Mark Wasson
@reportermark.bsky.social
Twin Cities reporter somewhere between Jesus and Huey P. Newton.
I don’t argue with people John Brown would have shot.
"You can't control bigfoot or aliens, so you can't control me either." - Jose Canseco
I don’t argue with people John Brown would have shot.
"You can't control bigfoot or aliens, so you can't control me either." - Jose Canseco
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Libertarians continuing to prove that they’re just Republicans who like weed and have an encyclopedic knowledge of age of consent laws.
January 24, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Libertarians continuing to prove that they’re just Republicans who like weed and have an encyclopedic knowledge of age of consent laws.
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Federal agents cosplaying in military uniforms murdered a man today who reportedly dedicated his life to saving critically ill Veterans. This cannot stand - we demand action.
January 24, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Federal agents cosplaying in military uniforms murdered a man today who reportedly dedicated his life to saving critically ill Veterans. This cannot stand - we demand action.
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they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
January 24, 2026 at 7:48 PM
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
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If the cops can kill you for legally carrying a gun, it is not legal to carry the gun.
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 7:17 PM
If the cops can kill you for legally carrying a gun, it is not legal to carry the gun.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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NOW: At 32nd and 15th in South Minneapolis. federal agents smash up their car, leaving the car there while hopping in another vehicle, per bystanders. Reports of a person taken as well.
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 7:41 PM
NOW: At 32nd and 15th in South Minneapolis. federal agents smash up their car, leaving the car there while hopping in another vehicle, per bystanders. Reports of a person taken as well.
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
Minneapolis January 23, 2026
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President Trump's federal agents have been carrying out a brutal retribution campaign in Minnesota that’s violating the most basic freedoms of the United States minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/23/8...
8 weeks under siege in Minnesota • Minnesota Reformer
Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that ...
minnesotareformer.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:46 PM
President Trump's federal agents have been carrying out a brutal retribution campaign in Minnesota that’s violating the most basic freedoms of the United States minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/23/8...
So I’m out in Minneapolis for the big protest and a Wells Fargo security guard came out and told people not to loiter in the skyway because it’s private property and it’s like…bro people are fighting federal agents across the metro, is today really the day to be doing this shit?
January 23, 2026 at 7:38 PM
So I’m out in Minneapolis for the big protest and a Wells Fargo security guard came out and told people not to loiter in the skyway because it’s private property and it’s like…bro people are fighting federal agents across the metro, is today really the day to be doing this shit?
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Here is the Hennepin County list of warming options and spaces in the severe cold, please share widely.
www.hennepin.us/staywarm
www.hennepin.us/staywarm
Severe cold warming options
Learn about places to go in a cold-weather emergency.
www.hennepin.us
January 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Here is the Hennepin County list of warming options and spaces in the severe cold, please share widely.
www.hennepin.us/staywarm
www.hennepin.us/staywarm
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And this is why I don’t give a shit that NPR’s funding was pulled. They’ve been doing this shit for years.
Love hearing an NPR reporter repeat Vought's line about "unconstitutional DEI principles" with nary a query about what the fuck that actually means. At some point we need journalists to make this administration explain some of these batshit utterances.
January 23, 2026 at 1:12 AM
And this is why I don’t give a shit that NPR’s funding was pulled. They’ve been doing this shit for years.
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.
Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket
A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota
racketmn.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 PM
still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.
Here’s a little compilation video I made of the fed violence I documented while at the Bishop Henry Whipple building, which is ICE HQ in Minnesota, over the course of several days.
January 22, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Here’s a little compilation video I made of the fed violence I documented while at the Bishop Henry Whipple building, which is ICE HQ in Minnesota, over the course of several days.
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An important piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social — "The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
An important piece from @radleybalko.bsky.social — "The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
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commissioner jason garcia asks for the minneapolis parks and recreation board buildings be closed on friday jan 23 to observe the ICE out strike happening in minnesota. describes what has been happening in parks, including tear gas deployed by mueller park today
@jason4parks.bsky.social
@jason4parks.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
commissioner jason garcia asks for the minneapolis parks and recreation board buildings be closed on friday jan 23 to observe the ICE out strike happening in minnesota. describes what has been happening in parks, including tear gas deployed by mueller park today
@jason4parks.bsky.social
@jason4parks.bsky.social
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They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
They are trying to whip people into a frenzy, in the hopes that someone will do something violent, or we’ll riot, and give them an excuse. It’s not a coincidence that JD Vance is coming tomorrow. Again, every journalist on the ground knows this, but we’ll see if their editors will let them say it.
Glad Dems think we’re still in the sending letters phase of this.
Anyway. Buy a gun. Here are some cheaper options. www.cabelas.com/l/used-guns#...
Anyway. Buy a gun. Here are some cheaper options. www.cabelas.com/l/used-guns#...
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Glad Dems think we’re still in the sending letters phase of this.
Anyway. Buy a gun. Here are some cheaper options. www.cabelas.com/l/used-guns#...
Anyway. Buy a gun. Here are some cheaper options. www.cabelas.com/l/used-guns#...
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It’s amazing the full force of the federal gov’t law enforcement apparatus is being deployed to Minnesota because the cruel dipshits in charge refuse to believe that white folks are willingly putting their lives on the line to protect their neighbors. They think there must be a nefarious reason.
January 21, 2026 at 10:32 PM
It’s amazing the full force of the federal gov’t law enforcement apparatus is being deployed to Minnesota because the cruel dipshits in charge refuse to believe that white folks are willingly putting their lives on the line to protect their neighbors. They think there must be a nefarious reason.
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U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 21, 2026 at 11:57 PM
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
Video by Ben Luhmann.
January 22, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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After gassing a crowd, federal agents left a rifle magazine behind at Mueller Park. Crowd standing by, calling 911 for police to come retrieve it.
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
After gassing a crowd, federal agents left a rifle magazine behind at Mueller Park. Crowd standing by, calling 911 for police to come retrieve it.