Amy Westervelt
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Writing a book on corporate disinfo for Bloomsbury. She/her/ella in 🇨🇷. Pod: https://push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.
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It’s amazing how many bullshit conspiracies theories there are, when you’ve had this financier-sex-offender<>neoliberal-power-nexus raging in broad daylight for years.
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Jeffrey Epstein appointed Jes Staley and Lawrence Summers as executors of his will
Newly released DoJ documents point to deep ties between influential men and late sex offender
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December 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s amazing how many bullshit conspiracies theories there are, when you’ve had this financier-sex-offender<>neoliberal-power-nexus raging in broad daylight for years.
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Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Bari Weiss lied in her memo. She said segment didn't report administration's legal justification (it does in the very first sentence) and didn't say how many detainees had been charged with crimes as opposed to just those who were convicted (it does). www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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Using the same tactic that gained her notoriety in the first place, Greta Thunberg has been arrested in the UK. The notion that such a peaceful tactic has become an arrestable offense in a democracy like the Uk is really concerning.
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Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard
Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Using the same tactic that gained her notoriety in the first place, Greta Thunberg has been arrested in the UK. The notion that such a peaceful tactic has become an arrestable offense in a democracy like the Uk is really concerning.
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In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is:
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
“Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
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Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
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A key point—new wells produce less and less O&G (Red Queen problem, w/field decline inevitable) creating imperative to plan for a managed transition, econ/revenue diversification, & cleanup of O&G infrastructure.
We must not leave people & communities behind & the land ravaged.
We must not leave people & communities behind & the land ravaged.
This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.
December 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
A key point—new wells produce less and less O&G (Red Queen problem, w/field decline inevitable) creating imperative to plan for a managed transition, econ/revenue diversification, & cleanup of O&G infrastructure.
We must not leave people & communities behind & the land ravaged.
We must not leave people & communities behind & the land ravaged.
This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.
December 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is the (pretty negative) prognosis for the oil and gas industry from the belly of the beast in Texas, even with absolutely every bit of federal and state help they could possibly have. But sure, let's continue to pour all our hopes for "abundance" into this leaky bucket.
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legitimately love this guy.
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
legitimately love this guy.
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Consumer-facing “A.i.” is a fascist project of right wing billionaires to replace actual knowledge and human interaction with lies, disinformation, slop, and propaganda.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Consumer-facing “A.i.” is a fascist project of right wing billionaires to replace actual knowledge and human interaction with lies, disinformation, slop, and propaganda.
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"Always been the US tradition, but it's never been quite this blatant" really covers a lot of things these days.
A new cohort of US ambassadors has in recent months been appointed to Europe’s capitals.
They are “basically all relatives, close friends or big givers [donors]”, said one EU diplomat. “That’s always been the US tradition, but it’s never been quite this blatant."
They are “basically all relatives, close friends or big givers [donors]”, said one EU diplomat. “That’s always been the US tradition, but it’s never been quite this blatant."
‘Like Maga disciples’: meet the Trump envoys raising eyebrows in Europe
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December 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"Always been the US tradition, but it's never been quite this blatant" really covers a lot of things these days.
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2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
December 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?
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Takes halfway through this article to get there but, yeah its not just Fuentes preaching blood and soil politics, the most prominent person doing that, quite explicitly, is JD Vance (like Vivek, a Peter Thiel protegee) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Ramaswamy Challenges Conservatives on Surging Bigotry on the Right
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December 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Takes halfway through this article to get there but, yeah its not just Fuentes preaching blood and soil politics, the most prominent person doing that, quite explicitly, is JD Vance (like Vivek, a Peter Thiel protegee) www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense
How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense - UNICORN RIOT
As Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright claims you should “build data centers” if “you want low electricity prices,” more than 200 environmental organizations have joined to “demand a halt to the bui...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
NEW: Data Centers, the Climate Crisis, and Community Defense
How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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How Local Activists are Interrupting Big Tech AI Investments
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The New York Times knows this is disinformative fossil fuel industry propaganda but published it anyway. This (via @amywestervelt.bsky.social) might have something to do with it:
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December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The New York Times knows this is disinformative fossil fuel industry propaganda but published it anyway. This (via @amywestervelt.bsky.social) might have something to do with it:
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
DOJ broke the law today by refusing to produce all the Epstein files. It also broke the law by redacting information other than to protect victims. Yet, the corporate media is acting that DOJ did us a huge favor.
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
Now, more than ever, help build independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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The Epstein Files, everybody!
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Epstein Files, everybody!
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If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now
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Feds launched fresh assaults on Chicago, Columbus this week. Coming up on two weeks of terror in Minneapolis. Ongoing activity around New Orleans, with the worst yet to come. LA area hit hard again this week, too. Federal task force / joint local police ops still devastating Memphis.
December 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Feds launched fresh assaults on Chicago, Columbus this week. Coming up on two weeks of terror in Minneapolis. Ongoing activity around New Orleans, with the worst yet to come. LA area hit hard again this week, too. Federal task force / joint local police ops still devastating Memphis.
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Forcing the AG to publicly defend every redaction, line-by-line, would be a fun exercise.
Schiff: "I think we ought to bring Pam Bondi before the Senate Judiciary Committee demand answers as to why the DOJ has violated the law."
December 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Forcing the AG to publicly defend every redaction, line-by-line, would be a fun exercise.
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rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
U.S. plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn
Man, my t-shirt becomes more relevant every year, I hate it.
December 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Man, my t-shirt becomes more relevant every year, I hate it.
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Throwing down my prediction: this is a piece of SpaceX satellite that fell to Earth and smash up a Tesla car in self-driving mode
Prediction based on that's what I want to be
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Prediction based on that's what I want to be
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Object that smashed windscreen unlikely to be anything 'from space'
Scientists were hoping an object that smashed the windscreen of a self-driving car in October was a meteorite, but SA Museum's investigation says it remains a mystery.
www.abc.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Throwing down my prediction: this is a piece of SpaceX satellite that fell to Earth and smash up a Tesla car in self-driving mode
Prediction based on that's what I want to be
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Prediction based on that's what I want to be
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Huge shout out to @alleenbrown.bsky.social, since her amazing @drilledmedia.bsky.social SLAPP'd podcast laid foundation for this investigation. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
Welcome to SLAPP’d | Episode 1: How did we get here?
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Huge shout out to @alleenbrown.bsky.social, since her amazing @drilledmedia.bsky.social SLAPP'd podcast laid foundation for this investigation. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...