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...

"In a 2024 survey of Silicon Valley residents, three-quarters of respondents felt tech companies have too much power; nearly as many believe they have lost their moral compass." www.wired.com/story/silico...

Worker organizing has pushed Microsoft to end this specific partnership. However, the Israeli military plans to transfer the data to AWS. Amazon & Google must drop their $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with Israel. Join @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

When we fight, we win. Amazon has been found guilty of tricking tens of millions of us into signing up for Prime, and then made it impossible for customers to cancel. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

If you want to know what it's really like to work at Amazon, listen to Amazon @teamsters.bsky.social' new podcast, Shut It Down: open.spotify.com/episode/5gZ8...

Local communities in Indiana and across the country are fighting back against Amazon and other big tech companies' unfettered data center expansion. This is a fight about putting people over profit. Watch this @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video to learn more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjka...

This weekend, we held a rally against the dangerous alliance developing between Trump and tech billionaires. We joined organizers fighting Big Tech’s data centers, and tech workers @notechforapartheid.bsky.social holding tech corporations accountable for participating in the genocide in Palestine.

We rallied in NYC to expose how AI data centers are wrecking the climate just to make billionaires richer. Thanks to @stand.earth @mediajustice.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social @biologicaldiversity.org and @nodesertdatacenter.com for the solidarity and art building skills.

If AI is the technology of the future, why is it being powered by old-timey materials like coal? Data centers get 56% of their energy from fossil fuels. @mediajustice.bsky.social explains what that means for the South: mediajustice.org/resource/the...

Friends at @mediajustice.bsky.social , @athenaforall.bsky.social + @notechforapartheid.bsky.social are rallying this Saturday to fight back against the nationwide expansion of AI data centers + ways Big Tech tech is fueling oppression of black and brown communities. Join them: bit.ly/datacenterra...

Dunno, feels like the real problem here is corruption, not bureaucracy. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/a...

"What will we say when our children and grandchildren ask what we did while Gaza was burned to the ground? Every act of genocide is a test of the humanity that binds us." ...Yet Amazon, Google and Microsoft still supply computing power to the IDF. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

This Saturday (9/20): Join workers, organizers, @athenaforall.bsky.social and @notechforapartheid.bsky.social as they rally against Big Tech's data centers that are powering AI, raising energy bills, and polluting communities across the country. RSVP HERE: bit.ly/datacenterrally

ou have to wonder why Google, Amazon and Microsoft are so threatened when employees question the companies' ties with the Israeli military 👀 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Fortunately, more people are waking up to the fact that these data centers don't actually bring jobs and prosperity to the communities that host them.

💥BREAKING💥THOUSANDS of low-wage #MOworkers and allies are rallying *inside* the state Capitol to fight Trump’s power grab — right as lawmakers try to ram through their illegal plan to redraw our districts, break up our communities, and steal away working class power ❌

Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.

Don't forget the handouts to Big Tech, whose server farms drive up water and power bills for everyone else. And they get tons of our tax dollars for the privilege of doing it!

Amazon Web Services is already the largest cloud computing provider for DHS. Now it's offering the gov't $1 billion in free IT services. If this isn't complicity, we don't know what is. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

More evidence that Amazon doesn't actually lower prices -- it's facing a class-action lawsuit for blocking third-party sellers from offering lower prices on other sites. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Tucson's residents and city council overwhelmingly rejected a proposed Amazon data center last month -- but the company *really* doesn't want to take "no" for an answer. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amaz...

A new report from @amnesty makes a clear link between Big Tech's power consolidation and threats to human rights. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Thousands of DC residents chanting “fuck Jeff Bezos” outside of the P Street Whole Foods

Execs at Google, Microsoft and Amazon are content to let the Israeli military use their technology against starving Palestinian children. Workers are taking more drastic steps to stop their complicity. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/m...

Wait, you mean we can't actually trust Amazon to protect our water and climate?! Color us shocked. www.abc57.com/news/new-car...