Politics

Democrats Are Trying to Kneecap Ocasio-Cortez’s Climate Change Committee Before It’s Even a Thing

The biggest impediment to Democrats pushing bigger climate action could be…Democrats? Incoming House majority leader Steny Hoyer told reporters on Wednesday that while there’s a plan to reinstate a select committee on climate change, his expectation is that it would lack subpoena power that the former iteration of the committee had. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Ryan Zinke Will Be Drilling Oil Fields in Trump Official Heaven Now

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke—who, when he’s not wearing ranger hats backwards and insisting he’s a geologist has worked diligently to undermine environmental policies and rack up ethics scandals—is out, Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday. Zinke will depart at the end of 2018, the president wrote. Like former Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, Zinke is…

Climate Change Tom McKay

Andy Serkis Doing Gollum as a Brexit-Hungry Theresa May Is the Last Thing You Will See Before You Die

Things have not been going too swell for British Prime Minister Theresa May as of late. After a majority of ministers within the House of Commons voted to find the British government in contempt of Parliament (for the first time in history) for not publishing details about May’s much-maligned Brexit plan that was meant to…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Poland Literally Filled an International Climate Change Conference With Coal

International climate talks are off to an inauspicious start in Poland. They began on Sunday in Katowice, a small city in the heart of Polish coal country, and are already a strong contender for the most tone-deaf meeting in 24 iterations of the UN climate change conference known as the conference of the parties (COP).…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Genius Ryan Zinke Calls Congressman Who Will Likely Be Future Oversight Chair a Drunk

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke—a man who wears ranger hats backwards and spreads conspiracy theories about how “radical environmentalists” are responsible for wildfires when he’s not destroying public land protections and calling for more drilling—just accused a sitting congressman of alcoholism in retaliation for writing that Zinke should resign. Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, the top Democrat…

Earther Tom McKay

The Democrat Who Flipped a Republican Stronghold by Running on Climate Change

The 2018 midterms were a mixed bag for the environment, with some key ballot initiatives failing but several environment-friendly candidates winning their elections. One of those candidates hails from Orange County, California, long considered to be a center of Republican power. In CA-49, previously held by controversial Republican Darrel Issa, Democrat Mike Levin flipped the…

Climate Change David Shiffman

Google Wants a Refund for Its $5,000 Donation to That Senator Who Sure Seems Super Racist

Tech giant Google is on the long list of firms caught donating to a Mississippi senator who has praised the Confederacy, expressed excitement at the prospect of attending a public hanging, and has been called a white supremacist. It seems the company has now, at its own sluggish pace, gone to the trouble of asking…

Tech News Avery Ellis

TV News Allowed Republicans to Spew Unchecked Denial About Major New Climate Report

The Trump administration put out a major report on Black Friday warning of the deleterious effects climate change will have on the U.S. It was an obvious attempt to bury the findings, one that backfired spectacularly as the report garnered front page coverage. It also got the Sunday morning television treatment and that’s where things…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Super Drags‘ Bawdy Queer Humor Is an Important Political Statement

Even though the advertisements for Netflix’s latest superhero series, Super Drags, are all drenched in oversaturated colors and sparkles, there’s a reason the network has been so bullish about drawing attention to the show’s parental advisory warnings. For all the homages to classic hero cartoons like the PowerPuff Girls and Sailor Moon, Super Drags isn’t…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

The Most Vulnerable Nations on Earth Are Holding the World’s First Virtual Climate Summit

For French President Emmanuel Macron to address delegates at this Thursday’s Climate Vulnerable Forum, he would have to hop an 8,510-mile plane ride from Paris to Majuro in the Marshall Islands. Roundtrip, that would put 7.2 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Add in the prime ministers of Grenada, Niger, and Lebanon along with…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

India’s BJP Is Reportedly Using Data From a State-Funded Free Phone Program to Hit Up Voters

India’s right-wing, arch-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using government-subsidized cell phones that have been handed out to millions of people as a campaign tool, the New York Times reported on Sunday, with the BJP using a $79 million free-phone program in the state of Chhattisgarh to appeal directly to voters. According to the Times…

Politics Tom McKay

George Soros Foundation Calls Facebook ‘Vile,’ ‘Reprehensible’ for Pushing Conspiracy Theories

The Open Society Foundations (OSF), a international philanthropic and grantmaking organization, has responded to a bombshell report that senior management at Facebook including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and chief lobbyist Joel Kaplan were involved in hiring a Republican opposition research firm named Definers Public Affairs to counter the company’s growing list…

Social Media Tom McKay

New York Politicians Suggest a Better Place Jeff Bezos Can Stick His New Headquarters

Long Island City—Hundreds gathered this afternoon at Gordon Triangle, smack dab in the middle of a newly proposed campus for Amazon employees. Ringed by local news crews, a coalition of local politicians led by City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer and State Senator Michael Gianaris stated their intent to stop Bezos’s highly incentivized land grab…

