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Daphne Wysham

@daphnew.bsky.social
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Washington State Senior Campaigner, Food & Agriculture, Friends of the Earth, foe.org Co-Coordinator, MethaneEmergencyBrake.org Founding CEO, Methane Action: MethaneAction.org This Land Board Chair: ThisLand.earth

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Miriam Grace in October @miriamgrace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The argument went from “it’s ok to cut NEPA because clean air and water do these reviews better” to absolute crickets when Trump unilaterally decided to completely dismantle those protections
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quite notable that @whitehouse.senate.gov notes purported economic and development benefits but absolutely zero about emissions benefits.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's the view from the American West, far from the ruins of Washington, D.C. politics.
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Five-alarm fire: Radical Senate ‘permitting reform’ bill threatens to eviscerate environmental, wildlife, water, climate laws - Western Environmental Law Center
The Republican-controlled Senate will soon formally announce a legislative “permitting reform” deal to speed the development of AI data centers and energy infrastructure. We expect the Senate will the...
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We're about to hear a load of B.S. about bipartisanship, affordability, and energy. All in service of AI tech, energy, & finance. Not people. We will hear little to nothing about the harms this bill will cause to the West's public lands, waters and wildlife, and communities. Presser at 12:30 ET.
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Heinrich, Lee, Capito and Whitehouse Press Conference to Discuss Bipartisan Permitting Reform Deal
YouTube video by Senate Energy Dems
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 21/09/2026
This year's El Niño event is moving into record territory, with the daily Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) tying the record previously set during the 2015/2016 super-El Niño. My latest over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The latest revelation about Syngenta--on Paraquat and its link to Parkinson's disease--suggests the Supreme Court and the EPA failed to protect us. careygillam.substack.com/p/new-intern...
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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Pesticide use around homes and farms is linked to childhood leukemia and brain tumors. Forty years of studies find higher cancer risks among children exposed during pregnancy and early life to pesticides used on farms, lawns and pets. Via @usrighttoknow.bsky.social usrtk.org/healthwire/p...
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Pesticide use around homes and farms linked to childhood leukemia, brain tumors
Forty years of studies find higher cancer risks among children exposed during pregnancy and early life to pesticides used on farms, lawns and pets.
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
What's been announced? 🐷 Moratorium on new pig factories and expansions 🏘️ Municipalities regain the right to reject pig factory applications 💧 Nitrate limits in drinking water reduced from 50 mg/l to 6 mg/l 🚜 Redirect agricultural subsidies to benefit smaller farms & producers
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
It’s raining microplastics in Jakarta and the problem is only getting worse. They can also be a vector for pathogens that stick to them. Pay close attention to the canary in the coal mine.
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Jakarta: Invisible pollution is falling from the sky | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
According to the American Lung Association's latest State of the Air report, 44% of the US population reside in areas with unhealthy levels of pollution 33 million of these individuals are younger than 18 years old. www.cbsnews.com/news/america...
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Nearly half of U.S. kids are breathing unhealthy air, report says. These are the cleanest and most polluted cities.
The new report evaluated air quality in different parts of the country by measuring the presence of ozone and particle pollution in the atmosphere.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Wow: 1 in 5 Americans are consuming nitrate-contaminated water, thanks in large part to factory farms. insideclimatenews.org/news/2704202...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden. The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite. The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
BREAKING: EPA will close its environmental justice offices. This work spans 30+ yrs and is supported by ample research. This is nothing more than a racist attack on low-income and communities of color who suffer most from the consequences of pollution. foe.org/news/epa-env...
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Decision to Close EPA’s Environmental Justice Offices a Danger to Americans’ Health and Safety
This amounts to a racist attack on low-income and communities of color who suffer most from the consequences of pollution.
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Now, more than ever, we need to continue making progress on the state and local level – and we’re fighting for increased protections in Connecticut, Maryland & Colorado. States need to listen to the science over the exploitative, disinformation-spreading pesticide industry. foe.org/projects/pes...
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Pesticide Policies
We need policy makers to put the health of people and pollinators above the profits of the pesticide industry.
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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
VICTORY! A bill was just signed into law to expand access to nondairy milk options for students! Under current law, students are only guaranteed a substitute for cow’s milk if a parent submits a doctor’s note documenting a disability. foe.org/victory-stor...
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Expanding Access to Non-dairy Milk in Schools
For far too long, students have been denied access to nutritious plant-based beverages at lunch. This bill changes that.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"...All this suggests the agricultural and food sectors are our most likely path to achieve the methane reductions and cooling required to stave off runaway warming and economic collapse. It may be the only chance we have of doing so.." www.paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chr...
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Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency — Paul Gilding
We are about to go through the most profound shift in the climate debate in 20 years. The result will be the end of the gas industry’s hope of being a transition fuel, a brutal market disruption to th...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The rest of the world is heading in the right direction. We just need to accelerate this trend. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
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Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief
Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Some possible problems in trying to rollback the endangerment finding: Trump's climate denial approach might fail in court. wapo.st/4riopkl
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Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Bless you, Mark, and RIP Renee. Be Good. www.etonline.com/media/videos...
