Amy Westervelt

@amywestervelt.bsky.social

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

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Sorry not sorry for the next several months of relentless book promotion, I didn't create this system! But for real, though, if you've ever thought anything I do is any good at all, I hope you'll read this book I poured everything into: geni.us/broughttoyouby

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@dptbirder.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

Had a California equivalent to a “snow day” because of El Niño Balboa Boulevard was under water throughout most of the peninsula Long underwater Kelvin waves and the oncoming storm surge caused havoc and preventing me from getting to one of my clients homes today 🌊

@pseudonymble.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

"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."

@adamserwer.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

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...

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

@davidho.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

We need to be less hysterical about potential AMOC collapse in 2100 and way more hysterical about the actual mega El Niño in 2027.

@mschenk.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

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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@jmijin.bsky.socialReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

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/

@sevier.ioReposted by @amywestervelt.bsky.social

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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