toad.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Mastodon server operated by David Troy, a tech pioneer and investigative journalist addressing threats to democracy. Thoughtful participation and discussion welcome.

Administered by:

Server stats:

234
active users

#truthtelling

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Continued thread

If you’re feeling the same way, if you’ve been questioning what’s real, what’s right, and what’s worth rebuilding, join us inside the Profit Without Oppression (PWO) community.

This is not just a learning space. It’s a doing space. A place for people ready to lead differently, live more fully, and divest from the lie that profit requires harm.

Link in Bio

Continued thread

"that politics failed and we wound up in the Civil War, from which we still haven’t recovered.… Being a Southerner informed me about what happens when a society closes the wagons around itself, when it doesn’t tolerate good journalism or prophecy in the pulpit or truth-telling in the classroom."


/3

Continued thread

Alterman quotes an interview Moyers did with Salon in 2003:

"I think my life, and certainly my career in journalism, have been informed by two things. One was being a Southerner. Whenever you learned about Southern life, you realize that when we drove the truth-tellers out of the pulpits, out of the editorial rooms and out of the classrooms—people who were telling the truth about slavery—"


/2

Eric Alterman offers a touching reminiscence of his friend journalist Bill Moyers, noting:

"This ordained Baptist minister from a little town called Marshall, Texas, somehow became, for most practical purposes, my rabbi."

Alterman asks where Moyers got the fortitude to stick to his difficult and solitary path when he was very much a voice crying in the wilderness, especially in his native South.


/1

newrepublic.com/article/197400

The New Republic · Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of ThemThe Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?

The #Israeli Plot to Extinguish the #Journalists Documenting #Genocide

By Neha Madhira, July 3, 2025

Ibrahim Abu Ghazaleh: “In Gaza, a camera is a threat. When you witness the truth, you become a target.”

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/07/03/is

Archived version:
archive.ph/FluyZ

The Intercept · The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting GenocideBy Neha Madhira

Inquiry finds #British committed #genocide on #IndigenousAustralians

by Lana Lam
BBC News

"British #colonists committed genocide against Australia's #Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found.

"The #YoorrookJusticeCommission found violence and disease reduced the local Indigenous population by three quarters in the 20 years after the state was colonised, in the early 1830s.

"Its report included 100 recommendations to 'redress' harm caused by '#invasion and #occupation' - though several of the authors disagreed with unspecified 'key findings'.

"The Commission was set up in 2021 as Australia's first formal '#TruthTelling' inquiry, and tasked with examining past and ongoing 'systemic injustices' suffered by the Indigenous people in the state."

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn413z

BBC NewsInquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous AustraliansIt is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.

LIVE, Dammit Bluesky Blog

#YESquotes: Redefining Realness/Janet Mock: “Telling our stories, 1st to ourselves & then to one another & the world, is a revolutionary act...that can be met w/ hostility, exclusion, & violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, & community" #Pride #TruthTelling bit.ly/3TihKI1

LINK: bsky.app/profile/livedammit.bs

---------
LIVEdammit is a mental health support site with stories, tools, free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables — for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong.

WEBSITE: LIVEdammit.com

This robot is not affiliated with LIVEdammit.
--------
#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #livedammit #suicide

Bluesky Social · LIVEdammit (@livedammit.bsky.social)#YESquotes: Redefining Realness/Janet Mock: “Telling our stories, 1st to ourselves & then to one another & the world, is a revolutionary act...that can be met w/ hostility, exclusion, & violence. It can also lead to love, understanding, transcendence, & community" #Pride #TruthTelling bit.ly/3TihKI1

A truth-telling exhibition
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience

"Our artwork and culture is somehow revered on the international stage and high enough for an exchange at that level, but yet, we're the most incarcerated people on the planet.”

"Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have more than doubled, and deaths in custody have continued to rise."

"It's a huge stain on this nation...White Australia's support is crucial."
>>
abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/bla
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #violence #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #biopolitics #necropolitics #TruthTelling #art

ABC News · Blak In-Justice exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art is 'a wake-up call'By Kate Mulqueen

Unfinished business

"A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business. From compensation for the Stolen Generations to Indigenous recognition, Australia must follow words with actions."

"There is unfinished business in this country, and there can be no excuses for not knowing or understanding. We need to change direction and remove the burden from the most vulnerable."

"In a land of home improvers surely the principle of fixing the foundations first if you want to really close the gaps is obvious."
>>
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

A First Nations Voice to Parliament. Australia’s Constitutional Referendum Explained
>>
verfassungsblog.de/a-first-nat
#FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousAustralians #recognition #Voice #Constitution #foundations #referendum #law #violence #Civics #education #Australia #TruthTelling

The Guardian · A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished businessBy Julianne Schultz

Yoorrook Justice Commission invites you to be part of the Walk for Truth from Portland to Parliament.

Everyone is invited to join when Yoorrook Deputy Chair Commissioner Travis Lovett, Kerrupmara Gunditjmara, walks from Portland, where colonisation began, to Parliament, where we can transform the future.

Starting on Sunday 25 May on GunditjmaraGunditjmara Country at Portland, the Walk will finish at Parliament House on Wednesday 18 June.

This powerful journey aims to bring everyone together to walk toward truth, celebrate the strength and resistance of Aboriginal people, and be proud to have the oldest living culture in the world as ours.

For more information:

yoorrookjusticecommission.org.

#Australia
#Naarm
#Yoorook
#Gunditjmara
#AboriginalLand
#AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBeAboriginalLand
#colonisation
#WalkForTruth
#TruthTelling
#aboriginalheritage

Yoorrook Justice CommissionWill you join us on the Walk for Truth? - Yoorrook Justice CommissionYoorrook Justice Commission invites you to be part of the Walk for Truth from Portland to Parliament. Everyone is invited to join when Yoorrook Deputy Chair Commissioner Travis Lovett, Kerrupmara Gunditjmara, walks from Portland, where colonisation began, to Parliament, where we can transform the future. Starting on Sunday 25 May on Gunditjmara Country at Portland, the Walk will finish at ... Read More

The #Grifters running #Amerikkka are calling public media a grift! Probably because they embrace DEI and aren't afraid to criticize the #Fascist administration! This will not only cripple or destroy #PublicTelevision stations, #CommunityRadio like #WMPG also receives money from the #CPB!!!

White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

By Jon Brodkin, April 15, 2025

Excerpt: "In a statement provided to Ars today, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that 'the effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people. There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress... Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis.' "

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind fundingBy Jon Brodkin

Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia

“This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
>>
theguardian.com/australia-news

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
>>
c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
#TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia

The Guardian · The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier warsBy Nick Evershed

A quotation from Horace

                                And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
 
[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/

WIST Quotations · Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, "Qui fit, Mæcenas," l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)] - Horace | WIST QuotationsAnd yet what harm can there be in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC? [Quamquam ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.] (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:…

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
>>
Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
lareviewofbooks.org/short-take
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Challenge of Loss | Los Angeles Review of Books

Imperial violence

"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."

The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
>>
press.princeton.edu/books/hard

Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
>>
history.yale.edu/people/lauren
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling

press.princeton.eduThey Called It PeaceA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires