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Mark Bertrand (Novelist)

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Mark Bertrand writes psychological thrillers about ordinary individuals trapped inside systems of law, judgment, and authority—systems that criminalize everyday life while claiming to preserve order. www.markbertrand.com

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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 18h
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Defund Wall Street
The stock market is not the economy. It’s a parasite feeding on it, and it’s time we stopped starving the host to keep the tick fat.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Algorithm Didn’t Fire Him—It Made His Life Unprofitable
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The Threshold
Billionaire Monster short story
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Make the wealthy fund the rebellion! youtube.com/shorts/YXBYz...
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Make The Wealthy Fund The Rebellion #music #remix #bass
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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The Billionaire Who Bought God
This article is in reference to the op-ed I wrote for The Progressive in August 2026: [Billionaire Monsters: Hierarchy, Engineered Inequality, Rebellion, and Institutional Violence
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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The Billionaire Who Bought God
This article is in reference to the op-ed I wrote for The Progressive in August 2026: [Billionaire Monsters: Hierarchy, Engineered Inequality, Rebellion, and Institutional Violence
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Voting Fraud The Billionaire Wins Either Way
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#AIdatacenterbacklash The Billionaire Monster Wins Every Election Democrats manage the system that creates billionaires. Republicans are turning those billionaires into the state. youtu.be/AWnff5GEjtI
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Voting Fraud The Billionaire Wins Either Way
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#AIdatacenterbacklash The Billionaire Monster Wins Every Election Democrats manage the system that creates billionaires. Republicans are turning those billionaires into the state. youtu.be/AWnff5GEjtI
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Voting Fraud The Billionaire Wins Either Way
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Stupid Wears His Face | Billionaire Monsters
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Respectable Monster — When Greed Builds the Machine | Mark Bertrand
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Respectable Monster — When Greed Builds the Machine | Mark Bertrand
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Stupid Wears His Face | Billionaire Monsters
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Laura Benton does not merely envy male power. She studies it, copies it, and helps build a world where admitting its source becomes forbidden. Read RECKONING: Which lyric exposes her most completely? youtu.be/D8YnW_ZGWtQ
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A Thousand Tearful Eyes
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Institutional Power Is Not Against AI Writers open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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Institutional Power Is Not Against AI Writers
It objects when the machine belongs to the writer.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Karma's Coming For You
When a Billionaire Can Publish Your Confession Before You Write It
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Men enter Misandry Arena knowing the audience has not come to see who wins. They have come to see who dies. “We Hate Men” inspired by the cage-fighting scene in my novel Starzel—a world where suffering has become entertainment and hatred has become a profitable public ritual. youtu.be/1d6Fat1NxLA
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WE HATE MEN — Starzel | Dystopian Thriller Song & Novel Trailer
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Men enter Misandry Arena knowing the audience has not come to see who wins. They have come to see who dies. “We Hate Men” inspired by the cage-fighting scene in my novel Starzel—a world where suffering has become entertainment and hatred has become a profitable public ritual. youtu.be/1d6Fat1NxLA
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WE HATE MEN — Starzel | Dystopian Thriller Song & Novel Trailer
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Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Some free sites for finding or promoting indie books. Please suggest more. #BookSky 💙📚 #BookPromotion www.selfpublishing360.com www.indiebookdirectory.com thebooklist.co/share/index thebookrex.com rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo...
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Self-Publishing 360 | Indie Author Community | Support for Self-Published Writers
Join our Indie Author Community to promote your book for free! Connect with self-published writers, get feedback, and master book marketing together.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Economic Rot of Captured Culture
Case #018
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Economic Rot of Captured Culture
Case #018
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Economic Rot of Captured Culture
Case #018
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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The Economic Rot of Captured Culture
Case #018
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The Reader’s Court: I share short thrillers where systems stand trial. You get the story first, then the autopsy—how power protects itself while staying “legal.” Case 012 The Brief Was Already Written | How Gun Industry Power Shapes Trials Before They Begin markbertrand.substack.com
The Reader’s Court Case 012 image featuring a child’s pink backpack, family photo, courtroom bench, and legal filings symbolizing how gun industry legal power shapes outcomes before trials begin.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The courts were never just rooms where justice was supposed to happen. They were the place power learned to make itself legal. The Reader’s Court Special Edition: The courts were taken. The Constitution gives us the weapon. World War Three is in the courts. youtu.be/X_ze75iAmHM?...
