three weeks from tonight, Isle of Klezbos plays Joe’s Pub NYC! This will be our only full sextet hometown show for a while: Sunday, March 15 at 6pm. Great music and fun audience too. publictheater.org/performances...

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

My new article “Rediscovering the ‘Dybbuk’ composer Henokh Kon” in The Forward forward.com/yiddish-worl... In the second photo, that’s Kon himself seated farthest to the right, in lighter suit with his arm on the table.

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!

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

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 +LICM 3/1 MetroKlezmer

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.”

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.

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 shorturl.at/bLhmR

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

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

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.

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.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

ACLU asks court to reinstate restrictions on federal agents in Minnesota after shooting https://twp.ai/4ivFEW

NYC: Isle of Klezbos plays the Ides of March! Joe’s Pub 6pm on Sunday 3/15 (doors open 5:30pm). Full sextet on our favorite hometown stage. Tickets: publictheater.org/performances...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

AARP calls for accountability over DOGE sharing Social Security data  https://twp.ai/4iv6WK

To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

Newsom says Davos appearance was canceled under pressure from Trump

Isle of Klezbos plays Florida’s Arts Garage in Delray Beach on February 13. We love this venue! Advance tix suggested as we’ve sold out this stage on two prior FL tours. Tell snowbird friends & family: All-gal sextet from NYC takes a lucky winter break Fri 2/13 at 8pm artsgarage.org/event/isle-o...

Remembering & celebrating Jill Sobule z”l in our new video: What Have I Done?” (aka “Oh Sh*t”!) is one of her Music from Yentl original songs. On this date in 2015 Isle of Klezbos joined Jill onstage for her Yentl show at Lincoln Center & tomorrow is her birthday anniversary! youtu.be/aRSHe5nS1l0

Trump news at a glance: The medal may be in Trump’s hands, but peace prize is not his, Nobel officials say

Check this out. Senator Welch (D-VT) asks this Republican law professor at Scalia Law School if Biden won the 2020 election. The Fed Soc hack refuses to say. (guess where this is going!)

Impressive!

Hoping a judge will halt this.

The day before, Welch VOTED FOR a Trump judge who ALSO refused to say if Biden won. Dem leaders are living in the past. People like Welch are killing our democracy.

Tomorrow! Isle of Klezbos sextet 12:30-2pm playing City Winery NYC (doors open 11:30am, full menu & bar) gomag.com/event/isle-o...

Hudson Valley music fans: Isle of Klezbos debuts March 7 at The Stissing Center in Pine Plains NY Tickets now on sale www.thestissingcenter.org/events-list/...

Isle of Klezbos plays Florida next month: February 13 at Arts Garage in Delray Beach FL! Very fun concert venue (we’ve sold out this place twice before on tours, book now for best seats) artsgarage.org/event/isle-o...

This was also what Charles Manson was saying before his arrest. Almost word for word.