Clint Combs
@combs0294.bsky.social
Journalist | Freelancer Bylines in Southside Pride and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
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The landlord stayed up all night reviewing security footage to help the police find the suspect.
Feels worth pointing out that in googling him to learn more, I found out that the landlord is an immigrant who came to America in 1979 from Belarus. www.boston25news.com/news/local/l...
Feels worth pointing out that in googling him to learn more, I found out that the landlord is an immigrant who came to America in 1979 from Belarus. www.boston25news.com/news/local/l...
Local tea shop in Providence helped officials track down suspect in Brown University mass shooting
A local tea shop in Providence helped police track down a suspect overnight after the Brown University mass shooting.
www.boston25news.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The landlord stayed up all night reviewing security footage to help the police find the suspect.
Feels worth pointing out that in googling him to learn more, I found out that the landlord is an immigrant who came to America in 1979 from Belarus. www.boston25news.com/news/local/l...
Feels worth pointing out that in googling him to learn more, I found out that the landlord is an immigrant who came to America in 1979 from Belarus. www.boston25news.com/news/local/l...
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The Rikers crisis continues — a Brennan Center researcher on what he's hoping to see from Mamdani:
Since 2015, at least 116 people have died in the New York City jails — including the brutal Rikers Island complex.
Here are several ways Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can address the troubled institution. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Here are several ways Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social can address the troubled institution. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
What the Incoming Mayor Must Do About New York City Jails
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani can harness the federal court’s historic intervention in the local jail system to durably improve it.
www.brennancenter.org
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Rikers crisis continues — a Brennan Center researcher on what he's hoping to see from Mamdani:
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I'm telling you
Again
Plates are meaningless.
Document the
VIN numbers.
Again
Plates are meaningless.
Document the
VIN numbers.
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I'm telling you
Again
Plates are meaningless.
Document the
VIN numbers.
Again
Plates are meaningless.
Document the
VIN numbers.
Who is Mark Pederson? And what set off this email?
December 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Who is Mark Pederson? And what set off this email?
ICE agents also pulled over a woman and abducted her at the corner of 38th and Hiawatha on Thursday. They left her vehicle running idle near the turn lane at the intersection. This is objectively a safety issue. No one in the state is willing to comment.
These ICE agents MUST be charged with state crimes: Mubashir a 20-year-old Somali American citizen was taking his lunch break when a federal agent abruptly tackled him. He told them he was a US citizen. There's NO immunity for ICE agents if they assault a US citizen www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...
ICE Arrested A U.S. Citizen For 'Looking Like He's Somali,' Minneapolis Mayor Says
Local leaders have increasingly raised concerns about racial profiling as ICE has descended on the Minneapolis area.
www.huffpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ICE agents also pulled over a woman and abducted her at the corner of 38th and Hiawatha on Thursday. They left her vehicle running idle near the turn lane at the intersection. This is objectively a safety issue. No one in the state is willing to comment.
www.sj-r.com/story/news/s... I have received similar reports in Minneapolis that ICE has been using duplicate license plates and have been swapping plates as well. The state A.G.'s Office referred questions to the Dept. of Public Safety. DPS did not comment.
Illinois agency confirms ICE agents are swapping out rental plates
The Illinois Secretary of State said federal agents switched license plates on at least one rented vehicle.
www.sj-r.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
www.sj-r.com/story/news/s... I have received similar reports in Minneapolis that ICE has been using duplicate license plates and have been swapping plates as well. The state A.G.'s Office referred questions to the Dept. of Public Safety. DPS did not comment.
Target Community Forum at the Minneapolis Central Library
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Target Community Forum at the Minneapolis Central Library
A day before this event ICE raided the Greenway Apartment Complex after a maintenance staffer with IPG opened the door. It's not entirely clear whether DHS/ICE had a judicial or admin warrant.
NEW: Tenant Union Holds Sit-in Over Neglected Maintenance, Demand Property Manager Be Fired
Two weeks ago, management called Minneapolis Police on tenants staging a sit-in over neglected health and safety issues. Full story in link.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/tenant-...
Two weeks ago, management called Minneapolis Police on tenants staging a sit-in over neglected health and safety issues. Full story in link.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/tenant-...
Tenant Union Holds Sit-in Over Neglected Maintenance, Demand Property Manager Be Fired - UNICORN RIOT
A tenant union in Minneapolis confronted their property manager with a sit-in and demands that she be fired.
unicornriot.ninja
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A day before this event ICE raided the Greenway Apartment Complex after a maintenance staffer with IPG opened the door. It's not entirely clear whether DHS/ICE had a judicial or admin warrant.
