn, etc.). It also auto-generates images for visual platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest,using AI. Other features: - Topic Research — scans Google, Reddit, YouTube, and news sources, then uses an LLM to identify trending subtopics before generating content - Auto-Discover — if you don't even have a topic, it searches what's trending right now (optionally filtered by niche) and picks the hottest one - Cinematic Ad — upload any photo, pick a style (cinematic, luxury, neon, retro, minimal, natural), and Gemini transforms it into a professional-looking ad - Multi-LLM support — works with Mistral, Groq, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini - History — every generation is saved, exportable as CSV The n8n automation (this is where it gets fun): I connected the whole thing to an n8n workflow so it runs on autopilot: 1. Schedule Trigger — fires daily (or whatever frequency) 2. Google Sheets — reads a row with a topic (or "auto" to let AI pick a trending topic) 3. HTTP Request — hits my /api/auto-generate endpoint, which auto-detects the input type (URL, YouTube link, topic, or "auto") and generates everything 4. Code node — parses the response and extracts each platform's content 5. Google Drive — uploads generated images 6. Update Sheets — marks the row as done with status and links The API handles niche filtering too — so if my sheet says the topic is "auto" and the niche column says "AI", it'll specifically find trending AI topics instead of random viral stuff. Error handling: HTTP Request has retry on fail (2 retries), error outputs route to a separate branch that marks the sheet row as "failed" with the error message, and a global error workflow emails me if anything breaks. Tech stack: - FastAPI backend, vanilla JS frontend - Hosted on Railway - Google Gemini for image generation and cinematic ads - HuggingFace FLUX.1 for platform images - SerpAPI + Reddit + YouTube + NewsAPI for research - SQLite for history - n8n for workflow automation It's not perfect yet — rate limits on free tiers are real — but it's been saving me hours every week. Happy to answer questions. https://preview.redd.it/f8d3ogk3nktg1.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=dcd3d5e90facd54314f40e799b32cab979dae4bf https://preview.redd.it/j8zl07llmktg1.png?width=946&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c78c12a223d6357cccaed59371e97d5fe4787f5 https://preview.redd.it/5cjas6hkmktg1.png?width=891&format=png&auto=webp&s=288c6964061f531af63fb9717652bececfb63072 https://preview.redd.it/k7e89belmktg1.png?width=1057&format=png&auto=webp&s=8b6cb15cfa267d90a697ba03aed848166976d921 https://preview.redd.it/3w3l70tlmktg1.png?width=1794&format=png&auto=webp&s=6de10434f588b1bf16ae02f542afd770eaa23c3f https://preview.redd.it/a40rh1canktg1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=1d2414c7e653a5f01f12a21a43e69bd4fb4b99ed submitted by /u/emprendedorjoven [link] [comments]

I built an AI Image Creator skill for Claude that generates images

I built a Claude Code skill that lets you generate AI images without leaving your editor. It's a uv Python script (~1,300 lines) that calls image generation APIs (Gemini, FLUX.2, Riverflow V2 Pro, SeedDream 4.5, GPT-5 Image) via OpenRouter. What it does: The skill adds image generation as a native capability inside Claude Code and Claude Desktop (Cowork). You describe what you want in natural language, and it generates the image directly into your project directory. It includes transparent background removal (via FFmpeg/ImageMagick), reference image editing, composite banner generation for consistent branding across sizes, and ~25,000 words of prompt engineering patterns organized by category (product shots, social media graphics, icons, etc.). How Claude helped me build it: I built the entire skill using Claude Code itself. Claude Code wrote the Python scripts, the SKILL.md routing logic, and the prompt engineering reference files. The skill uses a progressive disclosure pattern where only the relevant prompt reference files are loaded into context based on what you're generating, so it doesn't waste context window on simple requests. Claude Code helped me design and iterate on that architecture. Free to use: The skill code is completely free and open-source. You install it by adding the skill folder to your Claude Code project. It uses a BYOK (bring your own key) model -- you provide your own OpenRouter API key, and OpenRouter itself is free to sign up for. I wrote up the full technical walkthrough and how to setup and use it here: https://ai.georgeliu.com/p/building-an-ai-image-creator-skill Claude Cowork desktop app created image using AI Image Creator skill submitted by /u/centminmod [link] [comments]

