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Amy Westervelt

@amywestervelt.bsky.social
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Investigative climate reporter. Ida Tarbell stan. Run Drilled.media, contrib lots of places. Author "Brought To You By" @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social. Pod: push.fm/fl/drilled. YT:@DrilledMedia. Signal: adubs.78.

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We're Skroob @pseudonymble.bsky.social · 2h
"The thing that really made me go, 'Oh my God, these guys are really shaping how we understand things way beyond just climate,'— they spend so much money on trying to shape how people understand the economy... and how it should work, because that’s really helpful when they go to propose policies."
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 2h
Big Oil walked so Big Tech could run and now the two are joining up to take down democracy. In today's pod, @gilduran.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social on how corporations warped the information ecosystem and how the tech billionaires broke democracy drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 3h
In which I argue for censoring companies. And mean it. futureearth.substack.com/p/why-is-big...
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Why Big Tech is Saving Big Oil
Amy Westervelt, the founder of Drilled, on who shapes the way we think, the oil-tech alliance, and the case for censoring companies.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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🇨🇦 thimbles.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @thimbles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
These little features on public utility commissions and the natural monopolies run by utilities are usually on @volts.wtf's beat. But @climatetown.bsky.social just did a "hey, pay attention to this" video that was jolly good. youtu.be/3fDGcZ8qpPM
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Who Broke Your Power Bill?
YouTube video by Climate Town
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We need to be less hysterical about potential AMOC collapse in 2100 and way more hysterical about the actual mega El Niño in 2027.
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A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Palestinians tend to be left out of tallies of assassinated land defenders. On The Spill, @alleenbrown.bsky.social, @amywestervelt.bsky.social & @ninalakhani.bsky.social talk about Global Witness’s annual report on assassinations of land defenders — and who is left out of the data. lnk.to/TheSpill
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Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So great to finally meet you!
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Still thinking about @amywestervelt.bsky.social's brilliant insights from last night. More than anything, I'm thinking about how so many of our institutions and people with power have failed us, especially in climate. In the face of fascism, those with power and resources have retreated, and 1/
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Netzwerk Klimajournalismus Deutschland @klimajourno.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Doubt is their product. And now it's an export. 🛢️🌍 Investigative journalist @amywestervelt.bsky.social has traced how US fossil fuel tactics now shape the debate in Europe. Next Tuesday, she’ll join our lunchtime climate briefing.
Big Oil's Playbook: How Disinformation Crossed the Atlantic. Tuesday, October 13th, 11.55 Berlin time
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isaac @sevier.io · 07/10/2026
There was some real talk tonight by @amywestervelt.bsky.social about how people cannot distinguish between journalism and PR and that this allows people to move between maybe legit journalism jobs into a job just designed to sell you something or someone.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 06/10/2026
Tonight in San Francisco! It’s @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me discussing information pollution, tech fascism and the long-running corporate war on democracy. 7:30 pm at Bird and Beckett Be there! 🔜 birdbeckett.com/event/gil-du...
Photos of Gil Duran and Amy Westervelt announcing their appearance at the bookstore
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/10/2026
San Francisco folks come see @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @gilduran.com tonight in Glen Park! birdbeckett.com/event/gil-du...
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Gil Duran (The Nerd Reich) & Amy Westervelt (Brought to You By) – Bird & Beckett Books & Records
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And just for fun, 2014-15 RAGA Chair was none other than Pam Bondi. Trump contributed $5K in 2014 to RAGA. bsky.app/profile/john...
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As I must point out multiple times a year: 10 Republican AGs coming together means this is a RAGA joint (in this case backing Trump in the sanctions appeal in Trump v. IRS). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... More on RAGA: drilled.media/news/raga/
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The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), a Primer - Drilled
If two or more Republican attorneys general sign onto something, RAGA is in the background coordinating; journalists need to be clear about that so the public can understand what it means.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
How dare you invoke a wrestling move when I’m “talkin’ rape” with a fellow intellectual.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There's something pitch black, darkly funny about a certain herd of online snits celebrating Digger's low box office while we enter stretches above 2C "Mass death" warming in 2027. They for sure don't know what that means otherwise, like or don't like the movie, they wouldn't be celebrating.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hegseth also removed the olive branches, a traditional symbol of wishing peace, from the Department of Defense seal. This, in addition to changing the name to "The Department of War," shows the dangerous belligerency that comes from appointing a frat bro who values testosterone over statesmanship.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sounds like a child of Yarvin 🙃
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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
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Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
If you are outraged about this (and you should be, and I bet you are if you're reading this) and you want to do something about it: crank up that VPN and search for "ICE watch" or related activities + wherever you live. Get your Signal login going. Sign up for everything.
