Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—
If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”
“We could never do THAT in OUR city.” Leadership doesn’t make excuses. Via the Urban Truth Collective. Background image of people walking on a popular Montreal pedestrianized street and people-place.
NEW: “The initiative is less an advocacy group & more a communications intervention. Its premise is blunt: the reason so many good urban ideas stall isn’t because they’re wrong—it’s because they’re losing the narrative war.” Read about us in @momentummag.bsky.social! momentummag.com/urban-truth-...
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
Hi everyone.
I hope all of you seeing this post will consider clicking “follow” on our new account/initiative, @urbantruth.bsky.social, and maybe share your fav of our many ad posters.
That would help us have the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.
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“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective
Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.
Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth
Public housing ends up being cheaper, as well as being a social good.
It’s almost like homelessness is caused by a lack of homes 🤔
Share, share, share.
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DON'T COME HERE.
They kidnap people off the streets & throw them in filthy holes.
They don’t care who you are.
They don't care if you're white, either, if you think that'll save you.
They have quotas.
(It’s all about money.)
THE US IS NOT SAFE.
STAY AWAY.
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Israel first Megadonor Miriam Adelson gives 40 million to Republican super PACs for
midterm elections
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Mamdani: "What are we fighting for?. When you look back at the history books of our party, 100 years ago we had a very clear vision of what we were fighting for. It's sad that for too many Americans, when they want to look for ambition in the Democratic Party, then have to turn to a history book."
It is very weird that we never hear about this. We don't hear about the case, we don't hear about the incident, we don't hear about the Secret Service and any analysis they did on mistakes made. And the weirdest part of all is that Trump never talks about it. Ever. Why isn't Trump milking it?
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
image is a screencap of text from an atlantic article ("The FBI Director Is MIA") by sarah fitzpatrick. it reads: On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired by the White House, according to nine people familiar with his outreach. Two of these people described his behavior as a “freak-out.”
kash patel is a bloke who knows he's not up to the task. at least he's right about that part.
(from @sfifz787.bsky.social's great article in atlantic which is here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...)
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
which means progressive orgs need to stop treating "say it once in a perfect thread" as a comms strategy.
repetition isn't dumbing it down. it's how meaning gets built.
“Repetition Legitimizes”
It’s a saying about songwriting. It makes things “sticky” in your mind.
It works, which means it can work *for* things, not just against.
There are a few billionaires and billionaire families that are literally ruining the country and the planet for everyone else in order to enrich themselves even further. The Koch brothers are among the worst.
Rewatch Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
That’s it. That’s the post.
….
Ok it’s not quite the whole post. The movie doesn’t have to be based on a provable conspiracy, since those are really hard to prove, & it’s a movie with cartoons! But there’s plenty of evidence of dark money attacking public transit.
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As Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr. is now suppressing studies that don't support his anti-vaccine stance.
“Carol Off digs deep into six words whose meanings have been distorted and weaponized in recent years—including democracy, freedom and truth—and asks whether we can reclaim their value.”
Sounds like an excellent and really important book.
Would love to chat about @urbantruth.bsky.social, Carol.
This is a fantastic article about @urbantruth.bsky.social and their effort to combine city-building evidence with simple yet bold (and often witty) storytelling.
They aim to change the narrative away from misinformation, influence the public & decision-makers, leading to better cities for people.
@urbantruth.bsky.social and the Fight to Fix Misinformation About Bike Lanes, Traffic, and City Living.
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“Koch brother groups have tried to derail public transit plans in other cities around the country, from Little Rock, Arkansas and central Utah, to Nashville and Michigan. They have frequently called such projects ‘wasteful spending’. The Koch organization is also heavily invested in fossil fuels.”
It 100% HAS NOT.
Don’t let the liars win.
In the (paraphrased) words of @tomflood.bsky.social it’s no big conspiracy, I just don’t want to go far for stuff.
“The single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” — FrameWorks Institute Via Urban Truth Collective
When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
Repetition works.
(Did we mention that repetition works?)
#UrbanTruth
Really gotta emphasize this: the targets & requirements in the Clean Power Plan were *so* modest, *so* conservative, *so* unambitious that *the power sector met them anyway, in the course of normal market operation*. The regs would have had basically no effect at all relative to the status quo.
