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Mark Fiore

@markfiore.bsky.social
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Cartoonist, visual journalist, fascism-chronicler, new technology-builder & Substacker: markfiore.substack.com Location: Western Edge of Land closest to the Eastern Pacific Theater

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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 16h
And along the way, let's stop giving humans making bad decisions cover by blaming AI, robots & mystical black boxes.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 17h
To bring in the Halloween season, we had 2 live bats in our house over the weekend. Note: when a bat flies around & around a ceiling fan, it looks amazing.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I love the way you write
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's your reminder that border czar Tom Homan, who is terrorizing hard-working immigrants, took $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting. The Trump regime killed the probe, and there’s no indication that Homan paid the money back to the taxpayers – or even paid taxes on the "income."
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Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.
The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Love how you're thinking.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More here! markfiore.substack.com/p/crazy-arch...
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Crazy arch villain
🫪Everything is perfectly normal
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Insane man with a statuary/military fetish at least makes things fun for cartoonists.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How many times has this guy practiced that line in front of his makeup mirror? Apparently not enough.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And of course here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More here: markfiore.substack.com/p/police-sta...
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Police state rising
🤯5,000 more ICE agents on the way...
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Buried deep in today’s NYT story about the Trump admin hiring 5,000 new ICE agents is the point that 7,500(!) of the previous 8,000 hires have yet to undergo background checks.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Love that Zuckerberg has to literally stand behind Trump as he rants about Biden, Democrats & what a wonderful job ICE is doing. Great look for business, Zuck!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump administration very much staying on-brand with Brand.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent enterprise journalism here, keep it up! (At least until they install the Nothing-About-Trump filters.)
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burying the lede: "Nearly 7,500 people are still waiting for the extensive background checks required for their positions, with an ability to work on a limited basis in the meantime..." So, 5,000 unchecked hires to add to the previous 7,500 unchecked hires, right? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026
NEW: Emergency motion asks First Circuit if its decision overturning DHS's third-country removal policy is effective immediately or not. They cite my reporting, and reveal tomorrow's ICE flight to make TCR stops in Central African Republic, Rwanda and Burundi. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72347...
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Motion (other) – #00108513219 in D.V.D. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (1st Cir., 26-1212) – CourtListener.com
EMERGENCY MOTION to Clarify the Effectiveness of this Court's Decision or, In the Alternative, Confirm the Stay is Lifted or Issue the Mandate filed by Appellees D.V.D., E.F.D., M.M. and O.C.G.. Serve...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Calling @tedlasso.bsky.social. Now would be a great time to speak out.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I try not to swear here but, fuck these guys. A few years ago when my family was on Obamacare, my income turned out to be more than expected, thereby reducing my subsidy, which I repaid (painfully) at tax time. According to these assholes, I'm a fraudster. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/h...
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Trump Officials Eject 750,000 From Obamacare Markets, Claiming Fraud (Gift Article)
Vice President JD Vance said the measure would save the government $2.2 billion.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have yet to receive one Telex from the government, please advise.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Social media coupled with human political/capitalist ingenuity/deviousness, that is.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Social media never fails to lower the bar & undermine democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content
Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Congratulations!!
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
And mustn't forget the HHS Doeth Witches Float Task Force, to be announced on the morrow.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And runner-up in the Understatement of the Year Award goes to . . . “This is not Mr. Trump’s first brush with Russian controversy.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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Russian Businessman With Putin Ties Paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Party (Gift Article)
The payments, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, represented an extraordinary flouting of ethical norms for an American president’s family member.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Never forget what didn’t happen
🇺🇸Trump’s September 11th fantasyland 🙄
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#NeverForget🇺🇸
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Thank you so much for doing this. This is infuriating. And is yet another, "holy shit, they're racist" moment.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/09/2026
I'm sure people trying to use Anthropic's models to potentially create bio weapons is all marketing. /s www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Anthropic Says It Blocked Possible Efforts to Build Biological Weapons
In a new report, the A.I. start-up added that it could not determine if the research was legitimate or nefarious, leading the company to shut down the work.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A Beautiful Nevermind... www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...
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The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem (Gift Article)
Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well this is effin’ nuts. The @baltimoresun.bsky.social thought it was a good idea to run awful AI slop "cartoons" instead of @kaltoons.bsky.social (who is a human). I wrote a post over at SFAI.agency. lnkd.in/p/gF2FUBya
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The Baltimore Sun dumped award-winning editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kallaugher and replaced him with AI slop. Here's why that's exactly backwards: https://lnkd.in/gF9j_u4m | SFAI.agency
The Baltimore Sun dumped award-winning editorial cartoonist, Kevin Kallaugher and replaced him with AI slop. Here's why that's exactly backwards: https://lnkd.in/gF9j_u4m
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Um, really NYT? Might want to adjust the placement here.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I will never forgive those imaginary firemen.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 08/09/2026
They published this the same day they published the news that Mamdani's office is releasing to the public thousands of documents showing Giuliani's office knew how toxic the air was around Ground Zero and lied about it, leading to more deaths than on 9/11.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why is 25th Amendment not trending on every social media & news streaming channel this weekend?
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Assume this is where the military will observe protestors as they fire down at them?
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When you want to build something ridiculous & illegal, just add the word "military" and presto! "Military Complex" for a ballroom "Military Observation Deck" for a masturbatory arch
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Another example of me thinking, "these can't possibly be real photos!" So nuts: www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-rust-...
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Shameful State of Trump's Warship Is Finally Revealed
The USS Abraham Lincoln is at port after 286 days at sea.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great idea! Wanting to climb El Capitan without ropes shows real initiative! My research shows that chewing gum can serve as an excellent adhesive when ascending a granite face. Would you like me to make a spreadsheet of other adhesives that will work before you set off on your adventure?
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This shouldn't need to happen. But bravo to this lady who figured out how to make sure detainee kids have enough to eat: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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She’s feeding hundreds of kids in ICE detention using commissary accounts
Casey Revkin gives money to hundreds of families at a Texas family detention facility so that they can buy food their children will eat.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My thoughts: markfiore.substack.com/p/if-by-amer...
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If by ‘America’ you mean ‘Trump’
🤬Google Maps bends the knee again...
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This was supposed to be satire, you f-ing madman!! www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Trump suggests renaming strait of Hormuz ‘Trump strait’ as Iran accuses US of war crime over wedding strike – Middle East crisis live
President claims move could come as it is ‘under USA control’
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Doesn't money give you power? I'm so confused.
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If being a $4.6 TRILLION company doesn't buy you any spine or independence, what does?
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hello, @mapquest.com!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/09/2026
This has been happening since May of 2025, glad to see some other news outlets getting around to discovering this
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Mark Fiore @markfiore.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This video is stomach turning for multiple reasons, mainly: it shows the worker-free mechanized rape & destruction of our nation's forests. See for yourself: this isn't about jobs, it's about big corporations w/ enough cash to finance factories without workers, so the corporations can get more cash.
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