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At @inthesetimes.com, we've been following how tenant unions are adapting strategies from organized labor.
Here's a fascinating story about the flipside: a corporate landlord taking a page from anti-union employers, even hiring a "union avoidance" firm. (1/8)
inthesetimes.com/article/tena...
Here's a fascinating story about the flipside: a corporate landlord taking a page from anti-union employers, even hiring a "union avoidance" firm. (1/8)
inthesetimes.com/article/tena...
As Tenants Organize, Landlords Embrace Old-School Union-Busting
Tenant union members say they’ve faced threats, surveillance and retaliation from their private equity landlord, which has retained a notorious “union avoidance” firm.
inthesetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
At @inthesetimes.com, we've been following how tenant unions are adapting strategies from organized labor.
Here's a fascinating story about the flipside: a corporate landlord taking a page from anti-union employers, even hiring a "union avoidance" firm. (1/8)
inthesetimes.com/article/tena...
Here's a fascinating story about the flipside: a corporate landlord taking a page from anti-union employers, even hiring a "union avoidance" firm. (1/8)
inthesetimes.com/article/tena...
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The percentage of medication abortions arranged via telehealth grew again in the first half of 2025, according to a new report, despite Republican efforts to keep doctors in blue states from prescribing pills to women in states where abortion is illegal. https://wapo.st/3KGUF11
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The percentage of medication abortions arranged via telehealth grew again in the first half of 2025, according to a new report, despite Republican efforts to keep doctors in blue states from prescribing pills to women in states where abortion is illegal. https://wapo.st/3KGUF11
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An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota has roiled the party by declining to resign as chair of Congressional District 8 despite being charged with criminal vehicular homicide.
DFL stands by Northland party official charged with vehicular homicide • Minnesota Reformer
An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota has roiled the party by declining to resign as chair of Congressional District 8 despite being charged with criminal vehicular hom...
minnesotareformer.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
An influential Democratic-Farmer-Labor official in northern Minnesota has roiled the party by declining to resign as chair of Congressional District 8 despite being charged with criminal vehicular homicide.
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South 91 – Cooper 41
South High came out locked in tonight. A 48-point second quarter and big performances from Jamair Wright (25) and Laviance Gales (21) sealed a dominant win.
This squad is looking dangerous. 🐅🏀
South High came out locked in tonight. A 48-point second quarter and big performances from Jamair Wright (25) and Laviance Gales (21) sealed a dominant win.
This squad is looking dangerous. 🐅🏀
December 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
South 91 – Cooper 41
South High came out locked in tonight. A 48-point second quarter and big performances from Jamair Wright (25) and Laviance Gales (21) sealed a dominant win.
This squad is looking dangerous. 🐅🏀
South High came out locked in tonight. A 48-point second quarter and big performances from Jamair Wright (25) and Laviance Gales (21) sealed a dominant win.
This squad is looking dangerous. 🐅🏀
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Q: Many are here legally. What should they think?
Trump: "Well they can't be happy. If you look at Somalia they're taking over Minnesota." And this - in a long line of off-hand, objectively dumb comments from the President that spurred ICE deployments.
Q: Many are here legally. What should they think?
Trump: "Well they can't be happy. If you look at Somalia they're taking over Minnesota." And this - in a long line of off-hand, objectively dumb comments from the President that spurred ICE deployments.
https://youtu.be/Z5z1Qx2d2fc?si=g4M0A6mWxVIzmhNj&t=2899
t.co
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Q: Many are here legally. What should they think?
Trump: "Well they can't be happy. If you look at Somalia they're taking over Minnesota." And this - in a long line of off-hand, objectively dumb comments from the President that spurred ICE deployments.
Q: Many are here legally. What should they think?
Trump: "Well they can't be happy. If you look at Somalia they're taking over Minnesota." And this - in a long line of off-hand, objectively dumb comments from the President that spurred ICE deployments.
Before Hegseth's supposed 'war on drugs' there was a war on diversity. My story here: southsidepride.com/2025/05/06/s... "In this administration, underqualified white men can fail upward in national security, while people of color who speak out are silenced, surveilled, or prosecuted."
December 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Before Hegseth's supposed 'war on drugs' there was a war on diversity. My story here: southsidepride.com/2025/05/06/s... "In this administration, underqualified white men can fail upward in national security, while people of color who speak out are silenced, surveilled, or prosecuted."
Never thought that I had to write this but here we go: When I walked into my Journalism 101 class in 2014, I never imagined that I would break into journalism—or that I would one day be covering demonstrations outside a Target that ICE used as a staging ground for its operation.
