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Next weekend’s Florida tour: Isle of Klezbos plays just west of Ft. Lauderdale, Sunday 2pm great advance ticket price dpjcc.org/klezmer $20 or two/$36, reserve ahead: Davie FL Feb 15 (also performing in Delray at artsgarage.org but only 10 tix left there for Friday 8pm Feb 13) Full sextet from NYC!

I didn’t realize that about Perry’s dad. But Reut Regev, who is our special guest on trombone for this tour in Florida, has tour and I think recorded with Perry. Reut is also playing the shows the first week in March upstate New York. She is a regular with our sibling band Metropolitan Klezmer.

Isle of Klezbos plays Florida next weekend! ArtsGarage Feb 13 has a dozen seats left, but plenty of tickets Feb 15 (Sunday 2pm) at DPJCC.org Next month NYC: Joe’s Pub! Sunday, March 15 at 2pm. Upstate tour for our StissingCenter debut Sat, March 7 & then Rockland JCC Sun, March 8 at 1pm Klezbos.com

Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.

The Guardian and AP caught RFK Jr. lying to Congress.

@us.theguardian.com and @apnews.com @bymichellersmith.com

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Isle of Klezbos - Arts Garage Delighting in a panoply of vibrant modal and syncopated sounds, the soulful sister sextet Isle of Klezbos brings vintage and original music to international audiences. From Yiddish swing and tango to ...

Florida Klezbos fans: One week til our tour start in Delray, just 15 ArtsGarage.org seats left for Fri, Feb 13, 8pm. (We’ll also play DPJCC.org Davie FL on Sun, Feb 15: 2pm. Still plenty of matinee tickets) Rollicking, rapturous sextet shows! Yiddish swing & tango too artsgarage.org/event/isle-o...

Isle of Klezbos plays Florida |NYC |Hudson Valley in February & March: Music for morale at ArtsGarage (2/13 Delray), DPJCC (2/15 matinee Davie FL), Stissing Center (3/7 Pine Plains NY), Rockland JCC (3/8 Int’l Women’s Day 1pm) & Joe’sPub (3/15 6pm) Info & tickets Klezbos.com
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Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out. ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.

Which politicians take Palantir money? A new tracker keeps the score:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Davie FL: Isle of Klezbos plays Sunday, Feb 15 at 2pm DPJCC near Fort Lauderdale! Tickets now $20 or two for $36: www.dpjcc.org/events/2026/... Full sextet at our Florida tour finale. (Buy soon, offer may not last.) #florida #klezmer #womeninmusic #yiddishmusic #yiddishswing #yiddishtango #matinee

This is testimony…

📌 Stella Carlson, “Pink coat lady”, speaks on the murder of Alex Pretti.

“After the shooting, they (ICE) decided to just scatter and save themselves.”

Republican ends bid for Minnesota governor, citing ‘unconstitutional’ ICE surge Chris Madel drops out of race and in video criticizes the ‘federal retribution on the citizens’ of Minnesota

Other Republicans, take note: step away from your irredeemably toxic party immediately. History has its eyes on you.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

I will give Suozzi more credit than he gives himself. He knew what the vote was. He just figured the way to "win" was to support the funding because that's more "centrist" and buck the Democratic majority. But morally, he knew what this was about. He ended up wrong morally AND politically.

New Report Details ICE’s Expanding and Increasingly Unaccountable Detention System - American Immigration Council In just one year, the number of people ICE is detaining has shot up by over 75%, with a record 73,000 people detained as of mid-January.

Trump is spending $45 Billion to build and open expanded prison camps for illegal immigrants, mostly people of color.
There is another name for these types of facilities:
Concentration camps.
#TrumpFascism #TrumpRacism
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Klezbos makes music for morale: February x2 in Florida, ArtsGarage 2/13 Delray 8PM & DPJCC 2/15 Davie FL 2PM ($20 or two/$36 deal!) Then 3/7 Stissing Ctr, Pine Plains NY; 3/8 JCC Rockland 1PM International Women’s Day; 3/15 NYC Joe’s Pub 6PM Ides of March for Isle of Klezbos. & More too Klezbos.com

I hope this is true and immediate, and that all of ICE will follow. Go to hell, Don Knotts-i & take Noem, Bondi and all else along

GRAPHIC READS, "FOX STOP LYING!" "WE ALL SAW THE VIDEOS"

🪧 Rise and Resist protests outside Fox Headquarters
📆 Tuesdays
⏰ 12PM
📍 1211 6th Ave

📣 JOIN US!

thanks! hope to play for you whenever the time is right. (whooo your name)

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

This is really something. Mark Warner, one of the more moderate and cautious senators in the Dem caucus, says he'll vote No on ICE funding:

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Mood in minneapolis right now

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Texas Black man exonerated 70 years after execution in case marked by racial bias Review of case found problems with statements from police officer who claimed victim had identified her attacker

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.