FLUX 2 Pro (2026) Sketch to Image

I sketched a cow and tested how different models interpret it into a realistic image for downstream 3D generation, turns out some models still lag a bit in accuracy 😄 submitted by /u/Amanporwal [link] [comments]

Built a multi-agent debate app using Claude — two personas argue any topic with voice + images

Been experimenting with using Claude to power AI debates. You pick two personas and a topic, then Claude generates the arguments for each side in character. An AI judge scores and picks a winner. Added ElevenLabs for voice and Flux for images to make it feel like a real debate show. Some fun ones: Tesla vs Edison on electricity, pineapple on pizza, Batman vs Sherlock Holmes. Free to try, no sign-up: https://hottakeai.app Built as a solo side project. Would love feedback from this community since Claude is doing all the heavy lifting. submitted by /u/Dry_Database_3005 [link] [comments]

I built an MCP server that lets Claude generate images, video, and music — 70+ AI models, one connection

Hey everyone, I've been building Kubeez, an AI media platform, and we just shipped an MCP server that connects directly to Claude. What it does: You connect one MCP server and get access to 70+ AI models for image generation, video generation, music creation, and text-to-speech, all from inside Claude. No switching tabs, no copy-pasting prompts between tools. Models you get access to: Image: Flux 2, Seedream V4.5, Imagen 4, Nano Banana Pro (and more) Video: Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Kling 2.6, Seedance 1.5 Pro Music: Full track generation from text prompts Voice: TTS in 70+ languages MCP connection: Server URL: https://mcp.kubeez.com/mcp Auth: OAuth (recommended) or personal access token It supports OAuth so you just sign in and approve, no API key to paste. If your client only takes a token field, you can generate a personal access token from the settings page. How the tools work in Claude: Claude discovers the tools automatically. You can ask it things like: "Generate a product shot of a coffee mug on a marble table" "Create a 5-second video of ocean waves at sunset using Veo 3.1" "Make a lo-fi beat, 60 seconds, chill vibes" "Check my credit balance and tell me which video model gives the best quality per credit" The generation is async. Claude starts the job, polls for status, and returns the CDN URL when it's done. What this unlocks: Once you connect Kubeez to Claude, you basically turn Claude into a full media creation suite. You can build automated workflows, batch generate content, create ad creatives, produce music and voiceovers, all through conversation. It turns Claude from a text assistant into something that can actually produce visual and audio assets on demand. If you try it out, I'd really appreciate any feedback. We're early and actively building, so your input directly shapes what we work on next. You can reply here or DM me. The mcp setup is here https://kubeez.com/settings/mcp Users who sign up receive some free credits to test. Happy to answer questions about the setup or the models. submitted by /u/MeepEw [link] [comments]

Automated the boring parts of content creation

I've been making content for a while and the tooling situation is genuinely annoying. Every platform wants a subscription. Runway is $35/mo for video only. InVideo locks everything behind their editor. Buffer/Later for scheduling is another $15-20. You end up paying $80-100/mo for a pipeline that you don't even fully control. So I built something and just open sourced it. It's a set of Claude Code slash commands. You type /content:create, answer a few questions (or just give it a topic and let it run), and it takes the whole thing from brief → script → image/video generation → scheduled post. No GUI, no subscription, just your Claude Code session and a few API keys. The pipeline: Images: Gemini Flash for free illustrative images, fal.ai Flux for character-consistent stuff Video: KlingAI through fal.ai (~$0.42 per 5s clip vs $35+/mo for Runway) Voice narration: Chatterbox Turbo running locally (GPU-accelerated if you have one, falls back gracefully if not) Scheduling: self-hosted Postiz → publishes to YouTube, X, LinkedIn simultaneously The thing I'm actually proud of: an AutoResearch loop that pulls your post analytics after each publish cycle and automatically rewrites your generation prompt toward what's actually performing The zero monthly floor thing matters if you're doing this casually. Some months I post a lot, some months I don't. Paying $35/mo when you post twice that month feels bad. Setup is: copy a .claude/ folder into your project, set your env vars, run /content:status to verify everything's connected. That's it. It's rough in places — the Postiz self-hosting setup is genuinely annoying (needs Temporal + Elasticsearch, not just Redis + Postgres like the docs imply). I documented the painful parts in the README including a LinkedIn OAuth patch you have to apply manually because their default scopes require Pages API approval most people don't have. Anyway, code's there, MIT licensed, might be useful to someone. https://github.com/arnaldo-delisio/claude-content-machine submitted by /u/arnaldodelisio [link] [comments]

