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
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
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Last week ICE used the parking lots of the Powderhorn & Lake St post offices as staging grounds for their operations in South Minneapolis.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
December 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Last week ICE used the parking lots of the Powderhorn & Lake St post offices as staging grounds for their operations in South Minneapolis.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
Support postal workers and join us at a rally on Sunday, 12/14, at 11am at the Lake St office, followed by a march to the Powderhorn office.
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FYI: If you have news tips regarding ICE activity in the Twin Cities, especially if you have friends or relatives who have been detained, please contact me securely on Signal.
December 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
FYI: If you have news tips regarding ICE activity in the Twin Cities, especially if you have friends or relatives who have been detained, please contact me securely on Signal.
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Second verse same as the first
Freudian slip from Tom Cotton: "I think President Bush has every power under the Constitution to strike boats in international waters"
December 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Second verse same as the first
If you are not a member of the targeted groups, it’d be super cool if you could make some time to observe ICE and respond to abductions and raids if DHS is operating in your area. Check on your neighbors and places of worship if you got time too. It’s very important we document these crimes.
“It’s a crime to be a Latino right now in New Orleans,” he said. “I can be arrested just because of my face.”
In New Orleans, a sanctuary city's policies are being tested in a state that supports immigration enforcement
Louisiana’s top officials welcome federal immigration enforcement efforts, even as officials in the state’s largest city have expressed an unwillingness to aid them.
www.nbcnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you are not a member of the targeted groups, it’d be super cool if you could make some time to observe ICE and respond to abductions and raids if DHS is operating in your area. Check on your neighbors and places of worship if you got time too. It’s very important we document these crimes.
Ice agents drew weapons on an observer in Richfield today and threatened to arrest them for impeding. Richfield cops told them that if the observer followed them for more than three blocks, ICE could arrest them.
If you’re are tracking ICE in the Twin Cities. Be careful. DHS agents are agro dipshits and get super scared when they don’t understand why someone wouldn’t want them to abduct people.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ice agents drew weapons on an observer in Richfield today and threatened to arrest them for impeding. Richfield cops told them that if the observer followed them for more than three blocks, ICE could arrest them.
If you’re are tracking ICE in the Twin Cities. Be careful. DHS agents are agro dipshits and get super scared when they don’t understand why someone wouldn’t want them to abduct people.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you’re are tracking ICE in the Twin Cities. Be careful. DHS agents are agro dipshits and get super scared when they don’t understand why someone wouldn’t want them to abduct people.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
They are loose cannons is what I’m saying.
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slop machine goes brrrrrr
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
slop machine goes brrrrrr
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*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
*youth pastor voice*
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities
Until cops start arresting DHS agents for the various crimes they’re committing, nothing local cops have to say about what’s happening across the country really matters, does it?
Actually fed forces are minimal and lightly armed. What the fuck are are they gonna do?
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Actually fed forces are minimal and lightly armed. What the fuck are are they gonna do?
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Until cops start arresting DHS agents for the various crimes they’re committing, nothing local cops have to say about what’s happening across the country really matters, does it?
Actually fed forces are minimal and lightly armed. What the fuck are are they gonna do?
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Actually fed forces are minimal and lightly armed. What the fuck are are they gonna do?
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
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As Federal agents terrorize our communities, we stand with our Somali and immigrant neighbors!
Nonviolent Direct Action Training this Sunday 12/7 at 1:30PM buff.ly/rY4LPsv
Nonviolent Direct Action Training this Sunday 12/7 at 1:30PM buff.ly/rY4LPsv
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
As Federal agents terrorize our communities, we stand with our Somali and immigrant neighbors!
Nonviolent Direct Action Training this Sunday 12/7 at 1:30PM buff.ly/rY4LPsv
Nonviolent Direct Action Training this Sunday 12/7 at 1:30PM buff.ly/rY4LPsv
These people are such stupid dorks.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
These people are such stupid dorks.
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Demand elected leaders to protect our neighbors! The increase of federal activity in the Twin Cities is unacceptable, and we stand with ALL our neighbors regardless of immigration status.
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Demand elected leaders to protect our neighbors! The increase of federal activity in the Twin Cities is unacceptable, and we stand with ALL our neighbors regardless of immigration status.
ICE agents abducted a father in front of the Richfield Best Buy building and just left his kids in the minivan. Richfield cops took them inside a nearby restaurant to wait for the kid’s family to pick them up. Not entirely sure if RPD was working with ICE or not but a shit situation either way.
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
ICE agents abducted a father in front of the Richfield Best Buy building and just left his kids in the minivan. Richfield cops took them inside a nearby restaurant to wait for the kid’s family to pick them up. Not entirely sure if RPD was working with ICE or not but a shit situation either way.
