Clint Combs
@combs0294.bsky.social
Journalist | Freelancer Bylines in Southside Pride and the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
“Major League Baseball knows how dirty the business is here, but it’s not doing anything to stop it” Piñao Ortiz, former the Dominican commissioner of baseball said. 🔗https://www.propublica.org/article/how-dominican-republic-baseball-factory-traps-players-mlb-santo-caraballo
Caretakers clean Alex Pretti memorial site after vandalism minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/11/c... By the Minnesota Reformer's Nicole Neri.
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Attorney general race: Why would we enlist a Trump ally in our fight against Trump? • Minnesota Reformer
Federal immigration officers on the scene where prosecutors say ICE agent Christian Castro shot a man without justification Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in north Minneapolis. Attorney General Keith Ellis...
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Springfield is mourning one of its own after Pierre Damas Bel, who was forced to wear electronic ankle bracelet by ICE, walked into traffic and was killed by truck. Bel's experience illustrates the wider crisis Haitians now face in the Ohio city amid Trump's anti-immigration crackdown
Death and fear stalk Haitians in Ohio city amid Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown
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State Rep. Walter Hudson posted "don't negotiate with terrorists," in response to 100 Labor Day protesters marching through a Minneapolis Target calling on the retailer to sign the Business Democracy Pledge.
This week's POLITICO Magazine cover story: Bernie Sanders lets loose on the Democratic Party, the midterms and 2028. The 84-year-old progressive champion built a movement. Could it survive without him? 🔗 politi.co/4czy413 Also in this issue👇🧵
Halloween and Labor Day are the only bonafide holidays worth celebrating. Sarah Lazare and Amie Stager of Workday Magazine talked to Racket Cast about the modern day workers' movement. racketmn.com/racketcast-e...
The right claims Abdul El-Sayed's past comments constitute evidence of him being a “terrorist” and “radical Islamist” or a “jihadist sympathizer” who is “infiltrating from within”. It has also targeted El-Sayed’s family.
The right is targeting Abdul El-Sayed's family members
The war on "woke" never ends.
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Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty statement on Christian Castro:
New: Axon says cops are asking it to change its license plate readers to make them look less like Flock cameras. This is because people keep vandalizing Flock ones. Axon said it is looking to change the design. CEO said this in a now deleted webinar, but we got a copy www.404media.co/cops-are-ask...
Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don't Destroy Them
“Is there any talk to redesign the Outpost to not look exactly like the Flock camera — I think it will help agencies with the optics while we batten down the hatches,” one apparent cop asked during a ...
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Homeland Security Investigations used Clearview AI to search for one of the Minnesota 15 defendants. The system produced a false match, linking Facebook photos of another man, his wife and their family to the defendant's HSI dossier. Article in quoted post by @combs0294.bsky.social
Unicorn Riot@unicornriot.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 Homeland Security Investigations has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, and is now maintaining centralized dossiers on ordinary American protesters.
We took friends in town for My Chemical Romance here last weekend and blew their fucking minds with the veggie and philly cheesesteak sambusas. Highly recommend
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2w agocelebrating albi kitchen’s 1 year anniversary yesterday! they’ve faced a lot of external challenges after the nick shirley video but just expanded with this new event space. we are lucky to have them investing in loring park and being part of the community. was great to see omar fateh there too!
First look at murder in the 30 big cities with available data that I'm tracking shows the large drop is continuing (though perhaps a little less intensely in August). I'm still waiting on a few agencies and will update this later this month.
In Ohio's governor's race, Democrat Amy Acton supports ICE collaboration, as GOP's Vivek Ramaswamy concerned about Flock cameras ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/28/p...
Democrat Acton supports ICE collaboration, as GOP Ramaswamy concerned about Flock cameras • Ohio Capital Journal
Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Dr. Amy Acton is breaking from her party to support local police in working with ICE. This comes as GOP Vivek Ramaswamy raises concerns about mass surveillance d...
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"Although the petition drop with Chelsea Manning was obviously a publicly promoted event, it is troubling to see it appear in a DHS file. We know that law enforcement and intelligence agencies like DHS treat speech as suspicious and love to deploy guilt by association-” @chipgibbons.bsky.social.
unicornriot.ninja/2026/dhs-fac... "HSI are a bunch of bozos and Keystone Cops that don’t know what the hell they’re doing," Minnesota 15 defendant Isaac Sant said.
DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created ...
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Breaking News: A whistle-blower at the U.S. Postal Service said Trump officials were defying court orders with a “secretive, rushed” effort affecting voting by mail.
Whistle-Blower Says Trump Officials Are Defying Court Orders on Voting by Mail
A report detailed “grave concerns” that a new system being rushed into use by the U.S. Postal Service could imperil millions of mail ballots ahead of the midterm elections.
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Shoutout to Minneapolis journalism for snagging a STUNNING 7 finalist slots in the 2026 Online Journalism Awards for coverage of the ICE surge. @madisonmcvan.bsky.social & Team @minnesotareformer.com team, & MPR's @jcollins.bsky.social and @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social (and me!) need a watch party!
2026 Online Journalism Awards Winners
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In the days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, institutions rushed to appease online mobs and vitriolic politicians who demanded takedowns of anyone critical of the right-wing influencer. Now, courts have forced them to answer to something much more enduring than right-wing pressure: the law.
Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.
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Unions and immigrant rights activists called on Target, Best Buy & 3M to publicly condemn ICE's undercover surveillance operations against Minnesotans. spokesman-recorder.com/2026/08/22/t...
The People’s Coalition Against Trump is hosting a press conference this evening calling for the resignations of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and Interim Police Chief Bill Peterson over what the group describes as their protection of Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang.
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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"NEVER BEEN DEFEATED AND I WON'T STOP NOW"
Alex Boye Performs 'Win Hand Sign'
ALT: Alex Boye Performs 'Win Hand Sign'
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PLAYING DJ KHALED'S "ALL I DO IS WIN" ALLL DAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. Y'all better talk nice to me now.
Drake Gets Hyped at Basketball Game
ALT: Drake Gets Hyped at Basketball Game
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Not that it would make it any better if he was actually ever good as an NBA player, but my reaction to Kanter spewing hate about the WNBA is at least partially, "I'm sorry, but why do you think anyone cares what you have to say?"
Far-right racist grifter and agitator Edward "Jake" Lang is scheduled to have another appearance in Minneapolis tomorrow. His last stop here didn't go very well for him (see link w/video & report). Saturday at noon outside the City Hall, Lang has said he'll be showing up dressed in "100% blackface."
Far-Right Provocateur Jake Lang Chased Out of Minneapolis During Hate Rally - UNICORN RIOT
Minneapolis, MN — Thousands of counter-protesters gathered on Jan. 17 in downtown Minneapolis outside the City Hall, quashing an Islamophobic rally before it was able to even begin. Edward Jacob “Jake...
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Reactions to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's proposed 11 percent property task hike and proposed cuts to the city's Park Board and more: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/08/19/f...
