Reform has already told us how they want to accomplish this deportation of 400k: with a surveillance tool that will use vast quantities of government held personal data. Labour basically legalised it.
It can still be stopped.
My recent reporting @thenerve.news 👇
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-dep...
"Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK Party said it would review all asylum claims going back five years if it wins power at the next general election, deporting those deemed to have entered the country “illegally” or overstayed visas."
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An AI-generated image of a UK petrol station with cars queuing in the forecourt. In the background an image of a billboard that reads "Support UK Fuel Production." Text on top of the image reads "Should the UK produce its own fuel again?" above "yes" and "no" text with the 'like' and 'heart' symbols to encourage Facebook users to 'vote'
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Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
▶️ Meta pays grifters to post AI slop Facebook, this Sri Lankan group cashed in by pushing UK-themed climate slop about UK 'fuel production'
My latest for @desmog.com
www.desmog.com/2026/04/17/s...
My good friend @amywestervelt.bsky.social talks about how she inadvertently ended up covering Thiel and Musk via her climate coverage in California. “The fossil fuel industry and tech industry operate in the same way. … I see this as an unholy alliance.” Says they use the same PR & law firms. #ijf26
BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.
The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm
So we’re taking legal action.
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
New: Big Tech secures secrecy in EU data centre law, keeping critical environmental information out of reach.
Microsoft and DigitalEurope – a lobby representing Amazon, Google and Meta – successfully pushed for an amendment classifying information on individual facilities as confidential.
GOOD IDEA: The Energy Information Administration is making plans for a mandatory survey of data centers covering their actual energy use, on which we have surprisingly solid little information. @mollytaft.com with the news:
“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights”
Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand.
Hungary shows us we must never give them power.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...
“Centralising this data into a single tool for ‘relentless’ deportations would import an American model that strips away our fundamental rights” – Duncan McCann
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-deportation-ope...
My reporting in the Nerve 👇
It’s never been more clear that Donald Trump has completely lost his mind.
It’s our responsibility to call on Congress, the military, and any sane individual in this administration to stop him from committing war crimes against the Iranian people.
This new investigation by Rei has all the goods and more on this:
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Reform wants to power a UK version of ICE with a panopticon-like surveillance tool pumped up with vast quantities of government held personal data - Labour has essentially legalised it.
There's still time to stop it.
Read how in my story @thenerve.news 👇
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-dep...
Essential piece by my colleague @rtakver.bsky.social for @thenerve.news about Reform’s plan to harness vast amounts of personal data to create an ICE-style deportation-surveillance agency
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Bezos is one of the biggest funders of climate orgs but behaves like someone who works for the oil and gas industry. Which makes one wonder what he gets in return for all of those donations.
"according to the Bezos Earth Fund, AI could be humanity’s best hope for curbing climate change"
UPDATE: The government has deleted the (implausible) analysis of AI emissions referenced in this article from its website 🤔
It has replaced it with a note: "We keep analysis under routine review, and are updating this modelling to ensure it reflects the most up to date assumptions and analysis”
If you're at an airport today, we'd LOVE to know what it's like interacting with ICE instead of TSA. You can DM me or find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82.
Labour's estimates of the future emissions of UK data centres could be an absurdly vast undershoot - the reality could be *hundreds* of times worse.
Great to see this vital reporting on UK AI and energy from @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social at @carbonbrief.org
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-co2...
The inevitable outcome of the strategic communications plan of immediately forgetting why we're doing any of this and pretending to be energy affordability campaigners instead.
Climate will be back, but for now: support the real ones who haven't given up focus and fight. There are many of them ✊🏽
"'Democrats in Congress have been silent...There has been no pushback on this,' Morano said."
Why is longtime climate denier Marc Morano is happy that Democrats have stopped talking climate? As I told The Guardian, because it helps the Trump regime. Obviously.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mike Sommers, President and CEO of API, stating: "Encouraging to see momentum building again around permitting reform negotiations in Washington. America is the world's top producer, but we can’t deliver affordable, reliable energy if critical infrastructure is stuck in red tape. The time for durable reform is now."
The American Petroleum Institute's #1 priority is "permitting reform," a euphemism for letting energy & tech data center industries bulldoze over our lands, waters, & communities.
This is about money & power. Not climate. Not our economy. Not even energy.
Money. And power.
Act accordingly.
