Image of a car filled highway in congestion and gridlock, with three cigarette packs in front, one named gas, the second named hybrid, and the third named EV. The main text says “taste the freedom.“ At the bottom is the tagline for the Urban Truth Collective. Car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
Car dependency is a hell of a drug. #UrbanTruth
Associations between pharmaceutical industry interactions with physicians and chronic nonmalignant pain management prescribing practices: a systematic review
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Mohammed Gharbia, Lydia Iladiva, @frankmoriarty.bsky.social, Tom Fahey & @jameslarkin13.bsky.social
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
PLEASE HELP US SHARE THIS: “We’ve let the lies be far too successful, and that’s significantly hurt our cities. No more.”
It’s our blunt NEW @usa.streetsblog.org op-ed sharing why we’ve created @urbantruth.bsky.social. SPOILER: We need to call out the lies and tell the truth much more persuasively!
This post is absolutely essential reading.
What was present in many national governments – lies, denial of science, and hatred for humanists – is now coming to our cities. We must say no!
Let's read it and share it widely.
Now more than ever, our cities must uphold the values of humanist urbanism.
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This is SO useful, and so affirming – restores clarity amid a constant sense of being gaslit.
Billboard ad for public transit visible from a freeway filled with cars and congestion, that says “You are not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
One of the best of all time.
“You’re not stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic.”
Wish we had come up with that one. #UrbanTruth
Anderson Cooper: “So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”
Answer: “Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth
The addictive design of social media is a major problem with serious impacts on public health and endangering democracy
Our new report reveals intense #lobbying by Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to block or water down EU measures against social media addiction 🚨
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...
Each year, over $6 TRILLION flows to food, road, and fossil fuel industries whose products are associated with more than 5.5 MILLION preventable deaths...
How does industry manage to stay unregulated AND on top of the list for government handouts?
Read the full article: tinyurl.com/ypzn8f84
Thank you @grantennis.bsky.social for the eye opening stat - we cite your book, 'Dark PR' again in this piece. And thank you to @drayselsultan.bsky.social, @markpetticrew.bsky.social, @lisaangelica.bsky.social, and @foodactive.bsky.social. We also cite your work here. Your work informed ours!
Another link to the Bloomberg Story on the Atlas of Inner City Highway Impacts: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“A bill under consideration by the New York state legislature would prohibit artificial intelligence-powered chatbots from providing legal or medical advice, and it would allow users to sue chatbot owners who violate the ban.”
Most of the knowledge we need has been around for a long time.
1976: about the time when I rejected a driver's license. Inspired by what? I still don't know. But somehow I understood already then, that car society was heading the wrong way.
STUDY: Despite conventional wisdom that increases in car fuel efficiency results in decreased gasoline consumption, Jevons’ Paradox holds. For every 1 mile/gallon of increased fuel efficiency there’s an associated 1.2 mile increase in vehicle miles travelled.
The better the car, the more we drive.
“After analyzing crash data over a 13-year period in areas with separated bike lanes on city streets, researchers estimated that having a protected bike facility in a city would result in 44% fewer deaths and 50% fewer serous injuries than an average city.”
Safer for ALL.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org
Image of an urban arterial jammed with cars and trucks congestion, with the text saying our dependency doesn’t equal to freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Message via the Urban Truth Collective.
1946: Freedom is being able to drive anywhere.
2026: Freedom is not having to drive everywhere.
(above text suggested to us by @harrisongibbons.bsky.social)
“One of the first myths we have to kill is that safety costs money.”
- Swedish National Road Administration, 2004 web.archive.org/web/20051029...
“Conspiracy theories about globalist cabals, climate hoaxes and election fraud may seem ubiquitous on social media. But a report has found that they come from a tiny minority of users…
just 100 users were responsible for almost 70% of online conspiracy posts…”
Via @nationalobserver.com #UrbanTruth
Image of busy walking street with shops on the ground floor and other uses (offices, apartments) above. The text line says “Wait, we’re afraid of walkable distances now?” Tag line of the Urban Truth Collective at the bottom.
Conspiracy lovers and opportunistic politicians, with some wealthy folks working behind the scenes, have been trying REALLY hard to make us scared of the simple idea of having more things nearby, and more choices in how to get them.
Weird, right? #UrbanTruth
100 accounts are behind majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n...
"...analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from influencers."
Those on "X were the biggest culprits."
This is so good, we wish WE had made it! The history & lunacy of the disinformation campaign around 15-Minute Cities, by 2 “non experts” @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social who show how experts SHOULD be communicating. Thanks to the @originstorypodcast.bsky.social podcast. #UrbanTruth
In a conversation between June Jordan and Angela Y. Davis, published in 1990, Jordan said she was concerned about how much despair there is cuz people often take it out on themselves.
She said she wanted a return to rage, where it’s taken out on the system.
This list was created by journalist Char Adams, the author of Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore.
bookriot.com/black-owned-...
💙📚 #booksky
reporter here. this will never change.