I made Claude Code dream about my work day and generate images from it

so claude code has this /dream command now that condenses your automatic memory files while you're idle. cool feature. but when i read about it my brain immediately went: "what if we took the dream metaphor literally?" i have ~10 projects with memory files. i looked at all of them and started thinking about what it would look like if claude could actually dream about what happened during a day — like, process the sessions into surreal imagery the way your brain does at night. so i built it. ~200 lines of bash + jq that: 1. scans your ~/.claude/projects/ for session JSONL files from a given day 2. extracts your prompts, strips system noise, groups by project 3. feeds it to a /dream-visual command that synthesizes a dream narrative + image prompt the image prompt is purely metaphorical — no computers, no screens, no code. just visual metaphors you can paste into DALL-E, Flux, Stable Diffusion, whatever. the collector script works on any claude code setup. the command itself just needs markdown as input, so it could work with other tools too (cursor, cline, whatever stores session data). https://github.com/jodli/claude-dream-visual would love to see what your days dream like :D submitted by /u/jodli [link] [comments]

I built an MCP server for image generation — use Gemini, OpenAI, or FLUX directly from Claude Code

I got tired of switching to Google AI Studio every time I needed to generate an image while working in Claude Code. So I built an MCP server that lets you generate images from Claude Code and Claude Desktop using multiple providers. #What it does: Generate images via Gemini (nano-banana-2, nano-banana-pro), OpenAI (gpt-image-1.5), or FLUX (flux-2-klein/pro/max) Claude picks the model and constructs the prompt — you just ask for what you need Images are saved directly to your project directory Google models also support image editing with input images Why it's useful: No more context switching between platforms for image generation Mix and match: chat with Claude, generate with whichever image model you prefer Claude Code already understands your project, so it builds better prompts for diagrams, icons, etc. My main use cases: Generating architecture diagrams right after designing a system in Claude Code Illustrated daily journal entries (Claude + Notion MCP + mcp-imagenate) Generating and inserting images on the fly during frontend dev Hit 1,000 npm downloads in the first 4 days. npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mcp-imagenate GitHub: https://github.com/mimo-3/mcp-imagenate It's an alpha release / personal project, but it's been working well for my daily workflow. Would love to hear feedback or ideas for other use cases. submitted by /u/ApprehensiveMud7933 [link] [comments]

Claude Code ai-image-creator SKILL - Google Nano Banana 2 / Gemini 3.1 Image Flash Access

I was using Claude Code to build a web app's web site and when it came to creating web app images, Claude Code had no ability to create images. So I created a Claude Code ai-image-creator skill which you can find in my Claude Code starter template Github repo at https://github.com/centminmod/my-claude-code-setup. Hope others find it useful 😁 ai-image-creator Purpose: Generate PNG images using AI (multiple models via OpenRouter including Gemini, FLUX.2, Riverflow, SeedDream, GPT-5 Image, proxied through Cloudflare AI Gateway BYOK) Location: .claude/skills/ai-image-creator/ Key Features: Model selection via keywords: gemini (default), riverflow, flux2, seedream, gpt5 Supports configurable aspect ratios (1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 3:2, 4:3, etc.) and image sizes (0.5K to 4K) Multiple providers: OpenRouter (recommended), Google AI Studio, Cloudflare AI Gateway BYOK Automatic fallback from gateway to direct API Post-processing support with ImageMagick, sips (macOS), or ffmpeg Pure Python script with no pip dependencies (requires uv runner) Setup: Requires API credentials and optional Cloudflare AI Gateway configuration. See setup guide for detailed instructions Usage: /ai-image-creator or invoke via Skill tool when user asks to generate images, create PNGs, or make visual assets Below is an example infographic I got Claude Code to create using ai-image-creator skill for my Timezones Scheduler web app site at https://timezones.centminmod.com/ 🤓 I asked Claude Opus 4.6 to analyse my web app's codebase and then create an infographic that accurately depicts what the web app does 😀 Timezones Scheduler Infographic created by Claude Code ai-image-creator skill submitted by /u/centminmod [link] [comments]

