@rtakver.bsky.social
Probably the only Californian investigative journalist in the history of the North of England. Reporter @desmog.com.
A reminder that, while some of the damage that Trump & GOP are doing might seems temporary, the damage they're doing to the planet is permanent:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
📍 NEW 📍Tech billionaires aren’t denying climate change outright — Instead, they pitch AI miracles and space escape plans to divert attention. Read Rei Takver’s new Q&A revealing this new climate denial playbook. buff.ly/TO4YnoO @rtakver.bsky.social
05.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 5Thanks for pointing this out @geoffdembicki.bsky.social
05.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wasn't expecting Jeff Bezos to literally cut the climate team from the Washington Post the day after we published this interview but I guess this makes a point of sorts...
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
In addition to decimating the Washington Post Jeff Bezos is also the vanguard of a new 'insidious form of climate denial.'
Read @rtakver.bsky.social's fascinating @desmog.com interview with @adambecker.bsky.social about the sci-fi delusions guiding Big Tech.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
Indeed he is, as I reported on last year for @desmog.com.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Jeff Bezos responds immediately to my suggestion:
04.02.2026 21:53 — 👍 128 🔁 40 💬 3 📌 1
Just to complete the Epstein -> Lomborg -> Gates -> Triangle...
@rtakver.bsky.social broke this story late last year...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Why yes, tech billionaires *are* serving wild new forms of greenwashing and climate denial - featuring space and fusion reactors and AI gods. Time to update the playbooks!
Want a how-to guide? Check out my Q&A with science journo @adambecker.bsky.social @desmog.com.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/04/q...
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
29.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 3919 🔁 1835 💬 89 📌 89So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
25.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 8904 🔁 2805 💬 92 📌 112A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
25.01.2026 01:18 — 👍 47172 🔁 18230 💬 1016 📌 1863
If you'd like to support taking action in Minnesota right now, here's a good resource on where to start:
www.standwithminnesota.com
British media owners have made common cause with the fossil fuel industry, to the point where opposition to climate action now outweighs support among UK editorial boards.
19.01.2026 09:32 — 👍 48 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 1
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee"
Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities
Nigel Farage and Reform want their own ICE. "We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command”
08.01.2026 18:18 — 👍 73 🔁 36 💬 3 📌 5
🔴 NEW - Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’
Key members of Nigel Farage’s pro-oil party have been forging financial ties to the UAE.
📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social & @writesbright.bsky.social
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
06.01.2026 07:16 — 👍 1557 🔁 915 💬 144 📌 141Hi! I'm Rei, a reporter who investigates the intersection of climate and big tech, including AI’s voracious energy demands – as well as radical right-wing climate denial politics, greenwashing, and environmental justice issues.
Follow my work @desmog.com, including our Tech vs. Climate series ⤵️
Text card reads: Thinking about... Venezuela: The Precedents At the moment, it looks much more like an American attempt to remove a rival for power and clear the way for an American imperialism directed not so much against Maduro as against Venezuelans as a people. It was striking to hear Donald Trump describe the extraction of Maduro as an “extraordinary military operation,” since this is essentially the same language that Vladimir Putin used in his speech announcing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Read more at Snyder.Substack.com
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
04.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 1549 🔁 632 💬 59 📌 20There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.
04.01.2026 21:57 — 👍 2145 🔁 723 💬 63 📌 18An absolutely masterful deep dive on the guy who effectively ended offshore wind in the US. The sheer, empty malevolence.
15.12.2025 10:50 — 👍 70 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0
This year has been brutal for the #climate movement.
Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven.
Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025.
Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️
AI is fueling progress across sectors—from accelerating innovation in advanced energy technologies and optimizing grid systems to improving energy security and advancing areas like materials science and energy production forecasting. To realize its promise, AI itself needs energy to power these solutions. Zooming out, the rise in energy consumption isn’t only about AI—it’s a symptom of a bigger shift happening across the globe. As the digital economy expands, so does our collective need for electricity. It’s not just data centers driving this demand, we’re seeing this shift everywhere: from industrial production and the electrification of industries to increasing cooling needs amid record-breaking temperatures. The good news? Economists have long found a direct causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth. 28 Energy is a key driver of productivity and income, not just a byproduct of expansion. Technological development drives growth and prosperity, and AI is poised to be a central driver of the next wave of expansion. While there’s
The link between energy and economic growth is undeniable: throughout history and across all regions, higher income levels consistently align with greater energy consumption. Although different economies have different energy intensities, this scatterplot has no real outliers. And the lower right quadrant is empty.
An insight into the headspace of Google (from their 2025 sustainability report) relating to energy consumption. To them, rising energy consumption is the cause of 'economic growth' - and so their own worsening inefficiency and energy greed cannot be anything but a good thing
30.12.2025 16:23 — 👍 33 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
I am SO late to this but this @emdashsanders.bsky.social piece (edited by @emorwee.bsky.social) is great: a deep dive into Exxon's use of dodgy CCS promises to justify fossil gas fuelled power stations to run data centres
A set of keywords that makes me click so hard my mouse shatters into pieces 💥
At this point AI expansion and fossil fuel growth are basically the same thing.
And Charles Koch's political network is working with the Trump administration to shape the strategy.
Read more at @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/t...
