This is @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social territory. From Metahaven’s 2016 film, The Sprawl: “There’s a steady stream of disinformation whose purpose seems to be to undermine the very idea that truth is provable.”

dfrlab.org/2025/07/07/p... @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

The book Dark PR talks about international sugar subsidies and how sugar is promoted in other countries and I just had no idea.

www.puregym.com/blog/where-g... @felly500.bsky.social

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

We need to spend a lot more time talking about Big Wellness

This is a brilliant table!!!

Thanks @olaln.bsky.social ! Original here from www.amazon.com/DARK-PR-Corp...

Almost like the car industry pumps a hell of a lot of money into dark PR to keep Brits locked into the car dependency that funnels billions more than are needed to itself. Both the cost of living and obesity crises would be a long way to being solved if we ended car dependency and returned choice.

Dark PR in action: how devious framing is used to defend car dependency by shaping debates and muddying evidence. 📎 Gilbert et al. Unlearned lessons and misplaced hopes: discursive spaces of transport in twenty-first century Australia. Australian Geographer. 2025 Dec 6:1-6.

Short blog coming This story made me mad!!!

Excellent @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Paradise Valley, Detroit, seen on a John Lee Hooker album cover that captures the neighborhood before it was demolished for construction of the Chrysler Freeway and “urban renewal” in the 1960s. More info: www.segregationbydesign.com/detroit/hast...

NEW/LISTEN! Been REALLY looking forward to this one — my interview with Jason from #NotJustBikes IS LIVE on many podcast platforms plus YouTube! We cover a LOT of really important ground on how to ACTUALLY ACHIEVE BETTER CITIES IN REAL PRACTICE! I’m looking forward to your thoughts and comments!

This headline…. what a way to generation-blame for industry malfeasance @felly500.bsky.social

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m... 1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm 2. Why it happens 3. It's not new 4. How it happens 5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic

Dark PR - applied to roads, cars and driving Discourse and how it is shaped has very real public policy (& thus outcome) consequences Thus a v legit target for those seeking better outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Great article

Amazing to me how many people upload their CVs to a grant management system with filenames like ‘CV template SC’.

Highly recommended

doi.org/10.1080/0004... @ianwalker.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @frameworks.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social @davidzipper.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @sgoodyear.bsky.social @parismarx.com @norton.bsky.social

Hey Podcast listeners, are you a Nebula subscriber? If yes, you can listen to my NEW INTERVIEW with #NotJustBikes @theurbanistagenda.com TODAY. We cover LOTS of interesting ground. Don’t worry, if you’re not on Nebula, watch for the FULL release on many platforms on FRIDAY! nebula.tv/agenda/how-t...

AR2025: We have added videos and transcripts of yesterday's live sessons with Grant Ennis and Alice Wiseman, both in full and as a sample. These come in addition to a dozen insightful Spotlight sessions on the same page. @grantennis.bsky.social @adphuk.bsky.social alcohol-review.com

"Gavin Menzies [claimed] that the Chinese sailed to America before Columbus. Historians have rejected Menzies' theories and assertions and have categorised his work as pseudohistory." @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_M...

Here's the journal article written with past Pod guest and friend of the Channel @grantennis.bsky.social that prompted the recording of this episode: bit.ly/4iHFql6

And a big mahalo to @grantennis.bsky.social for making the introduction 🙏

PREMIERE ALERT Pls tune in tmw, Wed, Dec 3rd, at 2 pm EST for my conversation w/ Dr. Matthew "Tepi" Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, for a conversation about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity youtu.be/ZGIatCdRQVY

Oops! Forgot to tag you @healthtepi.bsky.social

It’s frustrating to watch interviews like the one between the @thedailyshow.com’s Jon Stewart & @elizkolbert.bsky.social tonight, suggesting we don’t know the solutions to the #ClimateCrisis, & better solutions aren’t “politically viable.” WE KNOW THE SOLUTIONS, AND ONLY CORRUPTION MAKES THEM HARD.

“I've recommended this book so many times! You'll learn about the PR strategies and government subsidies that promote and prop up cars and car infrastructure, fossil fuels, and unhealthy food. You can't change the world by buying virtuously. Organize! To change systems!” - @lizzzs.bsky.social

I've recommended this book so many times! You'll learn about the PR strategies and government subsidies that promote and prop up cars and car infrastructure, fossil fuels, and unhealthy food. You can't change the world by buying virtuously. Organize! To change systems!

““Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.” - @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Tonight’s #UrbanismBookClub book tackles better city-making from the communications, branding, & public relations spheres. “Dark PR: How Corporate Disinformation Undermines Our Health & Environment” by my friend @grantennis.bsky.social is a HUGELY important book today. Every urbanist should read it.

Pubblicità sociale: le campagne di educazione stradale non riducono gli scontri stradali, secondo numerosi studi [Grant Ennis, Dark PR] benzinazero.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/p... #comunicazione #sicurezza #violenzastradale #comunicazionesociale

Not quite 5 bucks like before, but 7 ain't bad...

A stamp of approval is not a seal of ethics: an editorial on justice and respect in trial design Cory Goldstein, @streweek.bsky.social & Hossein Fatemian trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

What if I told you that the entire point of the COPs is, at root, to single out their key export

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...

WATCH: If you STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, watch this EXCELLENT video by @notjustbikes with @UrbanThree & @StrongTowns. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI

Dark Pr: come le grandi aziende ingannano e disinformano su alimentazione, riscaldamento globale e sicurezza stradale benzinazero.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/d... #pr #comunicazione #disinformazione #industria #alimentazione #automobile #riscaldamentoglobale

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

Science can create more accurate and effective tools, but if it costs too much to make them, you'll either have to settle for less effective ones, sacrifice other things you care about, or find ways to raise more money than you currently have.

Fantastic video from Shawn Grows: This film traces how humanity’s craving for sweetness reshaped the world. From ancient India’s first crystallized sugar to the rise of Caribbean plantations & the birth of global empires, sugar transformed from a rare luxury into an addiction that fueled revolution.

The book Dark PR includes reporting on the modern sugar economy (among other corporate crimes). Highly recommended.

CALIFORNIA! This is BIG if true @buffywicks.bsky.social! As @scottford.bsky.social & I championed in our “Downtown Sacramento Livability Strategy,” the way Cali (and OTHER states) does liability/construction deficiencies is a HUGE barrier to building apartments! Read: indd.adobe.com/view/54b2070...

At a minimum, please wear a mask in airports/on airplanes and in healthcare settings. That virtually no one does is depressing & distressing. #COVID