Just one proposed data centre in England would produce annual climate emissions equivalent to all British Airways flights within the UK and to Europe - important story from @adamvaughan.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Just **one** UK data centre with the emissions of **all British Airways flights**
AI data centre to match carbon footprint of BA flights Planning documents for a £10 billion project in Lincolnshire reveal its annual emissions will reach one million tonnes of carbon dioxide new Adam Vaughan, Environment Editor Monday March 09 2026, 6.40pm GMT, The Times Illustration of a British Airways airplane flying above server racks, against a teal background with a large yellow circle. The Elsham Tech Park’s emissions would be similar to a year of British Airways short-haul flights within the UK and to European destinations A single AI data centre would generate annual carbon emissions on a par with a year of British Airways short-haul flights, figures show. Planning documents show that Elsham Tech Park project on a former RAF base near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, would emit about a million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. That would put the scheme, billed as helping companies to “improve the way they use artificial intelligence”, on a level with BA flights within the UK and from Britain to Europe. It would also be similar to a major cement works in Derbyshire and a gas-fired power station in Bedfordshire. The UK emits about 364 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The figures were published by North Lincolnshire council. A surge in plans for data centres has led MPs to call for a national conversation about their environmental impact. The Times revealed that about 140 data centres have asked regulators for a connection to the national electricity grid. If all were built, they would require more electricity capacity (50 gigawatts) than Britain’s peak demand on a February day (45GW). The new 1GW data centre in Lincolnshire, where developers hope construction will start next year, would reach peak annual emissions of 1,004,478 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2033. The emissions are those from the electricity needed to operate the facility. Illustration of the proposed data centre near the Elsham Wolds Industrial Estate. The project is on a former RAF …
Another fossil-fuelled data centre emissions estimate (via @adamvaughan.bsky.social) -> UK project will see 1 MTCO2-e, about the same as all British Airways flights in the country
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Europe’s waterways are under threat as the mining lobby pushes for looser environmental protections.
New from me for @desmog.com 👇
www.desmog.com/2026/03/10/e...
“Nothing happened. There wasn’t even a whimper.
The Trump administration just marched in and destroyed the crown jewel of climate science in the United States”
- Robert Brulle
fyi @marchudson.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @grassrootbeer.bsky.social
Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback?
Climate deniers expected more resistance. But Democrats, billionaires and activists have gone silent, writes @desmog.com's @rtakver.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🌎
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🚨 Techno-optimism reduces willingness to address climate change 🚨
In a new preprint, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @fdabl.bsky.social, and I examined the causal effect of techno-optimist beliefs on the willingness to contribute to addressing climate change.
🔗 Read the paper: lnkd.in/eE847_jK
🚨Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the environment. Where’s the pushback?
So excited to see Rei (@rtakver.bsky.social) in The Guardian! 🎊🎊
At the Heartland Institute event, Morano expressed delighted “shock” over the “flips on climate” of tech moguls Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, the founders of Amazon and Microsoft respectively, whose companies have abandoned once-ambitious climate promises as they confront the skyrocketing energy demands of their AI businesses. Gates, whose foundation has donated millions of dollars to a think tank run by climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg, published a controversial memo in October arguing that climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and advocating for ending climate funding in favor of direct humanitarian aid. Microsoft and Amazon, which have donated large sums to Trump, have both recently embraced fossil-fuel powered AI data centers alongside Trump energy officials and fossil fuel industry players. In early February, Bezos, who is also the owner of the Washington Post, slashed at least 14 reporters from the venerated paper’s climate desk. Just weeks later, the Post published an editorial board opinion, “EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach,” praising Trump’s repeal of the endangerment finding. Morano noted that overall, journalists have been reporting less aggressively about Trump’s fossil fuel agenda. “When you have Lee Zeldin, the EPA chief, calling climate a cult, a scam, religion, he doesn’t even get push-back from reporters,” Morano said. During Trump’s first term, by contrast, environmental officials like Scott Pruitt, who led the Environmental Protection Agency from February 2017 to July 2018, “would have to be very careful on climate,” Morano said. Otherwise “they would be beaten and browed by the media.”
No one is happier at the 'don't mention climate' thing than the absolute worst climate deniers
Great new @rtakver.bsky.social piece in @desmog.com with some harsh criticisms at the dropping of climate as a priority
feat @doctorvive.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
www.desmog.com/2026/03/04/c...