My J-School Prof. David Wells used to work at the Enquirer in the 90s when they exposed Chiquita bananas. The paper's reporting took on Cincinnati power broker Carl Linder and lost. www.democracynow.org/2007/3/23/ch...
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Never thought that I had to write this but here we go: When I walked into my Journalism 101 class in 2014, I never imagined that I would break into journalism—or that I would one day be covering demonstrations outside a Target that ICE used as a staging ground for its operation.
My J-School Prof. David Wells used to work at the Enquirer in the 90s when they exposed Chiquita bananas. The paper's reporting took on Cincinnati power broker Carl Linder and lost. www.democracynow.org/2007/3/23/ch...
December 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
My J-School Prof. David Wells used to work at the Enquirer in the 90s when they exposed Chiquita bananas. The paper's reporting took on Cincinnati power broker Carl Linder and lost. www.democracynow.org/2007/3/23/ch...
spokesman-recorder.com/2025/12/06/m... In this week's edition of the Spokesman-Recorder I spoke to a local brewery in Northloop and how the state legalizing cannabis beverages in 2023 helped them recovered losses from a nationwide decline in alcohol sales.
Minnesota Braces for Federal Hemp Ban Set to Disrupt Farmers and Small Businesses
Minnesota’s hemp growers, beverage makers and retailers warn a federal hemp ban will devastate local businesses long before it takes effect in 2026. Farmers, distributors and lawmakers say the measure...
spokesman-recorder.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
spokesman-recorder.com/2025/12/06/m... In this week's edition of the Spokesman-Recorder I spoke to a local brewery in Northloop and how the state legalizing cannabis beverages in 2023 helped them recovered losses from a nationwide decline in alcohol sales.
Setting up shell companies to received fraudulent benefits are not new: www.twincities.com/2025/11/29/h... What is new is how lawmakers selective target people based, not on fraud, but their ethnicity.
How fraud swamped Minnesota’s social services system on Tim Walz’s watch
The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness.
www.twincities.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Setting up shell companies to received fraudulent benefits are not new: www.twincities.com/2025/11/29/h... What is new is how lawmakers selective target people based, not on fraud, but their ethnicity.
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In a months-long investigation, @southsideweekly.bsky.social and Type Investigations found that immigrants seeking a legal path to residency or citizenship must navigate a confusing landscape of immigration services providers. www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
Fraudsters target immigrants seeking legal help - Type Investigations
www.typeinvestigations.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In a months-long investigation, @southsideweekly.bsky.social and Type Investigations found that immigrants seeking a legal path to residency or citizenship must navigate a confusing landscape of immigration services providers. www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
So two white dudes, presumably managers at the Lake Street Target came outside to tell Luis Argueta from UnidosMN to move off because of safety concerns. I thought they would be more concerned business disruption with activists in front of the cart coral. But what ever.
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So two white dudes, presumably managers at the Lake Street Target came outside to tell Luis Argueta from UnidosMN to move off because of safety concerns. I thought they would be more concerned business disruption with activists in front of the cart coral. But what ever.
So my editors at the Spokesman-Recorder done bylines on the boycott against Target: spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/28/t... & spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/27/t... Well apparently Target is a staging ground for ICE-ops: spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/27/t... Presser today @ 2:30 PM:
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So my editors at the Spokesman-Recorder done bylines on the boycott against Target: spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/28/t... & spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/27/t... Well apparently Target is a staging ground for ICE-ops: spokesman-recorder.com/2025/11/27/t... Presser today @ 2:30 PM:
So there's going to be a press conference today because ICE has been using the Target parking lot on Lake Street as a staging ground for its operations. A press conference is scheduled for today at 2 pm.
December 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
So there's going to be a press conference today because ICE has been using the Target parking lot on Lake Street as a staging ground for its operations. A press conference is scheduled for today at 2 pm.
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NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction, Jimmie Duncan is free on bail. But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan, even as the...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: Jimmie Duncan spent 27 years on death row, convicted in part based on evidence experts now consider to be junk science.
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
But even after the overturning of his murder conviction and his release on bail, Louisiana still wants to execute him.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social, w/ @veritenews.org
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In Tunisia, the sentencing of Ayachi Hammami, a prominent human rights lawyer, was the latest sign of the country's backsliding into authoritarianism, rights groups say.
Tunisia Arrests Opposition Figure in Widening Crackdown
The sentencing of Ayachi Hammami, a prominent human rights lawyer, was the latest sign of Tunisia’s backsliding into authoritarianism, say rights groups.
nyti.ms
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In Tunisia, the sentencing of Ayachi Hammami, a prominent human rights lawyer, was the latest sign of the country's backsliding into authoritarianism, rights groups say.