Commerce Avery Ellis

The Only Bad Thing About Fox News’ Silent Twitter Protest Is That It Will Eventually End

Imagine, if you will, a world without Fox News. That’s largely been the case on Twitter since Thursday, when many of the network’s official Twitter channels went silent. Apparently, this is all part of a silent protest against the social media network over an angry demonstration at host Tucker Carlson’s house last week. Carlson and…

Politics Tom McKay

PayPal: What If We Banned Both Sides

Payment processing giant PayPal terminated accounts belonging to the far-right Proud Boys organization and its founder, Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, this week in what seemed to be a response to their involvement in a street brawl in New York and well-documented history of violence elsewhere. But it also banned a number of anti-fascist groups…

Tech News Tom McKay

Report: Georgia Officials Are Patching Election Security Holes After Insisting Everything Was Just Fine

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who has refused to recuse his position as the state’s top election monitor as he runs for governor on the Republican ticket, is running a desperate race against his opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams. Georgia is a Republican stronghold and hasn’t had a Democratic governor since 2003, but the race…

Politics Tom McKay

The Startup That’s Trying to Make It Easier to Figure Out What the Hell You’re Actually Voting On

If you think things are messed up right now, you’re not alone: For years, polls have shown that trust in U.S. political institutions is either at rock-bottom levels or damn near close to it. And while elections are supposed to be the way Americans can push through actual, sustainable change, a lagging voting infrastructure has…

Politics Tom McKay

Facebook Banned That Racist Trump Ad

Don’t freak out, but the Trump campaign made a super racist television ad and successfully showed it to millions of people. Facebook just banned it, following similar bans from NBC and Fox News. (Fox News!) Election day is Tuesday. The ad in question deals with the so-called caravan of Central American refugees seeking asylum. It…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

Brian Kemp’s ‘Cyber Crimes’ Investigation Against Democrats Sure Looks Shady

Georgia Secretary of State and increasingly desperate Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, who is tied in the polls with Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams, has shamelessly used his position as the state’s top election monitor to purge hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls and close hundreds of polling sites over the past few years.…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay

HBO Would Like Donald Trump to Stop Using Game of Thrones Memes to Stoke Fear Ahead of Elections [Updated]

Days ahead of the U.S.’s important midterm elections, Donald Trump has continued on his crusade to stoke fear in the hearts of the country’s conservatives with blatant lies and racism. Today, that took the form of a Game of Thrones meme that HBO is none too pleased about. Today, the U.S. president took to his…

io9 Charles Pulliam-Moore

Democrats Are Trying to Kneecap Ocasio-Cortez’s Climate Change Committee Before It’s Even a Thing

Ryan Zinke Will Be Drilling Oil Fields in Trump Official Heaven Now

Andy Serkis Doing Gollum as a Brexit-Hungry Theresa May Is the Last Thing You Will See Before You Die

Poland Literally Filled an International Climate Change Conference With Coal

Genius Ryan Zinke Calls Congressman Who Will Likely Be Future Oversight Chair a Drunk

The Democrat Who Flipped a Republican Stronghold by Running on Climate Change

Google Wants a Refund for Its $5,000 Donation to That Senator Who Sure Seems Super Racist

TV News Allowed Republicans to Spew Unchecked Denial About Major New Climate Report

Super Drags‘ Bawdy Queer Humor Is an Important Political Statement

The Most Vulnerable Nations on Earth Are Holding the World’s First Virtual Climate Summit

India’s BJP Is Reportedly Using Data From a State-Funded Free Phone Program to Hit Up Voters

George Soros Foundation Calls Facebook ‘Vile,’ ‘Reprehensible’ for Pushing Conspiracy Theories

New York Politicians Suggest a Better Place Jeff Bezos Can Stick His New Headquarters

The Only Bad Thing About Fox News’ Silent Twitter Protest Is That It Will Eventually End

PayPal: What If We Banned Both Sides

Report: Georgia Officials Are Patching Election Security Holes After Insisting Everything Was Just Fine

The Startup That’s Trying to Make It Easier to Figure Out What the Hell You’re Actually Voting On

Facebook Banned That Racist Trump Ad

Brian Kemp’s ‘Cyber Crimes’ Investigation Against Democrats Sure Looks Shady

HBO Would Like Donald Trump to Stop Using Game of Thrones Memes to Stoke Fear Ahead of Elections [Updated]

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Epstein Victims Sue Google, Claim AI Mode Exposed Personal Information

‘Wicked Spot’ Is a Fun, Sapphic Rom-Com That Yeets a Witch Into the Magical World of Influencer Culture

Anthropic and OpenAI Just Gave Us a Glimpse Into the Future of Model Pricing

Amazon Slashes 63% Off Acer Aspire Desktop for a Limited-Time Spring Sale, With Keyboard and Mouse Included

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Marvel Just Put ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 in a Very Weird Place in the MCU Timeline

Trump Drops $1B to Kill 2 Wind Farms, Then Watches a Bigger One Go Online

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