@michaelwhuff.bsky.social
Background in philosophy, theology and biology. Look for and support what's good, beautiful, true, and serves the common good (especially "the least of these"). Reject that which is self-serving and cruel. I enjoy cooking and learning about foods.
Reasons to dump Goodreads (Amazon) and begin using other book platforms
The Goodreads Problem 😤 | Why I'm Switching to StoryGraph (Amazon Doesn't Want You to Know This!) 📚
YouTube video by whatmichaelareads
youtube.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Reasons to dump Goodreads (Amazon) and begin using other book platforms
Thank you to Rick Steves for stepping in to keep a hygiene center in Lynnwood, WA, open.
“TV host and travel writer Rick
Steves bought the property…vowing to keep the space that provides free, warm showers and food and clothing, all via donations, open to mostly homeless people in the area.”
“TV host and travel writer Rick
Steves bought the property…vowing to keep the space that provides free, warm showers and food and clothing, all via donations, open to mostly homeless people in the area.”
Lynnwood Hygiene Center saved from closure after unexpected purchase by Rick Steves
The people behind the Lynnwood Hygiene Center are celebrating what they call a holiday miracle.
komonews.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Thank you to Rick Steves for stepping in to keep a hygiene center in Lynnwood, WA, open.
“TV host and travel writer Rick
Steves bought the property…vowing to keep the space that provides free, warm showers and food and clothing, all via donations, open to mostly homeless people in the area.”
“TV host and travel writer Rick
Steves bought the property…vowing to keep the space that provides free, warm showers and food and clothing, all via donations, open to mostly homeless people in the area.”
Some interesting thoughts from economic anthropologist Jason Hickel on how capitalism limits our potential to achieve and grow.
Michael Huff (@typomain3000)
How capitalism.limits what we can achieve.
substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Some interesting thoughts from economic anthropologist Jason Hickel on how capitalism limits our potential to achieve and grow.
The lies AI companies spread to try to sell communities and politicians on AI data centers
What Meta and OpenAI Don't Want You to Know
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:58 AM
The lies AI companies spread to try to sell communities and politicians on AI data centers
Tenants organizing to fight corporate slumlords
Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You to Know About This
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Tenants organizing to fight corporate slumlords
A reminder to hold tightly to —and speak clearly and loudly about — what’s good, true, beautiful and right. It’s always been important, but now it somehow feels more important than ever. Don’t let the liars, the deceivers, the gaslighters make you doubt yourself.
Jim Acosta (@jimacosta)
Aloha from Hawaii friends…one of the last inhabited places on earth to ring in the New Year.
In 2026… The Kennedy Center is still The Kennedy Center. The Gulf of Mexico is still the Gulf of Mexico. ...
substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
A reminder to hold tightly to —and speak clearly and loudly about — what’s good, true, beautiful and right. It’s always been important, but now it somehow feels more important than ever. Don’t let the liars, the deceivers, the gaslighters make you doubt yourself.
We shouldn’t let this go. Contact your elected representatives today.
Loser Mike Johnson hopes we forgot about extending ACA tax credits while he was on Christmas vacation.
Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Let’s make it very clear how wrong he is:
Tell Congress: Demand Speaker Johnson hold a vote IMMEDIATELY on the ACA tax credit extension
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
We shouldn’t let this go. Contact your elected representatives today.
Another example of the state of New Mexico doing it right and showing us what good and visionary leadership looks like.
Maia Duerr (@maiaduerr1)
Reason #245 that I’m grateful I live in New Mexico:
Just called the state health insurance exchange (BeWellNM) to see what my premium will be for 2026. I was bracing myself for the worst, given the w...
substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Another example of the state of New Mexico doing it right and showing us what good and visionary leadership looks like.
“Process legitimacy means the court followed proper procedures…follows its own precedents…applies law neutrally. Substantive legitimacy means the rulings are grounded in law and reason rather than desired outcomes. When both fail, the court is just issuing orders and calling them law.”
This Should Put At Least 3 Supreme Court Justices in Jail
When should you stop respecting a court's rulings?
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“Process legitimacy means the court followed proper procedures…follows its own precedents…applies law neutrally. Substantive legitimacy means the rulings are grounded in law and reason rather than desired outcomes. When both fail, the court is just issuing orders and calling them law.”
We had federally-funded universal childcare during WWII — and it seems to have worked well.
The state of New Mexico is to be praised for working institute universal childcare for its residents.
