Mike Vendetti
mikevendetti.bsky.social
Mike Vendetti
@mikevendetti.bsky.social
#Audiobook narrator specializing in #shortstories in the public domain. Retired #auctioneer. #Retired #Army for #disability. Blue dot in Red county. www.mikevendetti.com #trueblue #liberal
And the prophet said: "Behold, he is as an envoy of corruption, a vessel bearing the plague, a parasite cleaving unto the body of the people, drawing strength from it and bringing sickness unto it."
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Republicans since Reagan have envisioned a Project 2025 America. Now that they have it, they aren't giving it up. Expect the shutdown to last and end badly.
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
True leadership, according to Sun Tzu, arises from moral rectitude and selflessness—concentrating power solely in the service of the mission and people. The leaders in that room other than Trump and his Secretary of War have these traits.
October 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts just lit up Farm Aid with their new protest anthem “Big Crime.”🔥

🎶“There’s big crime in DC at the White House…Got to get the fascists out…”
September 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Vote with your dollars.
September 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Charlie Kirk understood something crucial:
Young voters aren’t tuning into cable—they’re scrolling through TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.

If Democrats want to reach the next generation, they need to start mastering the platforms where ideas actually spread.
September 15, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Thanking God for sparing you in a natural disaster is a bit like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for murdering the family next door.
September 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The loss of local news is linked with increased government secrecy, according to a new study conducted by the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida.

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/0...
Lack of Local News Tied to Government Secrecy, New Report Says
The loss of local news is linked with increased government secrecy, according to a new study conducted by the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida.
localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
August 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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I don't think there's enough champagne in the world for when that day finally comes.
August 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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"Autumn Night" - my oil painting
August 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one.

Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant.

Many have speculated how he’d do it.

Now his gambit is clear.

DC was a test.

He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities.

This is not a drill.

Democracy is at defcon 1.
August 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
August 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
August 24, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Trump is compromised.
On Epstein.
And with Putin.
Almost every person I know outside the US finds this obvious.
Almost everything I've learned in behavioral psychology, supports this.
HIS behavior supports this, daily.
Occam's Razor supports this.

Trump IS compromised.
August 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Mortified that the leadership of... Europe... has to come here b/c we couldn't bother to hire a competent woman for the job & instead re-hired a child rapist insurrectionist felon who happens to be Putin's little lap bitch.

What Zelenskyy must sit through is now our eternal shame.

#SlavaUkraini 🌻
August 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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August 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The American Experiment became one of the truly greatest success stories in the history of Planet Earth.

We cannot allow it to be undone by grifters, ideologues, macho morons, and keystone kops - led by a madman.
August 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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I may be wrong …. and it’s fine.
But I do believe the pendulum is starting to swing the other way .
MAGA/GOP is freaking out about it .
July 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM