Rei Takver

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

My latest for De Smog

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has tasked a Conservative peer with writing a new planning bill to remove the ability for environmental groups to delay projects such as Heathrow’s third runway with judicial reviews

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Blackstone, not Blackrock. Easy to mix up!

Crucial reporting on the UK's new, Blackstone-backed data centre that, in "limited circumstances", will run on a fleet of 580 diesel generators.

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...

Pay no attention to the 580 diesel generators that can produce enough energy for 3 million homes behind the curtain...

Oh, and did I mention this data centre is part-owned by a Trump-loving billionaire who sat by Starmer at the royal banquet?

My 📝 for
@desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/09/25/c...

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it ...

🔴 NEW - Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say.

📝 @rtakver.bsky.social

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

Preach

Revealed: ‘Chilling’ Surveillance of Activists by Meat and Dairy Industry The U.S. meat industry has engaged in intrusive surveillance of animal rights groups, including monitoring relationships between activists and tracking employees of leading charities. The industry-fun...

🔴 NEW - The meat industry has been monitoring thousands of animal welfare activists, gathering information on their biological ties and even their romantic relationships.

Vital, shocking exposé from @clarecarlile.bsky.social for @desmog.com

A timely reminder that as President Trump attacks wind power, his sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for...bitcoins.

Bemoaning the cost of UK electricity and in the same breath promising to do the one thing guaranteed to cause that cost to stay sky high is the sort of intellectual brilliance you'll only get from the world's leading tech moguls.

Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas Debunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies

Chris Wright is genuinely a con man selling climate denial to the world in order to enrich himself and his gas industry friends.

This should be a much bigger story.

Reform are proposing to “rescind” the climate emergency
declared by Kent County Council in 2019 in a move branded "anti-science & dangerous" by the Greens on the council

Green cllr Stuart Jeffery: "“Reform’s paper to council is full of conspiracy theories and garbage science. The science is clear."

Calls on top prosecutors to investigate Frans Timmermans were widely covered in July, in escalation of NGO funding debate

What wasn't covered: that the group behind them has close ties to the EPP and "coordinated" with a far-right MEP, who denies climate science

✍️ for @desmog.com

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress

(below emojis of X and a crown) 10.18.25

We’re back. Join our next nationwide day of defiance on October 18. Trump’s regime is abducting immigrants, deploying troops in our streets, rigging maps to silence voters, and defying the courts, but standing up to wannabe kings is part of our DNA. Let’s get to work: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

What Timothy Snyder would call sadopopulism, his video on the subject deserves a listen if you haven't yet.

@davidrvetter.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjJ...

The Reform conference is *very literally* being sponsored by a fossil fuel lobby group, the Heartland Institute.

Oil and gas imports are a problem. Labour should rethink its North Sea stance | Nils Pratley Rachel Reeves could make geopolitical, economic and environmental case for limited boost in production

So 10yrs after @arusbridger.bsky.social launched the #KeepItInTheGround campaign & 6yrs after @katharineviner.bsky.social's #climate pledge

The @theguardian.com finance editor @nilspratley.bsky.social is still writing apologetics for the fossil fuel industry!!!

Here's a short 🧵on how dumb this is!

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

ICYMI

AI 'Slop' Websites publishing climate denial

MSN hosted articles citing fake experts and institutions, posted by group linked to AI-based animal media outlet

This slop used as 'evidence' by climate deniers incl. Heartland institute

(Published while I was away)

My latest for @desmog.com

Excellent 😌

🤦‍♂️ AI slop websites are publishing climate denial, and the people doing it even included the prompt they gave a chatbot to write the nonsense. Great story by @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

Shocking, fascinating and downright ridiculous story from @joeygrostern.bsky.social about AI slop websites churning out climate denial 👇🏻

Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor Nigel Farage’s Reform UK would allow a fossil fuel company owned by a Donald Trump donor to open up a huge fracking site in Greater Lincolnshire, DeSmog can reveal. Andrea Jenkyns, Reform’s mayor in t...

🔴 NEW - Reform Plans to Hand Fracking Windfall to Trump Donor

Farage’s representatives have held meetings with a MAGA-linked fossil fuel firm.

📝 @writesbright.bsky.social & @rtakver.bsky.social

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

🔴 NEW - AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial

MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions.

📝 @joeygrostern.bsky.social

The only information I have on Labour's intent in introducing this act is present in the article.

It cannot be said that Labour has expanded surveillance and data collection with the information provided by my story. The act will not come into force until early 2026. It remains to be seen how Labour's secretary of state uses the new recognised legitimate interest powers.

My story does not say this. Please read my story.