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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The author of the new book, "No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine," discusses how U.S. labor unions have played a key role in building and maintaining the state of Israel.
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#Palestine #Israel
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The ongoing battle over Israel within the U.S. labor movement
The author of the new book, “No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine,” discusses how U.S. labor unions have played a key role in building and maintaining the state of...
mondoweiss.net
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The author of the new book, "No Neutrals There: U.S. Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine," discusses how U.S. labor unions have played a key role in building and maintaining the state of Israel.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-...
#Palestine #Israel
I feel attacked.
There’s a genre of older man who comes into the bar at like 2pm and is like “man where is everybody?”
“My man, it’s 2pm, not everyone is a lonely alcoholic”
“My man, it’s 2pm, not everyone is a lonely alcoholic”
November 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I feel attacked.
Anyone who has ever dealt with DFLers understands how fucking weird some of them are about basic reporting, freedom of speech and anything that might be slightly critical of the politician they are currently in love with.
Real dork behavior.
Real dork behavior.
richard g arguing against DFL constitution. he's a member of CBRC, yet doesn't know DFL meetings are open to the public. he wants to impose a code of conduct on meeting guests because he doesn't like cyndy martin's criminal charges for killing a teenager with her car being mentioned on social media
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Anyone who has ever dealt with DFLers understands how fucking weird some of them are about basic reporting, freedom of speech and anything that might be slightly critical of the politician they are currently in love with.
Real dork behavior.
Real dork behavior.
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
Whoever put this photo for the article deserves a raise.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Whoever put this photo for the article deserves a raise.
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Before state troopers & other cops took over security outside the ICE facility, some of the most brutal verbal assaults on ICE that we witnessed came on weekdays when there were just two women protesting.
They eviscerated these guys & you could tell they got under ICE’s skin in ways guys couldn’t.
They eviscerated these guys & you could tell they got under ICE’s skin in ways guys couldn’t.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Before state troopers & other cops took over security outside the ICE facility, some of the most brutal verbal assaults on ICE that we witnessed came on weekdays when there were just two women protesting.
They eviscerated these guys & you could tell they got under ICE’s skin in ways guys couldn’t.
They eviscerated these guys & you could tell they got under ICE’s skin in ways guys couldn’t.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114.
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️
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it’s all very minnesotan to talk around the problem and pretend that accurately describing facts is “toxic” and “outrageous” but no one says anything about the woman facing criminal charges for killing a teenager with her car
i think keeping someone like that in leadership is toxic and outrageous
i think keeping someone like that in leadership is toxic and outrageous
November 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
it’s all very minnesotan to talk around the problem and pretend that accurately describing facts is “toxic” and “outrageous” but no one says anything about the woman facing criminal charges for killing a teenager with her car
i think keeping someone like that in leadership is toxic and outrageous
i think keeping someone like that in leadership is toxic and outrageous
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Solidarity is brewing, let's serve it together by showing up on the picket line, supporting strike funds and skipping Starbucks while workers are on strike! Starbucks baristas are fighting for living wages, fair schedules, respect on the job, and an end to union busting. 🌹 buff.ly/e0DQyAs
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Solidarity is brewing, let's serve it together by showing up on the picket line, supporting strike funds and skipping Starbucks while workers are on strike! Starbucks baristas are fighting for living wages, fair schedules, respect on the job, and an end to union busting. 🌹 buff.ly/e0DQyAs
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Save the date! Join our Electoral Committee for a town hall as we breakdown the 2025 Minneapolis elections. We’ll be joined by TCDSA endorsed councilmembers.
When: Sunday, December 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/tcdsa...
When: Sunday, December 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/tcdsa...
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Save the date! Join our Electoral Committee for a town hall as we breakdown the 2025 Minneapolis elections. We’ll be joined by TCDSA endorsed councilmembers.
When: Sunday, December 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/tcdsa...
When: Sunday, December 14 from 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Where: Minneapolis Central Library, Pohlad Hall
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/tcdsa...
It’s very funny that ABC is still a target of Trump even after they paid him a $14 million bribe.
love to read the official website for the white house
ABC “News” Is Fake News
ABC “News” is not journalism — it’s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network. The network’s longstanding commitment to hoaxes,
www.whitehouse.gov
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s very funny that ABC is still a target of Trump even after they paid him a $14 million bribe.