I built Flux — a self‑hosted finance agent you text on Telegram

I know there are tons of finance apps out there, but I wanted something for learning and seeking a natural way to just input my expenses like texting a friend. So I built Flux on top of the Claude Agent SDK. It’s a self‑hosted personal finance agent you chat with on Telegram. It handles bookkeeping with persistent storage — budgets, goals, savings, recurring payment, transactions. It remembers how you categorize things, lets you snap a receipt photo to auto‑create a transaction, even understands stuff like “spent for Uber ride” with vector search. All your data stays local, on your machine. Install with one command: npx @flux-finance/cli@latest Source code here. Take it easy folks! submitted by /u/According_Ad_9140 [link] [comments]

I curated an 'Awesome List' for Generative AI in Jewelry- papers, datasets, open-source models and tools included!

Jewelry is one of the, if not the, hardest categories for AI image generation. Reflective metals, facet edges, prong geometry, and gemstone refraction all get destroyed by standard VAE compression in latent diffusion models. No benchmark exists to measure this systematically. I put together a curated Awesome List covering the full landscape: 20+ datasets available on Huggingface including jewelry segmentation, hand pose with jewelry, Flux fine-tuning sets, and VITON-style jewelry data Foundational papers on identity preservation, VAE detail loss, and reflective surface rendering Open-source models: ControlNet configs, IP-Adapter variants, SAM adaptations for jewelry segmentation Evaluation metrics recommended for jewelry fidelity Commercial tools comparison Tutorials and communities Gaps I know exist: no jewelry-specific fidelity benchmark, limited public LoRAs, no systematic failure mode studies for DALL-E/Midjourney on jewelry. Contributions welcome via PR. submitted by /u/mhb-11 [link] [comments]

Dems Need to Wise Up: ICE Is a Threat to Our Elections

 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press conference on DHS funding at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4, 2026. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A high-profile election denier is [leading election integrity work](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing the [SAVE America Act](https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-lee-roy-introduce-the-save-america-act/) and threatening to “[nationalize](https://stateline.org/2026/02/06/trumps-calls-to-nationalize-elections-have-state-local-election-officials-bracing-for-tumult/)” elections, purportedly to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But despite an occasional [murmur](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/podcasts/the-daily/ice-democrats-senator-catherine-cortez-masto.html) from Democrats that they are concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to polling places around the country, they’re doing almost nothing to stop this nightmare scenario. In response to the horrific killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democrats have partially shut down the government, holding DHS spending in limbo as they [demand reforms to ICE](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/schumer-ice-reforms-elizabeth-warren/). But instead of looking ahead to the midterms, Democrats have drawn most of their demands from the [same well](https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/) of “community policing” policies that became popular during the Black Lives Matter era, like better use-of-force policies, eliminating racial profiling, and deploying more body cameras. The rest of the Democrats’ wish list are proposals to ban things that are already illegal (like entering homes without a warrant or creating databases of activists) or are almost comically toothless, like regulating the uniforms DHS agents wear on the street. > The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy. The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy — and Democrats are wasting time worried about their uniforms. Although Heather Honey, who pushed the theory that the 2020 race was stolen from Trump and serves in a newly created role as the administration’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, told elections officials on a private call last week that ICE would not be at polling sites, state officials reportedly [weren’t reassured](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dhs-official-state-election-chiefs-wont-be-ice-agents-polling-places-rcna260706). Advocacy organizations have warned that even if that holds true, just the possibility could have a [“chilling” effect](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) on turnout. If Democrats want to prevent ICE from being used to interfere with elections, they have to be prepared to demand more — and be willing not to fund DHS until next year if they don’t get these concessions. First and foremost, Democrats need to stop the department’s heavily politicized “[wartime](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push)” recruitment drive. Thanks to H.R. 1, otherwise known as the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act](https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-big-beautiful-bill-passes-ice-budget/), ICE has more than [doubled](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-its-workforce-2025/410461/) the number of officers and agents in its ranks since Trump took office. In spite of [merit system](https://www.mspb.gov/msp/meritsystemsprinciples.htm) principles which prohibit politicized recruitment, DHS has used its massive influx of cash to target conservative-coded media, gun shows, and NASCAR races, and has [used](https://www.cbc.ca/news/ice-recruiting-9.7058294) white nationalist, [neo-Nazi iconography](https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/) in its recruitment advertising. The Department of Justice has similarly [focused](https://www.nytimes.

ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections

 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, joined by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and fellow congressional Democrats, speaks at a press conference on DHS funding at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 4, 2026. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A high-profile election denier is [leading election integrity work](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing the [SAVE America Act](https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-lee-roy-introduce-the-save-america-act/) and threatening to “[nationalize](https://stateline.org/2026/02/06/trumps-calls-to-nationalize-elections-have-state-local-election-officials-bracing-for-tumult/)” elections, purportedly to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But despite an occasional [murmur](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/podcasts/the-daily/ice-democrats-senator-catherine-cortez-masto.html) from Democrats that they are concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to polling places around the country, they’re doing almost nothing to stop this nightmare scenario. In response to the horrific killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democrats have partially shut down the government, holding DHS spending in limbo as they [demand reforms to ICE](https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/schumer-ice-reforms-elizabeth-warren/). But instead of looking ahead to the midterms, Democrats have drawn most of their demands from the [same well](https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/02/04/leaders-jeffries-and-schumer-deliver-urgent-ice-reform-demands-to-republican-leadership/) of “community policing” policies that became popular during the Black Lives Matter era, like better use-of-force policies, eliminating racial profiling, and deploying more body cameras. The rest of the Democrats’ wish list are proposals to ban things that are already illegal (like entering homes without a warrant or creating databases of activists) or are almost comically toothless, like regulating the uniforms DHS agents wear on the street. > The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy. The department is quickly metastasizing into a grave threat to the midterms, public safety, and our democracy — and Democrats are wasting time worried about their uniforms. Although Heather Honey, who pushed the theory that the 2020 race was stolen from Trump and serves in a newly created role as the administration’s deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, told elections officials on a private call last week that ICE would not be at polling sites, state officials reportedly [weren’t reassured](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/dhs-official-state-election-chiefs-wont-be-ice-agents-polling-places-rcna260706). Advocacy organizations have warned that even if that holds true, just the possibility could have a [“chilling” effect](https://www.thebulwark.com/p/election-2026-dhs-ice-polling-places-latino-voters) on turnout. If Democrats want to prevent ICE from being used to interfere with elections, they have to be prepared to demand more — and be willing not to fund DHS until next year if they don’t get these concessions. First and foremost, Democrats need to stop the department’s heavily politicized “[wartime](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/31/ice-wartime-recruitment-push)” recruitment drive. Thanks to H.R. 1, otherwise known as the [One Big Beautiful Bill Act](https://theintercept.com/2025/07/01/trump-big-beautiful-bill-passes-ice-budget/), ICE has more than [doubled](https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/01/ice-more-doubled-its-workforce-2025/410461/) the number of officers and agents in its ranks since Trump took office. In spite of [merit system](https://www.mspb.gov/msp/meritsystemsprinciples.htm) principles which prohibit politicized recruitment, DHS has used its massive influx of cash to target conservative-coded media, gun shows, and NASCAR races, and has [used](https://www.cbc.ca/news/ice-recruiting-9.7058294) white nationalist, [neo-Nazi iconography](https://theintercept.com/2026/01/13/dhs-ice-white-nationalist-neo-nazi/) in its recruitment advertising. The Department of Justice has similarly [focused](https://www.nytimes.c

