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Galaxy Note 10+, Alternate Internets, and Bernie’s Climate Plan: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

This week at Gizmodo, we took a long, hard look at what could have been with our Alternate Internet series, cataloging some of the ways the web could have been different—or still could be. While we didn’t have the time to write a sweeping, The Wheels of Time-length series on what would happen if I…

Tech News Tom McKay

Bernie Sanders’ $16 Trillion Climate Plan Is Nothing Short of a Revolution

On Thursday, Bernie Sanders released his long-awaited presidential climate plan. And folks, Bernie is gonna Bernie. You can hear his voice in everything as it spits hot fire about prosecuting the fossil fuel industry, uplifting workers, and creating a whole swath of new public works programs and infrastructure. It also calls for 100 percent renewable…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Taking Aim at Amazon and Uber, Sanders Campaign Promises Sweeping Pro-Union Legislation

Bernie Sanders hasn’t won his seat in the Oval Office just yet, but, ahead of a planned speech before America’s largest union federation, the AFL-CIO, the Vermont senator’s campaign released a broad plan to bolster the country’s badly depleted union membership. Tech companies that have expressed anti-union views or that rely on gig-work labor have…

Politics Avery Ellis

Sanders, AOC, and Others Demand Workplace Safety Investigation of Amazon

Following yesterday’s Prime Day strike at a fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota, over a dozen progressive lawmakers—including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ro Khanna—co-signed a letter to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to request a “comprehensive investigation into the workplace conditions” in Amazon and its subsidiary businesses’ warehouses. Reporting…

Tech News Avery Ellis

For Prime Day, New Yorkers Order Jeff Bezos to Do Better

Around one hundred New Yorkers took a page out of Amazon’s book this afternoon and made a one-day delivery to the $80 million penthouse apartment of CEO Jeff Bezos: 275,000 signed petitions demanding broad change from a company which is becoming more closely associated with brutal working conditions, surveillance, and the Trump administration’s war on…

Tech News Avery Ellis

AOC and Bernie Sanders Are Asking Congress to Declare a Climate Emergency

Governments declaring climate emergencies are all the rage these days. On Tuesday, a resolution slated to be introduced in Congress aims to get the U.S. as a whole to join the growing number of towns, states, and countries recognizing that yes, climate change is an emergency. Representative Earl Blumenauer introduced that resolution along with fellow Representative…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Right to Repair Is Less Complicated and More Important Than You Might Think

Take a second to look around you and consider the various gadgets within eyeshot. How many of them, if they broke, could you reasonably fix right now? Could you afford (or even know how) to repair your phone or computer? Your car? How about your coffee maker? Consider what you’d do with them if pricey…

Politics Catie Keck

Hell Yeah, Bernie Sanders Just Endorsed a National Right-to-Repair Law for Farmers

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has officially thrown his weight behind a national right-to-repair law, adding momentum to the issue as he and the other 400 trillion Democratic presidential candidates ramp-up their White House ambitions. As part of his campaign to overhaul policies governing the agriculture and farming sector, Sanders outlined a sweeping set of initiatives…

Politics Catie Keck

Man Charged With Setting Up Bogus Websites to Scam Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke Donors

Federal prosecutors have charged an 80-year-old California man named John Pierre Dupont with bilking donors out of more than $250,000 by setting up fake websites and political action committees (PACs) falsely purporting to raise money for Texas politician Beto O’Rourke, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Tallahassee, Florida mayor Andrew Gillum, and other progressive causes, NBC…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York

After months of fierce opposition from local leaders, the New York Times reports that Amazon has decided to pull out of its plans to place a new satellite headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. While some polls showed New Yorkers generally in favor of the project—which was projected to bring…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Senators Sanders and Warren Demand Amazon Explain Its ‘Potentially Illegal’ Anti-Union Video

Facing ongoing employee organization within its grocery subsidiary, Amazon distributed a 45-minute union-busting training video to Whole Foods managers last month, the contents of which were first reported by Gizmodo. Now, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are demanding answers from the company about the video, which they say “directs and encourages potentially illegal interference…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 After Criticism About Workers on Food Stamps [Updated]

Amazon announced this morning that the company will raise its minimum wage to $15 for all American workers, including seasonal employees and those employed by temp agencies. The move is a direct result of public pressure from people who have criticized Amazon for low wages, grueling conditions, and the fact that many Amazon employees rely…

Commerce Matt Novak

Hateful Kitties, Space Lasers, Spider-Man, and Soundbars: Best Gizmodo Posts of the Week

