michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Waze has taken the coward’s way out by refusing to correctly label Lake Ontario as “Lake Ontario.” It is choosing to leave this major geographic feature unlabeled. I’ve deleted Waze, Apple and Google Maps. Mapquest is the way to go for now. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Share and remember: your vote really does matter. Trump and MAGA can only stay in power if we let them. Not voting (or voting for a third party candidate) is not really a protest — it is giving power to those undermining our communities, our rights, and our (admittedly far from perfect) democracy. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Something to keep in mind. You may think a dictator is on your side, but the cruelty, destructiveness and corruption they direct against others will eventually be turned in your direction. That’s just the reality of how dictatorships work. 011
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“Why does wanting clean drinking water make you an activist, while poisoning it doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist?” 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 12/07/2026“Tyranny is the fruit of hate. Tyrants typically make no demands on themselves. They just demand from others and impose upon others.” 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 10/07/2026“Trying to placate a tyrant who does not hesitate to murder his own people has never worked. Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin were evil tyrants at heart, power-hungry and opportunists. Tyrants of the 21st century are also incorrigible and not redeemable.” 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The difference between healthy patriotism and toxic nationalism. 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A real downside of being registered with the Social Security Admin is that I have to put up with misinformation and disinformation from this regime in my email about how they’re “making life more affordable for America’s seniors.” What a bunch of crap. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026These are some of the same things I think about Christian Nationalism: ‘“Gospel” not the same. “God” not the same…” “Every single load bearing word in Christianity has been gutted and restuffed with something else. But they let the label” 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026We ask the same thing about the Trump admin and the GOP: “How many times will legacy media coverage enable Trump’s and the GOP’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our communities?” 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 04/04/2026The “One Book, One Coast” selection for April 2026 is George Takei’s excellent autobiographical graphic novel They Called Us Enemy You are invited to get hold of a copy (may I suggest looking at your public library) and read along. If you’ve already read it, go ahead and read it again! 100
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026A Holocaust survivor’s observation: #booksky 050
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The corporate world is built on the admiration of traits that, in ordinary life, are considered borderline psychopathy 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The inability or unwillingness of so many to take seriously the issue and impacts of changing climates is probably cultural, but it may also have evolutionary roots 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026From No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada #booksky 020
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Fromm’s book The Art of Loving was banned in South Korea under its military dictatorship. It “argues love is an art requiring knowledge, care, responsibility, and respect, not just a feeling…a skill developed through maturity and discipline, not a passive experience one simply "falls into". 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 27/03/2026From No Rules Tonight by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada The story is set in the 1980s during the time of the military dictatorship that oppressed and murdered the people of South Korea. 091
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026“Atrocities are atrocities no matter what” From Remember My Story by Claire Sarnowski and Sarah Durand 100
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 24/03/2026On authoritarian regimes and the suppression of accurate historical knowledge and understanding Quoted in Remember My Story by Claire Sarnowski and Sarah Durango #booksky 021
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026From Remember My Story: “Hate starts small, then it spreads until the whole forest is destroyed.” 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 19/03/2026From the book Remember My Story. Holocaust survivor Alter Weiner tells us why it’s important to be honest about to learn about the Holocaust and other genocides, even at a young age. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I’m pleased that Oregon passed a law requiring that students be educated about the Holocaust and other genocides. Understanding and being honest about the depths of human depravity and cruelty is, I think, important for helping people develop a good moral core. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 15/03/2026A good graphic novel that reminds us of the South Korean people’s struggle against an authoritarian regime in the 1980s and how they rose together to overcome it. 001
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 01/03/2026From Tolkien’s The Return of the King Bullies and criminals trying to dominate and oppress others to satisfy their greed for money and power has been a problem for a long time. The hobbits discuss a solution when they return home to find that there are those trying to do this in their community. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 19/01/2026From A Thousand Days in Tuscany by Marina de Blasi. The wealthy always follow the same patterns and find ways to exploit and oppress the 99%. 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 11/12/2025I 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) 020
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?…It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrongdoer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can, ” Black Beauty Anna Sewell 020
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way. And that is as true for us cabmen as it is for the church-goers.” Black Beauty Anna Sewell 031
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025“…you'll never be a rich man." "…I have heard the commandments…and I never noticed that any of them said, 'Thou shalt be rich'; and there are a good many curious things said in the New Testament about rich men that would make me feel rather queer if I was one of them.” Black Beauty Anna Sewell 000
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 29/11/2025 “…you did right, my boy, whether the fellow gets a summons or not. Many folks would have ridden by and said it was not their business to interfere. Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right, my boy.” Black Beauty Anna Sewell 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The elections give us hope. America does not side with dictators and will not willingly submit. But: the regime will not step aside or change course just because they’re unpopular. That’s not the way dictatorships work. It will double down on cruelty. We must keep on and say “NO!” every way we can. 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 19/10/2025So far, an interesting book about an important idea and a city that made it central to its culture. 010
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 07/10/2025We are free to use and share this image to publicize and promote the Oct 18, 2025 NO KINGS national gatherings that will take place all across the U.S. 020
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 20/09/2025A reminder that all the choices and variety you think you have — is illusory 020
michaelwhuff.bsky.social @michaelwhuff.bsky.social · 19/09/2025If you grew up with Disney and had feelings of fondness and affection for it, but now feel that it has let you — and America — down, consider writing and mailing a physical letter to Disney to let them know. It may have more impact than a social media posting or email. #Disney 000