Thanks to Trump's Iran War, US LNG Giants Could See $20 Billion in Monthly Windfall Profits

 From [declaring](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-energy-emergency-threat) an energy emergency and [ditching](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-withdraws-global-treaties) global climate initiatives to abducting the Venezuelan leader to [seize control](https://www.commondreams.org/news/venezuela-oil-sale-trump-donor) of the country's nationalized oil industry, President Donald Trump has taken various actions to serve his fossil fuel [donors](https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-donations-trump) since returning to power last year. Now, his and Israel's war on Iran could soon lead to US liquefied natural gas giants pocketing tens of billions in windfall profits. "The Persian Gulf has some of the world's largest oil and gas producers," Oil Change International research co-director Lorne Stockman [explained](https://oilchange.org/blogs/trumps-war-on-iran-as-people-are-killed-big-oils-windfall-will-deepen-our-energy-affordability-crisis/) in a Tuesday blog post, "and a large proportion of that production, around 20% of global petroleum, must pass through a relatively narrow corridor controlled by Iran to reach global markets: the Strait of Hormuz," between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Stockman—whose advocacy group works to expose the costs of fossil fuels and facilitate a just transition to clean energy—noted that "crude oil, refined petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) traverse the strait in [vast quantities every day](https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-war-iran-could-disrupt-energy-exports-strait-hormuz). But not since Saturday. With missiles, fighter jets, and drones circling, shipping has ground to a halt, and Iran [reportedly](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/2/iran-says-will-attack-any-ship-trying-to-pass-through-strait-of-hormuz) threatened to close the strait by force on Monday." > As the conflict in the Persian Gulf continues, fossil fuel companies are preparing for record-breaking profits while billions of people face soaring energy bills and "energy poverty."We’re tired of a world where our energy system fuels war and destroys our climate. oilchange.org/blogs/trumps... > > [[image or embed]](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay/post/3mg7yn5ltxc2h?ref_src=embed) > — 350.org ([@350.org](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay?ref_src=embed)) [March 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dpuhovqi4tl6gdjpnqj5peay/post/3mg7yn5ltxc2h?ref_src=embed) Based on ship-tracking data from MarineTraffic, *Reuters* [estimated](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hormuz-shutdown-worsens-after-us-hits-iranian-warship-tankers-stranded-fifth-day-2026-03-04/) Wednesday that "at least 200 ships, including oil and liquefied natural gas tankers as well as cargo ships, remained at anchor in open waters off the coast of major Gulf producers including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar," and "hundreds of other vessels remained outside Hormuz unable to reach ports." Stockman warned that "depending on how long the violence and its atrocious human toll continues—Trump said it [may take weeks](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/trump-iran-war-interview.html) until his undefined objectives are achieved—this will have huge implications for energy markets. Oil and gas companies may achieve huge windfall profits in a year that previously looked far less lucrative for them, and billions of people could see their energy bills soar." Since Trump and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu launched "Operation Epic Fury" on Saturday, over 1,000 people had been killed as of Wednesday, [according to](https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-death-toll-1000-trump-kurds-iran-overthrow-lebanon-hezbollah-israel) the Iranian government, and oil prices have [surged](https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-war-gas-prices)—highlighting how, as Greenpeace International executive director Mads Christensen [put it](https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-iran-war-oil) earlier this week, "as long as our world runs on oil and gas, our peace, security and our pockets will always be at the mercy of geopolitics." Qatar exports about 20% of the global LNG supply, second only to the United States. All of that LNG goes through the Strait of Hormuz. An Iranian drone attack on Monday targeted Qatari LNG facilities, leading state-owned QatarEnergy to declare force majeure on exports. Two unnamed sources [told](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/qatarenergy-declares-force-majeure-lng-shipments-2026-03-04/) *Reuters* that QE "will fully shut down gas liquefaction on Wednesday," and "it may take at least a month to return to normal production volumes." The Qatari shutdown is expected to boost the US LNG industry, wh