We’re up for a big week in the news, folks. There’s a lot going to happen, from Apple’s big September 12th announcement event to the notably less fun Hurricane Florence, which is currently projected to barrel into the East Coast at a minimum Category 3 status or possibly even worse before the weekend. As the…

Tech News Tom McKay

Bernie Sanders Introduces ‘Stop BEZOS Act’ to End Corporate Welfare to Amazon, Walmart

Bernie Sanders introduced a bill today that culminates weeks of feuding between the Vermont senator and Amazon, a company he views as indicative of a “rigged economy” that rewards the rich and harms workers. https://gizmodo.com/why-is-amazon-scared-of-bernie-sanders-1828688943 The bill—titled the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act—would impose a tax on companies with 500…

Tech Policy Avery Ellis

Why Is Amazon Scared of Bernie Sanders?

Amazon took the time this morning to respond to Senator Bernie Sanders in a blog post where the company decried his “misleading statements about pay and benefits.” We can (and will) address the many counter-claims the company makes. But the inescapable question resulting from this response by a usually tight-lipped, media-averse firm is: Just what…

Commerce Avery Ellis

Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Might Actually Work

On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) unveiled the most comprehensive bill yet to help Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands recover from Hurricane Maria. Far more ambitious than the scattershot federal efforts to-date, the bill asks for $146 billion to overhaul the islands’ energy, medical and housing infrastructure, provide debt relief and fund environmental cleanup. Senator…

Earther Brian Kahn

Pittsburgh Is Going Green, But Who Is Getting Left Behind?

PITTSBURGH — America’s storied “Steel City” is on the forefront of an energy revolution, transitioning from its long reliance on fossil fuels to renewables and energy efficient homes. In June, Mayor Bill Peduto joined an alliance of over 100 cities committing to solar and wind power. The announcement came only hours after President Trump made…

Climate Change Sidney Fussell

Photoshop Contest: Bernie Sanders Emerges From a Pint of Ben & Jerry’s

When it comes to a cool, refreshing pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, we all know Bernie would have one. On Friday, the Vermont Senator tweeted a photo of himself speaking at an undisclosed location with cow print curtains. Though Sanders’ account captioned the pic with an inspiring message, it was hard to ignore…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

14 Large Posters Bernie Should Have Brought to the Senate Floor Instead of That Trump Tweet

Yesterday, Bernie Sanders and his Facebook fan pages took the internet by storm after the cranky senator printed out one of the President-elect’s tweets and set it up on the floor of the US Senate. The moment went spectacularly viral and launched a thousand memes. But while Twitter can occasionally come up with some funny…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Photoshop Contest: What Large Poster Should Bernie Have Brought to the Senate Floor?

On Wednesday afternoon, Bernie Sanders decided to print out a big ol’ copy of a Donald Trump tweet and bring it to the floor of the United States Senate. The incident happened during a debate about the repeal of Obamacare, and the tweet in question was this one: As we noted earlier today, Bernie was…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman

Galaxy Note 10+, Alternate Internets, and Bernie’s Climate Plan: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Bernie Sanders’ $16 Trillion Climate Plan Is Nothing Short of a Revolution

Taking Aim at Amazon and Uber, Sanders Campaign Promises Sweeping Pro-Union Legislation

Sanders, AOC, and Others Demand Workplace Safety Investigation of Amazon

For Prime Day, New Yorkers Order Jeff Bezos to Do Better

AOC and Bernie Sanders Are Asking Congress to Declare a Climate Emergency

Right to Repair Is Less Complicated and More Important Than You Might Think

Hell Yeah, Bernie Sanders Just Endorsed a National Right-to-Repair Law for Farmers

Man Charged With Setting Up Bogus Websites to Scam Bernie Sanders, Beto O’Rourke Donors

Amazon Abandons HQ2 Campus in New York

Senators Sanders and Warren Demand Amazon Explain Its ‘Potentially Illegal’ Anti-Union Video

Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 After Criticism About Workers on Food Stamps [Updated]

Hateful Kitties, Space Lasers, Spider-Man, and Soundbars: Best Gizmodo Posts of the Week

Bernie Sanders Introduces ‘Stop BEZOS Act’ to End Corporate Welfare to Amazon, Walmart

Why Is Amazon Scared of Bernie Sanders?

Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Help Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands Might Actually Work

Pittsburgh Is Going Green, But Who Is Getting Left Behind?

Photoshop Contest: Bernie Sanders Emerges From a Pint of Ben & Jerry’s

14 Large Posters Bernie Should Have Brought to the Senate Floor Instead of That Trump Tweet

Photoshop Contest: What Large Poster Should Bernie Have Brought to the Senate Floor?

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