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PBS News@pbsnews.org · last mo.

Bodycam footage released Friday shows New York City police arriving at the scene and finding plainclothes ICE officers, one seemingly dressed as a construction worker and carrying a long gun, another tending to the man they'd shot in the neck minutes before. https://to.pbs.org/3TJyn3f

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60+ years ago, Judy Garland welcomed rising star Barbra Streisand to Garland's TV show, to sing with her a medley of two classics from The Great American Songbook. Now Pentatonix vocalists Kirstin Maldonado and Mitch Grassi sing their version of this wonderful duet: youtu.be/9memX31_52g?...

Pentatonix - Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again (Official Video)

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1/ Republicans are running a psych operation on Democrats. They warn us not to nominate populists. But leaked GOP memos prove they’re actually terrified of populist candidates. Trump said it himself: Bernie was the one he didn’t want to face. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

I think we heard that B-1 afterburner night flyover just a little while ago, presumably delayed by the thunderstorms like the rest of the official mayhem. It was terrifying.

Valerie W@valocipede.bsky.social · 4mo ago

No yeah everything is fine and good in DC

This 7 year old girl just reminded the world of something important: You can stumble, crash, fall behind & still finish strong! The race isn’t over when you fall. It’s over when you stop getting back up! This little girl’s determination is the kind of inspiration we all need! #SheShed #GirlPower

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One of my favorite types of music: where the musicians talk about the experience of being musicians. Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel. Faithfully & Send Her My Love by Journey. Misbehavin' by Pentatonix. Turn the Page by Bob Seger. Running on Empty (album) by Jackson Browne. What else?

This one hits hard.

Mitch Grassi of Pentatonix, singing as Messer, covers Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights": youtu.be/ykpPs5OaG1c?...

Messer - Wuthering Heights

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WOW! 👏Philly DA Larry Krasner: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you. We will achieve justice.” #ICEoffOurStreets #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Just a thought….🤔 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

Micah@rincewind.run · 10mo ago

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money "‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"

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Springsteen releases new song: "Streets of Minneapolis": Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst... We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Total victory on this issue; members of Congress will again have the right to conduct surprise inspections of ICE detention centers.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

A heroic moment in this anti-semitic tragedy. The hero here is a 43 yo Lebanese immigrant and fruit stand owner named Ahmed Al Ahmed who was shot twice in the arm (apparently bt the other gunman) after wrestling the gun away. He will be fine according to a relative. youtu.be/IUEcLiZI6sI?...

Hero suffers two gunshot wounds in Bondi beach shooting | 7NEWS

YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia

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Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 11mo ago

Wow! This man is a hero. Watch him wrestle the rifle from one of the Bondi Beach shooters.

Rob Reiner, the son of a pioneering television comedian who became a popular sitcom actor himself before directing a slate of beloved films, including “This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “The Princess Bride,” died on Sunday. He was 78.

Rob Reiner, Actor Who Went on to Direct Classic Films, Dies at 78

Mr. Reiner, who was in “All in the Family,” directed films including “This Is Spinal Tap,” “When Harry Met Sally …,” “The Princess Bride” and “A Few Good Men.”

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So we have two immigrant heroes. One in Australia who helped disarm one of the shooters and one in the US who helped track down the Brown U shooter. When a man stabbed several people in the UK, it was also an immigrant who disarmed him. Weird that the Far Right keeps vilifying immigrants.

Leave this Maryland man alone. Let him go home to be with his family.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough. This is deeply sick conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

11 people in Australia were killed today by gunmen while they celebrated the first night of Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Targeted because they were Jews. As Jewish families around the world, we place our menorahs in our windows. Our message to the world: Light will outlive the darkness.

I so totally misread this when I first saw it. Forgive me please, I was blinded by hope and skimmed it too fast. This rots, that the hometown of 3 of the 5 members of Pentatonix would do this.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW: Here's my story on Arlington, Texas, becoming the first known city in the nation to kill a city-wide LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination policy in response to the Trump administration. With no statewide protections, it was one of the few things protecting LGBTQ+ Texans: www.chron.com/culture/arti...