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The Courts Were Taken: A Reader’s Court Special Edition
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Broadcast Without Warning
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A young woman earned the future she was promised. Then Big Money, higher education, bought politicians, and captured courts made sure the human wound never reached the courtroom. Case 005 — The Scholarship In Chambers with The Reader’s Court open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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The Scholarship
Case 005
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A young woman earned the future she was promised. Then Big Money, higher education, bought politicians, and captured courts made sure the human wound never reached the courtroom. Case 005 — The Scholarship In Chambers with The Reader’s Court open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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The Scholarship
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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A Home That Was Almost Hers
CASE FILE #007
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A father did everything right. A daughter built something worth carrying into the world. The system didn’t care. Case 004 — The Flight That Was Not Authorized In Chambers is live. Some decisions don’t require explanation. open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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In Chambers | The Flight That Was Cancelled
The Readers Court Case 004
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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In Chamber with The Readers Court - YouTube
IN CHAMBERS witgh Mark Bertrand as the host takes a look behind the case from The Readers Court.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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The Account That Became Suspicious
Case 002
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
When something breaks—a job, a system, a life—who actually gets a second chance… and who never does?
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If a retired couple loses their home during a medical crisis because the tax lien system followed procedure perfectly… did the system fail or succeed? Response line for the post File 005: The Property Tax Trap. youtu.be/Ynpm3bBe5A8?...
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The Property Tax Trap, File 006
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
If a retired couple loses their home during a medical crisis because the tax lien system followed procedure perfectly… did the system fail or succeed? Response line for the post File 005: The Property Tax Trap. youtu.be/Ynpm3bBe5A8?...
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The Property Tax Trap, File 006
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If Red Sky Mourning worked for you because it understood what violence costs and how systems fail, I wrote this article for you. Snodgrass is combat, crime, survival, damage, and the making of a man. www.markbertrand.com/books-like-r... #BookSky #Thrillers #MilitaryThriller #PsychologicalThriller
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If Red Sky Mourning worked for you because it understood what violence costs and how systems fail, I wrote this article for you. Snodgrass is combat, crime, survival, damage, and the making of a man. www.markbertrand.com/books-like-r... #BookSky #Thrillers #MilitaryThriller #PsychologicalThriller
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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Coming Up
These are the upcoming READERS COURT cases and release dates.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Defend America. Harden America. Rebuild America. Do not make endless war the center of national life. We the people means a government that protects ordinary life first, breaks private domination second, and stops using war as a substitute for domestic strength.
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A government official testified under oath: “No funds were misused.” The numbers were correct. The language was correct. The intent wasn’t. Everything worked exactly as designed. youtu.be/qtwyTye6-HA
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He Lied Legally | IMD File 005
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There’s something unsettling about this one—in a good way. Not because of the flight itself, but because of how quietly it crosses the line. No alarms. No resistance. A system that allows something unauthorized to become… normalized. That’s the part that lingers. open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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The Flight That Was Not Authorized
CASE FILE #4
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
If an algorithm follows every rule perfectly… and decides a man isn’t worth saving… did the system fail— or succeed? A family was denied life-saving treatment because a model said the cost wasn’t justified. Everything worked exactly as designed. youtu.be/Ht3zvHylHb8
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The Algorithm Denied His Life | IMD Operations File 004
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The insurance company killed him. No crime was committed. open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
WHAT’S A CHILD’S LIFE WORTH? open.substack.com/pub/markbert...
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WHAT’S A CHILD’S LIFE WORTH?
A Special Edition Reader’s Court Case
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A man qualified for the mortgage. The algorithm said no. Moments later the same system approved a corporation buying 20 homes. Is that a bug… or the system working exactly as designed? The Loan Denial Algorithm | IMD Operations File 002 youtu.be/pX0IAg7G-UU?... via @YouTube
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The Loan Denial Algorithm | IMD Operations File 002
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Mark Bertrand (Novelist) @markbertrand.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
If a system follows the law perfectly but destroys a person’s life, did the system fail… or did it work exactly as designed? youtu.be/qoGpVBQTBVc #injustice #eattherich #booksky #endcitizensunited #talarico
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The Housing Auction IMD file 001
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