We need to try universal healthcare next.
The state of New Mexico is to be praised for working institute universal childcare for its residents.
We need to try universal healthcare next.
Christopher Armitage (@chrisarmitage1)
Soft Secession Policy: Lanham Act 2.0
The United States has already done universal childcare. We did it eighty years ago, it worked, and then Congress killed it.
During World War II, the federal gov...
substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We had federally-funded universal childcare during WWII — and it seems to have worked well.
The state of New Mexico is to be praised for working institute universal childcare for its residents.
We need to try universal healthcare next.
The state of New Mexico is to be praised for working institute universal childcare for its residents.
We need to try universal healthcare next.
Corporations are the real “welfare queens”
Mitzi Epstein (@mitziepstein916229)
In Arizona many large corporations pay only $50 in income tax because that is the minimum. They get so many loopholes that they do not pay for the benefits of public roads, public safety, and public e...
substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Corporations are the real “welfare queens”
“…democracy does not necessarily need to be outright banned; it can simply be buried in layers of procedural complexities. One does not have to physically prevent people from voting if one can make the act of voting more complex and burdensome than the challenge of their daily survival.”
Michael Huff (@typomain3000)
The nature of current GOP efforts to end government of, by and for the people in the U.S.:
“What the Georgia GOP has realized, in both a cynical and simplistic manner, is that democracy does not nece...
substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
“…democracy does not necessarily need to be outright banned; it can simply be buried in layers of procedural complexities. One does not have to physically prevent people from voting if one can make the act of voting more complex and burdensome than the challenge of their daily survival.”
The connection may not occur to many of us:
How “conservative” GOP policies at the state level are
driving local property taxes higher
as well as
bringing about the collapse of public school systems in states such as Ohio.
How “conservative” GOP policies at the state level are
driving local property taxes higher
as well as
bringing about the collapse of public school systems in states such as Ohio.
Crisis: When The Wheels Come Off a State’s Public School System
A Case Study of a Systemic Underfunding Crisis
open.substack.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The connection may not occur to many of us:
How “conservative” GOP policies at the state level are
driving local property taxes higher
as well as
bringing about the collapse of public school systems in states such as Ohio.
How “conservative” GOP policies at the state level are
driving local property taxes higher
as well as
bringing about the collapse of public school systems in states such as Ohio.
“…research…found…the more we depend on AI, the lower our critical thinking scores…But…People with strong…literacy skills maintained…critical thinking abilities even while using AI heavily. The protective factor…was knowing how to evaluate sources, verify claims, and maintain healthy skepticism.”
Why Everyone Needs to Think Like a Librarian Now
Your ChatGPT is confident, wrong, and waiting for you to ask better questions.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“…research…found…the more we depend on AI, the lower our critical thinking scores…But…People with strong…literacy skills maintained…critical thinking abilities even while using AI heavily. The protective factor…was knowing how to evaluate sources, verify claims, and maintain healthy skepticism.”
On the importance of teachers (not technology) to effective learning.
From
The Revenge of Analog, by David Sax
saxdavid.com/therevengeof...
From
The Revenge of Analog, by David Sax
saxdavid.com/therevengeof...
Michael Huff (@typomain3000)
On the importance of teachers (not technology) to effective learning.
From
The Revenge of Analog, by David Sax
https://saxdavid.com/therevengeofanalog
substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
On the importance of teachers (not technology) to effective learning.
From
The Revenge of Analog, by David Sax
saxdavid.com/therevengeof...
From
The Revenge of Analog, by David Sax
saxdavid.com/therevengeof...
Many large businesses are at stage 3 of this process that degrades our communities. Just talking about it is a part of the process of resisting and repairing the damage that companies like META, Amazon and Google are doing to us.
We need to take back ownership and control over our economic lives.
We need to take back ownership and control over our economic lives.
Why Is Everything on the Internet Getting Worse?
YouTube video by Jay Swanson
youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Many large businesses are at stage 3 of this process that degrades our communities. Just talking about it is a part of the process of resisting and repairing the damage that companies like META, Amazon and Google are doing to us.
We need to take back ownership and control over our economic lives.
We need to take back ownership and control over our economic lives.
8 Dem Senators agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Congress would consider acting to extend insurance subsidies.
In exchange for their complicity and lack of moral courage they got:
Absolutely nothing.
They need to be reminded of this every day.
In exchange for their complicity and lack of moral courage they got:
Absolutely nothing.
