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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

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.🧵

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Meriem Mahdhi @meriemm.bsky.social · 8d

My latest for De Smog

DeSmog @desmog.com · 8d

🔴 Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

New investigation reveals how farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers rake in millions in subsidies 👇

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse

This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...

www.desmog.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d

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...

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

www.theguardian.com

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 12d

Blackstone, not Blackrock. Easy to mix up!

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13d

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

Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 13d

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 13d

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 13d

🔴 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

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 ...

www.desmog.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

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?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14d

Preach

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 18d

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 19d

🔴 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

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...

www.desmog.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20d

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

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20d

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.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20d

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

Nvidia says Britain will have to burn gas to power technology revolution

The company chief executive Jensen Huang says the UK’s costly electricity means new data centres will rely on fossil fuel as well as renewable energy

www.thetimes.com

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 26d

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.

Trump sends fracking CEO to Europe to sell climate denial—and gas

Debunking some of Chris Wright's most egregious lies

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 23d

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."

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Clare Carlile @clarecarlile.bsky.social · 27d

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

DeSmog @desmog.com · 27d

🔴 NEW 🔴

Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @phoebecooke.bsky.social

www.desmog.com/2025/09/11/e...

Revealed: EPP-Linked Tax Group ‘Collaborated’ With Far-Right Party on Criminal Complaints

A taxpayers group with close ties to the European People’s Party (EPP) coordinated with Austria’s far-right in the latest escalation of the NGO funding debate, DeSmog can reveal. The Taxpayers Associa...

www.desmog.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28d

"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

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Sep 3

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...

(below emojis of X and a crown) 10.18.25

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · Sep 6

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...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · Sep 3

Some pretty grim fringe sponsors at Reform UK conference this weekend. Big tobacco, climate deniers and more. Oh and the Telegraph of course.

11:00-12:30 → Politics and Prohibition: The Fight for Choice Brought to you by Forest Online Speaking: Simon Clark (Director, Forest), Baroness Claire Fox (Director, Academy of Ideas, and former Brexit Party MEP), Joanna Marchong (Investigations Campaign Manager, TaxPayers' Alliance), Brian Monteith (Former Conservative MSP and Brexit Party MEP), Chris Snowdon (Head of Lifestyle Economics, Institute of Economic Affairs)13:00-14:30 → The Rural Reception Brought to you by The Angling Trust & The British Association for Shooting and Conservation Speaking: Cllr Linden Kemkaran (Leader of Kent County Council)

14:30-16:00 → Revitalising the Great British High Street - how to reverse decades of decline Brought to you by Adam Smith Institute & Japan Tobacco International Speaking: Maxwell Marlow (Director of Public Affairs, Adam Smith Institute), George Seers (Head of UK Public Affairs, Japan Tobacco International), Jim Cathcart (Policy Director, UK Hospitality), Cllr Sean Matthews (Leader of Lincolnshire County Council), Sarah Pochin MP (Reform UK Member of Parliament for Runcorn & Helsby)

11:00-12:30 → Is Climate Realism Inevitable? Brought to you by the Heartland Institute Speaking: James Taylor (President, The Heartland Institute), Lord Christopher Monckton (Former Deputy Leader of UKIP, journalist and public speaker), Lois Perry (Director, Heartland UK & Europe), Andy Mayer (CEO & Energy Analyst, Institute of Economic Affairs), John O'Connell (CEO, TaxPayers' Alliance)

15:00 → Live: The Telegraph Podcast Planet Normal At Reform Special Conference Edition Brought to you by The Telegraph Hosted by acclaimed journalists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan15:30 → Speech: Deputy Leader's Address Richard Tice MP (Deputy Leader of Reform UK and Member of Parliament for Boston & Skegness)15:50 → Closing Remarks Nigel Farage MP (Leader of Reform UK and Member of Parliament for Clacton)

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!

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

www.theguardian.com

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Joey Grostern @joeygrostern.bsky.social · Sep 2

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

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...

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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excellent 😌

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 25

We have launched a series highlighting the positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland 💙

Our team tells you why we felt this was necessary to do 👇

#refugeeswelcome #refugeesarewelcomehere

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · Aug 28

🤦‍♂️ 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...

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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...

www.desmog.com

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