This is worth a read.
Civil liberties advocates have decried the case against him as “guilt by literature.”
“I’m Not Fleeing” — Alleged Antifa Cell Member Says He Was Accidentally Released From Jail
In an interview, Daniel Sanchez Estrada speaks about his arrest for transporting anarchist zines after a protest against ICE in Texas.
interc.pt
December 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This is worth a read.
Good story here from Jon here at MPR.
My heart is so full that so many people are standing up to these weird ass ICE dorks.
My heart is so full that so many people are standing up to these weird ass ICE dorks.
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google
December 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Good story here from Jon here at MPR.
My heart is so full that so many people are standing up to these weird ass ICE dorks.
My heart is so full that so many people are standing up to these weird ass ICE dorks.
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ICE has been in our cities all week and there will be a deportation flight at ~12:20pm. As usual, it'll land at Signature Aviation. Detainees will be shackled in the cold, then flown off to Louisiana. News crews will be there. Join if you can.
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ICE has been in our cities all week and there will be a deportation flight at ~12:20pm. As usual, it'll land at Signature Aviation. Detainees will be shackled in the cold, then flown off to Louisiana. News crews will be there. Join if you can.
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
Track flight here: www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
You can report illegal ICE activity in Minnesota to the ACLU at the link below. This includes arresting citizens, violence or racial profiling. intake.aclu-mn.org
ACLU Complaint Form
intake.aclu-mn.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
You can report illegal ICE activity in Minnesota to the ACLU at the link below. This includes arresting citizens, violence or racial profiling. intake.aclu-mn.org
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Munitions like tear gas and pepper spray are often called "less lethal" methods of crowd control, but they can do serious, lasting damage. Here's what to know.
How pepper spray and tear gas used by law enforcement impact human health
Dr. Rohini Haar is a California-based emergency physician and human rights expert who has studied the health effects of less-lethal methods.
www.mprnews.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Munitions like tear gas and pepper spray are often called "less lethal" methods of crowd control, but they can do serious, lasting damage. Here's what to know.
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Hey can you do us a favor? Repost this and help your neighbors find the Roseville Reader.
We're here to help Roseville residents feel more connected to each other and know what's going on in city government, school board, and community life.
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#RosevilleMN
We're here to help Roseville residents feel more connected to each other and know what's going on in city government, school board, and community life.
www.rosevillereader.com
#RosevilleMN
The Roseville Reader
Independent, local news for Roseville, MN reporting on city council, school board, and community life.
www.rosevillereader.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hey can you do us a favor? Repost this and help your neighbors find the Roseville Reader.
We're here to help Roseville residents feel more connected to each other and know what's going on in city government, school board, and community life.
www.rosevillereader.com
#RosevilleMN
We're here to help Roseville residents feel more connected to each other and know what's going on in city government, school board, and community life.
www.rosevillereader.com
#RosevilleMN
The summary of this press conference is that local cops will continue to provide security for DHS in the Twin Cities.
Literally everything said during it is nonsense because they aren’t going to stop masked men abducting our neighbors but they will stop you if they think you’re too angry about it.
Literally everything said during it is nonsense because they aren’t going to stop masked men abducting our neighbors but they will stop you if they think you’re too angry about it.
Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara notes the MPD will not work with federal agents & says "In moments like this, I know how real the fear is in our community. People are going to want to speak out, protest, & exercise their 1st Amendment rights. We will absolutely defend people's right to do just that"
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The summary of this press conference is that local cops will continue to provide security for DHS in the Twin Cities.
Literally everything said during it is nonsense because they aren’t going to stop masked men abducting our neighbors but they will stop you if they think you’re too angry about it.
Literally everything said during it is nonsense because they aren’t going to stop masked men abducting our neighbors but they will stop you if they think you’re too angry about it.
The little press conference of Twin Cities leaders addressing ICE concerns basically confirmed they will continue to provide security for DHS abductions if people get too upset over them.
Here’s a little lesson about police in a police state. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-polic...
Here’s a little lesson about police in a police state. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-polic...
German Police in the Nazi State
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The little press conference of Twin Cities leaders addressing ICE concerns basically confirmed they will continue to provide security for DHS abductions if people get too upset over them.
Here’s a little lesson about police in a police state. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-polic...
Here’s a little lesson about police in a police state. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-polic...
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Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
December 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/
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Always framing news of resistance around number of arrests and police violence is demoralizing and low key doing the police work for them
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Always framing news of resistance around number of arrests and police violence is demoralizing and low key doing the police work for them