They need to be reminded of this every day.
Rosie the Resister (@rosietheresister)
In case you were hoping Congress would pull out a last-minute solution to the health care crisis, they’ve officially adjourned with nothing done. To be clear, it’s not like they were racing against a ...
substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
8 Dem Senators agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for a vague and unenforceable promise that Congress would consider acting to extend insurance subsidies.
In exchange for their complicity and lack of moral courage they got:
Absolutely nothing.
They need to be reminded of this every day.
In exchange for their complicity and lack of moral courage they got:
Absolutely nothing.
They need to be reminded of this every day.
If you care about public lands (the places many of us hike, camp, hunt and fish), and the more than $125 billion in revenue they generate annually, be aware that the GOP is working to take those places away from us and place them under private control and ownership.
Contact your elected reps today!
Contact your elected reps today!
More Than Just Parks (@morethanjustparks)
Republicans are fast tracking an unprecedented legal change that puts national parks directly at risk of sale.
An amendment moving through Congress this week removes language that keeps national park...
substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you care about public lands (the places many of us hike, camp, hunt and fish), and the more than $125 billion in revenue they generate annually, be aware that the GOP is working to take those places away from us and place them under private control and ownership.
Contact your elected reps today!
Contact your elected reps today!
On efforts to ban surveillance pricing schemes used by companies such as
Instacart
If you currently use services such as Instacart, be aware that you might not be paying the same price as other people - they may be charging you more for the same goods.
Instacart
If you currently use services such as Instacart, be aware that you might not be paying the same price as other people - they may be charging you more for the same goods.
Instacart is Using Algorithmic Pricing to Rip You Off. This Bill Could Stop Them.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtube.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
On efforts to ban surveillance pricing schemes used by companies such as
Instacart
If you currently use services such as Instacart, be aware that you might not be paying the same price as other people - they may be charging you more for the same goods.
Instacart
If you currently use services such as Instacart, be aware that you might not be paying the same price as other people - they may be charging you more for the same goods.
50% off is a good deal.
But you save even more money by deciding not to buy it in the first place.
Sometimes the best way to double your money is to fold it over and stick it back in your pocket.
But you save even more money by deciding not to buy it in the first place.
Sometimes the best way to double your money is to fold it over and stick it back in your pocket.
20+ Micro-Habits for Your No-Buy Year in 2026 | minimalism + saving money
YouTube video by A to Zen Life
youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
50% off is a good deal.
But you save even more money by deciding not to buy it in the first place.
Sometimes the best way to double your money is to fold it over and stick it back in your pocket.
But you save even more money by deciding not to buy it in the first place.
Sometimes the best way to double your money is to fold it over and stick it back in your pocket.
I hope for a day when the GOP is such a tiny party that its candidates can’t even get on the ballot because it has so few registered voters (let alone actually win an election)
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I hope for a day when the GOP is such a tiny party that its candidates can’t even get on the ballot because it has so few registered voters (let alone actually win an election)
This seems about right.
Greenthumbgardner (@greenthumbgardener)
substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
This seems about right.
The things you have used to be money.
The money you spent used be time.
Time that you’ll never get back.
Are those things you have worth the time out of your life you had to spend to buy them?
The money you spent used be time.
Time that you’ll never get back.
Are those things you have worth the time out of your life you had to spend to buy them?
15 Things That Happened When I Stopped Spending Money // frugal living + minimalism
YouTube video by A to Zen Life
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The things you have used to be money.
The money you spent used be time.
Time that you’ll never get back.
Are those things you have worth the time out of your life you had to spend to buy them?
The money you spent used be time.
Time that you’ll never get back.
Are those things you have worth the time out of your life you had to spend to buy them?
“The idea that ALL people are made in God’s image and deserving of love is a core commitment in Christianity. Regardless of our theological or ideological beliefs, all Jesus-followers should be united in this commitment.”
— Zach W. Lambert (on Substack)
— Zach W. Lambert (on Substack)
Zach W. Lambert (@zachwlambert)
I posted this on Twitter recently and got literally *hundreds* of comments/DMs from self-professed Christians claiming that we should absolutely be dehumanizing people we don’t like.
I was called eve...
substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“The idea that ALL people are made in God’s image and deserving of love is a core commitment in Christianity. Regardless of our theological or ideological beliefs, all Jesus-followers should be united in this commitment.”
— Zach W. Lambert (on Substack)
— Zach W. Lambert (on Substack)