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Mark Ruffalo Gives Impassioned Plea for America After Killing of Renee Good (Exclusive)
Mark Ruffalo chats with ET's Kevin Frazier at the 83rd Golden Globes, airing live on Sunday on CBS and Paramount+. The actor reacts to being nominated for his role in 'Task.' He also gives an impassio...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A clear statement of priorities: Industry's bottom line more important than human lives. Of course. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Andy Gheorghiu @andygheorghiu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Every EU company/bank with US #LNG ties is fueling Trump's fascist domestic agenda & imperialistic aggressions abroad! Time to cut the fossil chains @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @marossefcovic.bsky.social @wopkehoekstra.ec.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu!
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We’ve got the roadmap, so let’s start walking our talk. fpif.org/cop30-failed...
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COP30 Was Underwhelming, But a Path Away from Fossil Fuels Already Exists - FPIF
Existing plans to triple renewable energy, double efficiency, and slash methane — coupled with real regulations like the EU’s — offer a way forward.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Let's go! ...Niklas Höehne from the NewClimate Institute said: “The changes in the energy system would be so significant from tripling renewables, doubling efficiency, reducing methane, that they would actually trigger the transition away from fossil fuels... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Progress (and lack thereof) since Paris Climate Agreement: A good summary. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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10 Years After a Breakthrough Climate Pact, Here’s Where We Are (Gift Article)
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/11/2025
Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
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This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Methane action would pay for itself at least 6 times over. Why are leaders kicking the can down the road, costing all of us trillions? Might have something to do with discounting the future. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41166471/
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Global methane action pays for itself at least six times over - PubMed
We provide a comprehensive assessment of the economic benefits and costs of global methane emissions abatement, anchored on the Global Methane Pledge. We use an integrated assessment model to estimate avoided climate damages at the global and country levels, including quantification of tipping point …
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I guess Trump needs to explain why elections were more secure under Joe Biden than they are under him. Must be the auto pen.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I suppose not surprising if you know America, but, wow, there are 2 million Muslim women in the U.S. and only just now, tonight, has even one single part of the country elected a Muslim woman to any statewide office.
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Lead Locally @leadlocally.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Y'all!!! Virginia just won a pro-climate democratic trifecta!
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Angie @angiesuniverse.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Recovery for Haiti (& all of us) beyond temporary aid = stop oil companies from collecting billions in government subsidies and tax breaks each year, even as they report record profits and fund misinformation campaigns to block climate action. #polluterspay www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Hurricane Melissa live updates: dozens reported dead in Haiti after river flooded by hurricane bursts banks
Mayor of a southern Haitian coastal town ‘overwhelmed by the situation’ as he pleads for government support
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Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A 30% increase in Obamacare premiums?! Meanwhile, our national debt has skyrocketed to $37 trillion under Trump in '25. For every $1 Washington spends on Obamacare, it’s spending about $3 on interest to service the national debt. @jeff-merkley.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Average Obamacare premiums are set to rise 30 percent, documents show
The price increases — affecting up to 17 million Americans who buy coverage on the federal marketplace — are by far the largest annual premium increases in recent years.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Memphis is the new playground for Musk's fracked methane-powered AI plants. www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/35-gas-turbi...
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35 gas turbines, no permits: Elon Musk’s dirty xAI secret
In Memphis, AI’s environmental impact is invisible, until you turn on the camera
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Mary Anne Schleinich @interactionfirst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccu-... OMG!! We can transition to 100% clean #renewable energy using less land than O&G, and we can clean up the O&G stranded assets. Also--we can hold O&G accountable for the cost of clean up. @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social @calgaryclimatehub.ca @naheednenshi.bsky.social
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Busting a myth on how much land is needed for the U.S. to run on 100% renewables vs fossil+biofuels
YouTube video by Mark Z. Jacobson
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is an amazing graphic depicting in real time LNG tankers headed to the EU and elsewhere. Well done, @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social experience.arcgis.com/experience/d...
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“They dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, & forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists. International law is clear. Israel is in violation. We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel. Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c... #FreePalestine
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 01/10/2025
"Some have chosen to deride the increasingly evident signs of climate change, to ridicule those who speak of global warming, and even to blame the poor for the very thing that affects them the most." BBC News - Pope Leo condemns climate change critics www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Pope Leo hits out at critics of global warming
In his first major statement on climate change, the pontiff criticises those who minimise climate change.
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Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ) @gcdcj.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
225+ Organizations demand COP30 center people, not polluters. #COP30 is not a place for #BigPolluters to make business deals! @stopcorpabuse.bsky.social
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The Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
424.15 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 29-Sep-2025
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"...This is also the first time that China has announced a target that covers not only carbon dioxide (CO₂) but all GHGs including methane and nitrous oxide, says Zhang Da, who researches energy economics and climate change at Tsinghua University in Beijing..." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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China pledges to cut emissions by 2035: what does that mean for the climate?
The country’s plan to reduce greenhouse gases will largely determine the world’s emissions trajectory, researchers say.
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list - Politico politi.co/4mIbi9F
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Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Best sign so far: "Portland isn't a war zone. It's a book store with a city around it." www.oregonlive.com/news/2025/09...
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‘President Trump, we will see you in court,’ Oregon leaders promise at downtown rally
Over 1,000 people marched through downtown Portland in a peaceful match to protest the deployment of federal troops.
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Perfect response! What city is next? When can we stop putting up with this ridiculous behavior and get our elected officials to say "ENOUGH!"?
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Daphne Wysham @daphnew.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
It is so important that we have strong, free, public media, especially now.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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