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Mark Wasson

@reportermark.bsky.social

Twin Cities reporter somewhere between Jesus and Huey P. Newton. You can find me at a court house most days. "You can't control bigfoot or aliens, so you can't control me either." - Jose Canseco

148 Followers  |  172 Following  |  330 Posts  |  Joined: 07.08.2023  |  2.5105

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Today!!

15.11.2025 15:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

13.11.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6207    πŸ” 1193    πŸ’¬ 107    πŸ“Œ 70

Super cool that people voted for the fascist pedophile party for president last time around.

Good job everyone.

14.11.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stand with community and make your voice heard!

We need to stop Frey from literally releasing ARSENIC into Minneapolis. Send a letter urging Frey and other legislators to accept a deal by the 11/14 deadline: buff.ly/fAomZI4

13.11.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They should study journalists’ brains like they do with football players after they die.

13.11.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1275    πŸ” 158    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

The outcome of this will likely be what the outcome has been when the Trump regime has erroneously connected Hispanic people with Hispanic illegal drug businesses.

Which has been murder and torture.

13.11.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Exciting news!! 🌹🌹🌹

13.11.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Union Starbucks Baristas Launch Unfair Labor Practice Strike in 40+ Cities Nationwide!

TCDSA supports Starbucks workers fight for a fair compensation and treatment!

Red Cup rally today starting @ 4pm
3704 Silver Lake Rd NE, St Anthony
RSVP: aflcio.mn/47OXbcS

13.11.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey so β€œunderage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

12.11.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 18462    πŸ” 5028    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11
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β€œStarbucks Is on the Ropes,” Says SBWU President Lynne Fox, Who Is Eyeing a Strike "Investors should know that if Starbucks continues to stonewall and fight with union baristas, they aren’t afraid to do what it takes to win the fair contract that they’ve earned," Fox writes. "This i...

Starbucks workers across the country are on strike today. The reason is simple: after promising to bargain in good faith, Starbucks has stalled, stonewalled, and refused to negotiate a fair contract with union baristas.

inthesetimes.com/article/star...

13.11.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 148    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9
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When Reporting Is a Crime - Corinne Shanahan & Andrew Crespo - Inquest States have restricted, surveilled, and punished prison journalism for decades, with dire consequencesβ€”for incarcerated people and for democracy.

Must read: "Cloaked in secrecy, insulated from press scrutiny, and cut off from the rest of society, these places often conceal violence, harm, and deadly oppressionβ€”all inflicted in the name of, and funded by, a public generally left unsuspecting and unaware." inquest.org/when-reporti...

13.11.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.

β€œGoogle wanted to β€˜not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

13.11.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1498    πŸ” 941    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 104

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

13.11.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 14195    πŸ” 6947    πŸ’¬ 366    πŸ“Œ 373

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

12.11.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2173    πŸ” 460    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 3
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Join DSA. Become a member today. Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

Be like Taylor! Join DSA: go.dsausa.org/twincities

12.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Here’s hoping things unravel quickly for Trump, and the fascist movement fragments. Popular forces in the streets, particularly against ICE, could do a lot to push and consolidate mass opposition rn

13.11.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Text reading "TCDSA Election Stats, 50,000 doors knocked, - tripling our 2023 record! 1,389 door-knock & phonebank shifts, exceeding our goal of 1,000 shifts! $35,000 raised for our endorsed candidates! We held 63 door-knocks (including 20 BBQs!) and 38 phonebanks for a grand total of... 101 events this year!"

Text reading "TCDSA Election Stats, 50,000 doors knocked, - tripling our 2023 record! 1,389 door-knock & phonebank shifts, exceeding our goal of 1,000 shifts! $35,000 raised for our endorsed candidates! We held 63 door-knocks (including 20 BBQs!) and 38 phonebanks for a grand total of... 101 events this year!"

When Twin Cities DSA members voted to endorse @OmarFatehMN.com for mayor, we knew the task before us would be hard. Landlords, Wall Street developers & corporations like Lyft poured millions of dollars into this election to spread racist, Islamophobic lies to protect their profits.

12.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 52    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Those corporations are right to be afraid of the socialist movement we’re building. We knocked 50,000 doors and, in those convos, it’s clear the people of Minneapolis are fed up. We’re ready for a $20 minimum wage, an end to the rent hikes & ensuring MPD never again assists ICE.

12.11.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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my life in ward 7 has been 13 years of lisa goodman, 2 years of katie cashman, next up: 4 years of something worse than goodman: elizabeth shaffer

fuck it. i have no plans to leave this ward so i joined DSA lmao. RADICALIZED

12.11.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 235    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 6
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ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

12.11.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
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Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising Trump’s campaign to quell dissent by deploying the American military to U.S. cities comes at an immense price.

Trump’s Military Occupations of U.S. Cities Cost $473 Million and Rising
#FelonTrump
Spending your tax dollars to attack you.

theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

12.11.2025 03:10 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

New: a judge has ruled that Flock surveillance images are public records that can be requested by anyone. Shows that at least in some cases, police cannot withhold the data collected by its surveillance systems.

www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

12.11.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 221    πŸ” 67    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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Essential Equipment Fund CHCF’s Essential Equipment Fund helps Chicago-area journalists stay safe while reporting protests and public events. Apply and support today.

The Chicago Headline Club Foundation has launched the Essential Equipment Fund to help independent and freelance journalists buy gear like respirators and helmets.

headlineclub.org/2025/10/11/e...

11.11.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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IPG-Owned MPLS Apartment Properties Rack Up 104 Major Safety Violations, Leaves Residents in Disarray - UNICORN RIOT Minneapolis, MN β€” If a tenant comes knocking to pay rent, that’s usually a door worth opening. But when Mike Brown approached the office of property manager Tina Johnson, she didn’t answer. Instead, t...

Over a dozen tenants renting from IPG-owned Minneapoils apartment buildings have formed the IPG Group Tenant Union, citing persistent health and safety issues, unresponsive management, and what they call retaliatory behavior by management, their landlord.

unicornriot.ninja/2025/ipg-own...

09.11.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Graphic with November General Meeting with all info in the post description and/or RSVP link tcdsa.org/generalmeeting

Graphic with November General Meeting with all info in the post description and/or RSVP link tcdsa.org/generalmeeting

Join us for our November General Meeting! We'll have a report-back from our electoral committee, a presentation from our Socialist Feminist Branch, and a special election for our new Membership Coordinator position. Hope to see you there!🌹

09.11.2025 20:30 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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β€˜You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

09.11.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 832    πŸ” 518    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 59
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🚨UR has released 73 videos captured by 45 Minneapolis Police body-worn cameras from the mass arrest of over 646 people on Nov. 4, 2020. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers represented in this release have killed community members while on duty.

Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...

07.11.2025 23:52 β€” πŸ‘ 577    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 12
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Live updates: US flights cancelled as government shutdown leaves air traffic controllers unpaid Domestic air travel will be cut by up to 10% at 40 major airports, resulting in thousands of cancelled flights in the coming days.

Looks like the fascists can’t run the planes on time after all.

08.11.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Despite DHS agents tear gassing Chicago cops earlier this, Chicago PD still provides security for Trump’s paramilitary group. Weird how this keeps happening.

08.11.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For Roper to call Fateh or bulk of his supporters far left is to do ideological work. It’s lazy and unsurprising. Go talk to some Maoists and some anarchists.

What is the point of local reporting if the columnist is going to clumsily apply a US national politics frame to a local election?

08.11.2025 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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