Billionaires are getting richer from massive data centers while they raise our costs, take away our jobs, and make us sick by dirtying our air and water. We deserve leaders who will fight back and keep our people safe. Is that you? wfpus.org/DataCenters

We couldn't agree more! It's past time for Big Tech to pay their own utility bills.

Louisiana regulators are pushing for a plan that would force residents to subsidize up to 50% of the electricity needs for data centers, with no public input on which projects are approved. blog.ucs.org/paul-arbaje/...

"Regions with significant data center activity have already endured price increases by as much as 267% over the past five years, the three lawmakers wrote." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Big Tech is really doing its best to convince people that giving their land, water, and power to billionaires is somehow patriotic.

From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse. nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/d...

When cities and schools buy supplies from Amazon, they think they're getting good deals. @ilsr.bsky.social has a new report showing how many of them are getting ripped off instead.

BREAKING: Trump's executive order challenges states’ authority to regulate AI and mitigate its massive harms. Not only is it senseless for Trump to try blocking states’ ability to regulate Big Tech, he actually lacks the authority. States should ignore this ridiculous EO.

In 2023, Amazon settled a lawsuit over failing to protect Ring users' privacy. Now it wants people to trust the apps facial recognition features 😬 techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/a...

Amazon wants to pull funding from a European clean energy group over potential changes to the way it calculates emissions -- changes that would make it harder for Amazon to claim its data centers are powered sustainably (they're not). www.ft.com/content/4bbd...

In 2023, Amazon charged some schools $13 for a case of markers, while other schools paid $74 for the exact same product -- a difference of 469%. It's time for local gov'ts to break up with Amazon. RSVP for the Jan 8th webinar with @ilsr.bsky.social to learn how: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Too many state and local governments blindly trust Amazon to offer low prices on things like school supplies. In reality, the site's dynamic pricing means schools can pay wildly different prices for items purchased on the same day. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.

ICE couldn't do its job without Amazon Web Services. That's why organizers in Oakland, DC, NYC, and San Bernardino are rallying to expose the company's role in storing the data that ICE uses to track & target people.

"We see you Amazon, and we see you helping I.C.E. surveil, track and terrorize our neighbors." 🐎🐎🐎 Workers with Warehouse Worker Resource Center marching in Bloomington CA yesterday!

This Cyber Monday, remember that Amazon is raking in billions of dollars while offering $1 billion worth of free services to ICE & the fascist U.S. government. It's time for local governments to cut ties with Amazon: the largest cloud-computing provider for DHS and ICE. #NoTechforICE #MakeAmazonPay

This holiday weekend, organizers in Chicago protested to expose Amazon's ties to ICE. AWS is the computing backbone of ICE’s surveillance operation – it stores vast amounts of data that ICE uses to track and target people. @caarprnow.bsky.social @chitorture.bsky.social

One more reason to shop indie -- your local stores aren't collaborating with ICE.

In the words of an AWS software engineer, "When the AI bubble pops, Amazon will have taken a huge amount of land, water, and wealth, and the public needs to know."

As Amazon starts its busiest sales season, organizers with @freedcproject.bsky.social are kicking off protests around the country aimed at exposing the company’s ties to ICE. AWS stores and processes vast quantities of data that ICE uses to track and target people.

If Amazon is offering $50 billion worth of computing services to the government, they're almost certainly not doing it out of the good of their hearts. We wonder what they expect to get out of this. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

"...the Bezos takeover underscores a darker shift in culture, where creative platforms, institutions and even media are increasingly controlled by a few power players." www.the-independent.com/life-style/b...

Hmm, "streamlining" seems like a fancy way of saying "enriching a handful of executives" here... 🤔 nypost.com/2025/11/11/b...

Profits are up, taxes are down, yet thousands of workers are getting laid off anyway. Almost like the economy doesn't actually work for everyone... 👀https://www.geekwire.com/2025/big-beautiful-tax-benefit-amazon-and-other-tech-giants-reap-the-rewards-of-new-law-for-now/

Really hard to see how any of these deals are going to benefit regular people. And given AI's energy demands, much of this $38 billion deal is likely to be powered by fossil fuels. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/o...

Now Amazon wants to take its monopoly to the streaming industry. If the company buys Warner Bros (owner of HBO Max), it'll own 35% of the market -- 50% more than its closest competitor 😬

Oligarchs might be excited about AI's ability to make them richer. The rest of America is a lot more concerned than excited about its impact. www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

Amazon Flex drivers report being pressured to deliver during natural disasters, and getting penalized for braking suddenly to avoid accidents: futurism.com/future-socie...

So far, Amazon has donated over $1.8M to Trump -- more than Chevron, Meta, Lockheed Martin, and even the Heritage Foundation itself. perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo...

“This is really just a nonpartisan issue...Everybody wants access to drinking water, everybody wants affordable utility bills. Everybody wants to feel like their voice matters in their community.” www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Really good take on how last week's AWS outage proves how incredibly risky it is to have so much of the internet rely on a handful of tech monopolies.

"Q: What do data centers need to run? A: Water, electricity, air conditioning, and other resources typically wasted on schools and hospitals." 🙃🙃 theonion.com/what-to-know...

Amazon is on the list of donors who gave money to tear down part of the White House. It's.... almost like that's a metaphor for something.... 🤔 www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

We couldn't agree more! Too many of these projects use NDAs to hide their water and energy use from the public until after they're approved. And they barely even create any jobs!

So glad to see this! 🙌 It's appalling what a trillion-dollar company will do to avoid treating its workers like human beings.

It's the perfect time of year to curl up with a book and raise a middle finger to billionaires! We're sending stacks of free stickers out to indie bookstores around the country this week. If you're in the industry, DM us if you'd like some.

Instead of treating its workers fairly, Amazon would rather replace them with robots. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

Amazon has a pattern of trying to classify workers as "independent contractors" so they can weasel out of giving them decent pay and benefits. Glad to see more AGs calling them out for this!

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Once again, Amazon wants to bring mass surveillance to your doorstep. Reminder that in 2023 they settled a lawsuit claiming that employees illegally spied on Ring customers. What could go wrong? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

@bedoyausa.bsky.social Amazon is cutting thousands of jobs while investing $100 billion in AI and data centers. White collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter -- to Amazon, all workers are equally disposable fortune.com/2025/10/14/a...

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

If there's one thing we'll never stop talking about, it's how many of the world's supervillains are propped up by Amazon Web Services.

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

"They shut down our government your income your safety your family’s health security. Take America Back together, stop buying from the big corporations support local business. Do the right thing. Show who you are.” people.com/neil-young-s...

Now anyone who walks past a Ring camera can have their face scanned by facial recognition software -- whether they consent to it or not: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"But there is nothing inevitable about the impact of technology on our society. The impact of AI and automation on workers will be determined by a set of choices." 👏👏👏 www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-mu...

ICE, cops, the IDF -- all of the worst people you know are using Amazon Web Services to store their surveillance data. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Electricity now costs 267% more (!!) for 1 month vs. what it cost 5 years ago near data center hotspots. Awesome reporting from Josh Saul @dinabass.bsky.social Leonardo Nicoletti @naurtorious.bsky.social Demetrios Pogkas (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

These guys really think we'll forgive them for torching the planet and enabling fascism as long as they offer a few blue-collar jobs in exchange 🙄 fortune.com/2025/09/30/n...