Greene's post was subject to a Community Note from X users, which read: "Toilet paper would not be affected by a strike at ports that began just nine hours before this post because the vast majority of toilet paper sold in the U.S. is manufactured in the U.S."

During her lunch break on Tuesday – the day 45,000 East Coast port workers went on strike – Shayna Turbovsky went to the grocery store to stock up on meat, rice, beans, bananas and toilet paper. She also filled up her gas tank and plans to keep it topped off.

We don't import toilet paper, so panic buying it because of the port strike won't help. But there are other items that could soon vanish.

Ever since metal containers revolutionized shipping nearly 70 years ago, dockworkers have fought to defend the vital role they play in global commerce. Yet technological advances continue to threaten the role of manual labor in ports.

Thousands of unionized dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday morning, stranding cargo and sending ripples through supply chains for consumer goods and manufacturing parts. A contract between the operators of port terminals and the International Longshoremen’s Association,

President Joe Biden is counseling Israel to take a proportional response to this week’s barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles, voicing opposition to a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear sites in the hopes of preventing the conflict that has erupted in the region from widening further.

President Biden said Wednesday that he would not support an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear sites in retaliation to Iran's strike against Israel.