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This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony.
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NJ Bans ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Evidence in Nationwide First (1)
Criminal prosecutors can’t build murder cases on medical diagnoses that the mere shaking of a baby, without further evidence of trauma, resulted in a child’s death, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
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Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
How U.S. Universities Used Counterterror Fusion Centers to Surveil Student Protests for Palestine
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
interc.pt
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Internal university communications reveal how a network established for post-9/11 intelligence sharing was turned on students protesting genocide.
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The CDC revives debunked ‘link’ between childhood vaccines and autism : Shots - Health News
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a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
ALT: a man in a leather jacket and tie is saying cool cool cool cool cool cool cool
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November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The CDC revives debunked ‘link’ between childhood vaccines and autism : Shots - Health News
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
We can start by forcibly taking back all of the money Congress members made in the stock market. racketmn.com/hmm-how-is-m...
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 AM
We can start by forcibly taking back all of the money Congress members made in the stock market. racketmn.com/hmm-how-is-m...
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Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children
Two notorious neo-Nazi websites have been taken offline following an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation that revealed how they have been used to target children.
www.newschannel5.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Notorious neo-Nazi websites go offline after NewsChannel 5 exposes targeting of children www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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DHS agents have the gall to gaslight him by saying "no wrongful arrest here," just a little detainment. Our Constitution is a wonderful document in theory, but if courts give any loopholes for cops to get around it, they will abuse those loopholes, and they are.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
DHS agents have the gall to gaslight him by saying "no wrongful arrest here," just a little detainment. Our Constitution is a wonderful document in theory, but if courts give any loopholes for cops to get around it, they will abuse those loopholes, and they are.
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DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
DHS beat, tackled, shackled, cut, and bruised US citizen Arturo Hermosillo in June. His hands turned blue. They stuffed him in a van and drove him to a station. Yet the agents told him that he was never "arrested," just "detained," ICE's new get-out-of-jail-free word.
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ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas.
Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her.
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The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:
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NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
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Feds used chemical agents dozens of times in Chicago • The TRiiBE
An investigation by reporters from six newsrooms found that agents used chemical irritants nearly 50 times during Operation Midway Blitz.
thetriibe.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
NEW — An investigation by a group of Chicago-area newsrooms and independent journalists found that federal agents used chemical weapons on protesters at least 49 times across 18 incidents across Chicago and the suburbs since October 1.
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
thetriibe.com/2025/11/feds...
There’s a long history of ring wing leaders being killed or having attempts on their lives by their followers.
Probably the most widely known is the conservative military leadership in Nazi Germany who knew Hitler was a nut job and didn’t want to go along with a dipshit anymore.
Probably the most widely known is the conservative military leadership in Nazi Germany who knew Hitler was a nut job and didn’t want to go along with a dipshit anymore.
There's really only one sensible thing the MAGA movement can do to survive the damage Trump is doing to their brand, but if I say what it is I'll get banned
Trump: "You can't come in, open a massive computer chip factory for billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona, and think you're gonna hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're gonna have to bring thousands of people with them and I'm gonna welcome those people. This is MAGA."
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
There’s a long history of ring wing leaders being killed or having attempts on their lives by their followers.
Probably the most widely known is the conservative military leadership in Nazi Germany who knew Hitler was a nut job and didn’t want to go along with a dipshit anymore.
Probably the most widely known is the conservative military leadership in Nazi Germany who knew Hitler was a nut job and didn’t want to go along with a dipshit anymore.
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Approximately 1.8 million files from The Washington Post, including application logs, invoices and other information documenting financial transactions.
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Approximately 1.8 million files from The Washington Post, including application logs, invoices and other information documenting financial transactions.
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Washington Post - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Approximately 1.8 million files from The Washington Post, including application logs, invoices and other information documenting financial transactions. While the data contains PII for approximately…
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November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Washington Post (439 GB)
Approximately 1.8 million files from The Washington Post, including application logs, invoices and other information documenting financial transactions.
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Approximately 1.8 million files from The Washington Post, including application logs, invoices and other information documenting financial transactions.
ddosecrets.com/article/wash...
Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/supporting-d...