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Evan George @evanlgeorge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m glad to have just finished this fantastic whodunnit by @amywestervelt.bsky.social about our polluted information ecosystem — and how to restore it! — days before the Supreme Court hears Suncor & Exxon’s attempt to short-circuit state court cases about the public harms of Big Oil’s false claims.
A copy of the book “Brought to You By” held by a window in front of houseplants.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of potential interest (and thanks for the inspiration): @doctorvive.bsky.social @climatebrad.hillheat.com @amywestervelt.bsky.social @kevinjkircher.com
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Scoop: Podcaster Benny Johnson is being sued for defamation over his ICE ride-along videos calling protesters "terrorists." www.ms.now/news/benny-j...
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MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson sued for defamation over ICE ride-along videos calling protesters ‘terrorists’
Johnson accompanied top DHS officials last year to an ICE protest, where he pointed out “left-wing terrorists” for his millions of followers across social media.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YEP
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still processing the blur of NY Climate Week, but something that's really stuck in my craw is how increasingly rare it is to meet someone in particularly the US context who has any belief that trumps their desire for access to power, validation, etc. When you find an outlier, protect them!
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
my immune system has thrown in the towel 😩
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the tip of the iceberg - a lot of researchers self-censor to avoid this type of problems. And I mean A LOT. (Note the lovely Iowa/ethanol pipeline connection)
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep hearing from sources about these but had no idea it was THIS many. of course these are also the orgs that squawk about the importance of "academic freedom" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Faulty carbon credit schemes may be violating not only human rights but also international law. UN Special Rapporteur on the Climate Elisa Morgera on why carbon credit markets may be in conflict with a landmark opinion from the International Court of Justice. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just finished chapter 4 of Brought To You By by @amywestervelt.bsky.social. Long time readers of Amy's work know who Ivy Lee and company are. But here, Amy ties them, their think tanks, etc. all together to help us truly understand the threat to our democracy, our planet. #DemolishMegaphones
Photo of part of page 96 of Brought To You By written by Amy Westervelt. Highlighted text reads "Maybe you're thinking, well, Amy, what if his ideas are just better? Fair enough! But it's very hard to evaluate the merits of two competing ideas when one is being amplified with the sort of megaphone that only a giant multinational can afford and the other is being distributed by an academic press while also being constantly criticized and ridiculed by the folks with the griant megaphone. This is where the point Brulle made about the public square really hits home. How can we say that a corporation should have "equal" speech rights to an individual when the corporation is so very capable of drowing out the individual?"
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Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing is inevitable. As Wendell Berry encouraged, we have no right to claim that, and do little/nothing.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's so frustrating!!!
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screaming until the void tells me to shut up @mutedscreaming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'll never forget the student journalists at Columbia who continued to cover the university bringing in an army of cops to dismantle the Pro-Palestine student encampments. Even when the folks at the SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM were prohibited from covering it, they stayed and kept covering. Amazing kids
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Beauty! Day 669 of #GeorgiaProtests! 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is why my eyes roll when anyone says “MAHA wants to do something about chronic diseases” No, it doesn’t MAHA’s leaders, RFK Jr & Jay Bhattacharya, run the US health & health research systems & they have DECIMATED chronic disease prevention What MAHA *says* is divorced from what it *does*
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Mila Atmos @milaatmos.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@amywestervelt.bsky.social joined me on @futurehindsight.com to talk about how the information ecosystem is so polluted that it’s actually limiting our First Amendment rights! Tune in!!
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Public Enemy#666 @lilithnocturne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We gotta also start referring to them as "mass surveillance centers" and not "data centers." Let's all be real, here.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shout out to the readers and listeners who have kept me and @drilledmedia.bsky.social going for years and never once told us to tone it down
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Once again, just kidding, those guys fucking love neoliberalism and the tech industry, stop buying their climate bullshit.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But they're using renewables! a) they're not, they're all quietly pivoting to dedicated natural gas plants, built by their oil buddies, b) renewables should be used to power useful shit c) this makes it so that renewables don't displace fossil fuels, they just add to supply for increasing demand
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Okay sorry, one more thing. I'm fairly outspoken, but I think subconsciously I've been holding back because working in media you're conditioned to be worried about offending other media/journalists. I feel well and truly free of that obligation now, and it's a great feeling. Free to let 'er rip 🔥
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Relatedly, and top of mind coming on the heels of New York Climate Week: a lot of y'all's climate favorites are fucking grifters who care more about building their platforms than anything else. People, we gotta get better at media literacy and critical thinking 💪
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