Rei Takver
Probably the only Californian investigative journalist in the history of the North of England. Researcher at DeSmog UK.
- Manufacturing boredom is a strategy in this media landscape to get things done without the media or social media getting its mitts on it. This is happening in the creep of far right politics in the UK too. Notice where the boring is happening or you miss the full story.
- Reposted by Rei TakverMillionaire Dale Vince is once again campaigning against heat pumps in the media, while marketing his own company's solution, which is biogas made from grass cuttings.
- Reposted by Rei TakverStarmer was right at PMQs to say Badenoch has flip-flopped on net zero. I compiled her climate changes here: www.desmog.com/2025/02/28/k... @desmog.com 1/2
- 🛑 Stop underestimating the hell out of Reform Party Chairman Zia Yusuf, multimillionaire right-hand man to Nigel Farage! 🛑 Please. He's got “extraordinary” constitutional powers within Reform UK and has grand visions of becoming the tech bro behind an Elon Musk-inspired DOGEing of Britain.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Zia Yusuf Wants to be the UK’s Elon Musk The Reform chair has long expressed his admiration for the DOGE chief, and is now trying to replicate his policies in local government. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/05/08/z...
- Reposted by Rei Takver🚨More from the excellent @rtakver.bsky.social on Reform's Zia Yusuf, and his strangely familiar plans for the UK. Read it and be informed.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Zia Yusuf Wants to be the UK’s Elon Musk The Reform chair has long expressed his admiration for the DOGE chief, and is now trying to replicate his policies in local government. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/05/08/z...
- Reposted by Rei TakverA really important, and deeply alarming, investigation by my friend @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com about Reform. "Reform UK’s new constitution grants “extraordinary” levels of power to its chair Zia Yusuf... “Officially it would be quite difficult to engineer Yusuf’s dismissal”
- Don't fall into the trap of underestimating tech multimillionaire Zia Yusuf - he wants to be the UK's Elon Musk and he has vast vast power in Reform UK. Not even Nigel can fire him. He alone can declare emergency powers. He's so much more than a man in a suit running the office. Look closer.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf has been accused of a "power grab" through the party's new constitution. His promise to "democratise" the party seems to be entirely hollow. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com
- Reposted by Rei TakverSo much power in the hands of the Party Chair, with seemingly no checks on that power. As @rtakver.bsky.social points out in the article, how many of the new Candidates that voted for the constitution realised how much power they were handing over?
- Reposted by Rei Takver🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform UK chair Zia Yusuf has been accused of a "power grab" through the party's new constitution. His promise to "democratise" the party seems to be entirely hollow. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social for @desmog.com
- Reposted by Rei TakverYou need to read @rtakver.bsky.social's exposé on Reform's Zia Yusuf, a man who is consolidating power, and who has plans to do to the UK what Elon Musk is doing to the United States.
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Chair Zia Yusuf Accused of ‘Power Grab’ Through New Constitution Farage’s right-hand man has been accused of awarding himself sweeping, unchecked authority within the party. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
- Zia Yusuf, the man behind Reform UK's turquoise curtain, has managed to get enshrined via the Reform Constitution into an un-sackable chief gatekeeper, secret-holder, and disciplinarian. He's intent on bringing DOGE and Trump tactics to Britain. Don't underestimate him. Now on @desmog.com
- 🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform Chair Zia Yusuf Accused of ‘Power Grab’ Through New Constitution Farage’s right-hand man has been accused of awarding himself sweeping, unchecked authority within the party. 📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
- Reposted by Rei TakverYes. We keep writing headlines that assign powers to the president that he does not have.
- This is impoundment, it is illegal, and that should be in the headline www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
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- 🟣 New in @nowthenmag.bsky.social 🟣 "Technology is ancient – indigenous communities have always been technological" Enviro justice technologist + researcher Jocelyn Longdon on how we can learn from indigenous wisdom and the climate action of marginalised people. nowthenmagazine.com/articles/joy...
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- Reposted by Rei Takver1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Rei Takver🔴 NEW 🔴 We have uncovered the mining magnates behind the new Reform think tank ‘Resolute 1850’ - which has already raised £1 million and is seeking more from MAGA donors. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report with @adambarnett.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Rei TakverLesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." ***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.*** Find yours here: handsoff2025.com
- Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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- Reposted by Rei TakverNEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com
- Reposted by Rei TakverGermans have been subjected to covert Russian propaganda as well as overt American propaganda - jointly in support of the far-right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...
- Musk, Vance and their support for the anti-American, pro-Russian German far-right From Jamie Kirchik www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
- Reposted by Rei TakverSomething is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)
- Reposted by Rei TakverIt is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
- Reposted by Rei TakverIt may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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- Reposted by Rei TakverI’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
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- Reposted by Rei TakverThis is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
- Reposted by Rei TakverYou are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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- Reposted by Rei TakverI'm a journalist. My profession is the only one named and protected in the U.S. Constitution. Our founding fathers understood that if the press was stifled, their new democracy would not survive. Here's how you can help journalists like me preserve democracy: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
- Reposted by Rei TakverRemember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org
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- Reposted by Rei TakverIt’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.
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- There is mounting evidence that a new Doncaster Sheffield Airport, a priority project for Mayor Oliver Coppard, will harm #SouthYorkshire economically and environmentally. It can still be stopped. For details, read this excellent investigation by @sammgreg.bsky.social for @nowthenmag.bsky.social.
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- It really was delicious @thierryaaron.bsky.social ya outdid yoself :).
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