Danny Rivero
@danielrivero.bsky.social
I like digging up dirt, figuratively and literally. Public radio in Miami. 🇨🇺🇺🇸. Pro-Puerto Rico.🏴
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Danny Rivero
@danielrivero.bsky.social
· Apr 26
I have a book coming out in October about Florida's decades long battle for voting rights for people with felony convictions
It's an extremely hopeful but ultimately infuriating saga that I reported for years.
Preorder your copy today for Independent Bookshop Day.
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It's an extremely hopeful but ultimately infuriating saga that I reported for years.
Preorder your copy today for Independent Bookshop Day.
bookshop.org/p/books/just...
NEW: Miami-Dade tax collector cracks down on companies operating in Cuba. Is it all a big stunt?
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Miami-Dade tax collector cracks down on companies operating in Cuba. Is it a stunt?
As part of an effort to crack down on business relationships with Cuba and strike at the heart of the communist government, Miami-Dade's tax collector has revoked key licenses of more than two dozen c...
www.wlrn.org
December 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NEW: Miami-Dade tax collector cracks down on companies operating in Cuba. Is it all a big stunt?
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
One of the most unexpected things this year is that now Gov. DeSantis and Bernie are pretty much on the same page about AI and data centers
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
One of the most unexpected things this year is that now Gov. DeSantis and Bernie are pretty much on the same page about AI and data centers
If you ever believed the pretenses you're a mark
Pressuring govt attorneys to wrongfully accuse campuses of violating the law is unprecedented, unlawful, and further proves what we already knew: the Trump-Vance admin’s attack on the UC system was never about protecting students, it was about political control.
https://lat.ms/4jcrFep
https://lat.ms/4jcrFep
Times Investigation: Ex-Trump DOJ lawyers say 'fraudulent' UC antisemitism probes led them to quit
The Times spoke to nine former Department of Justice civil rights attorneys tasked with investigating antisemitism complaints at the University of California. They all resigned during their investigat...
www.latimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
If you ever believed the pretenses you're a mark
One of the absolute best parts of doing radio is reassuring women guests that we are just radio and they don't have to do makeup or dress up fancy or anything. I wish I was joking about that but it's true.
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens
December 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
One of the absolute best parts of doing radio is reassuring women guests that we are just radio and they don't have to do makeup or dress up fancy or anything. I wish I was joking about that but it's true.
In a tit for tat scenario if this escalates, wealthy politically connected Americans would be way worse off being banned from Europe than similarly suited Europeans being banned from the US
In a major escalation against the EU, alongside civil society representatives the Trump Administration sanctions former Commissioner Breton for work he did in official capacity ↘️ www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
In a tit for tat scenario if this escalates, wealthy politically connected Americans would be way worse off being banned from Europe than similarly suited Europeans being banned from the US
She does not say that she did not read the paper she was supposed to read, like that information is nowhere in this clip
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
She does not say that she did not read the paper she was supposed to read, like that information is nowhere in this clip
This piece was very good. Miami is a very strange place with a very colorful recent history. That's why I like it here.
Always a good reminder that, for all the US government's rhetoric around combating drug trafficking, it's often involved itself. prospect.org/2025/12/23/n...
The Narco-Terrorist Elite - The American Prospect
Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?
prospect.org
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This piece was very good. Miami is a very strange place with a very colorful recent history. That's why I like it here.
FAKE OPINIONS
Trump is now calling the New York Times a national security threat and says they “must be dealt with and stopped.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
FAKE OPINIONS
Reposted by Danny Rivero
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
Reposted by Danny Rivero
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
December 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
The thrill of going into physical archives and piecing together threads of original historical documents in ways that no one has ever put together, in ways that algorithms are entirely blind to because they don't have the raw input data, keeps me going, and it keeps my faith in this work strong
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The thrill of going into physical archives and piecing together threads of original historical documents in ways that no one has ever put together, in ways that algorithms are entirely blind to because they don't have the raw input data, keeps me going, and it keeps my faith in this work strong
Sometimes I feel like journalistic ethics are the only thing we have left? Literally zero (human) journalists would ever think of doing this. You must read the source material and are responsible for any errors and/or legal liability if you don't.
Why are academics not on the level?
Why are academics not on the level?
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Sometimes I feel like journalistic ethics are the only thing we have left? Literally zero (human) journalists would ever think of doing this. You must read the source material and are responsible for any errors and/or legal liability if you don't.
Why are academics not on the level?
Why are academics not on the level?
We renamed WLRN's downtown Miami newsroom in the name of Charles Michaels, our IT whiz who passed last year. We miss him and his humor very much.
IT workers are the quiet heroes of so much broadcasting. They don't often get their due. I'm very proud to have our newsroom named after him.
IT workers are the quiet heroes of so much broadcasting. They don't often get their due. I'm very proud to have our newsroom named after him.
December 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We renamed WLRN's downtown Miami newsroom in the name of Charles Michaels, our IT whiz who passed last year. We miss him and his humor very much.
IT workers are the quiet heroes of so much broadcasting. They don't often get their due. I'm very proud to have our newsroom named after him.
IT workers are the quiet heroes of so much broadcasting. They don't often get their due. I'm very proud to have our newsroom named after him.
Except for the "means test social security and medicare" section, this is kinda radical stuff coming from Romney
"we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
"we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Except for the "means test social security and medicare" section, this is kinda radical stuff coming from Romney
"we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
"we have reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
I don't say this to be an ass with all the discourse but as my dad always says, "you don't stop moving because you get old, you get old because you stop moving"
There is absolutely nuance on this topic however people feel about it
There is absolutely nuance on this topic however people feel about it
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
I don't say this to be an ass with all the discourse but as my dad always says, "you don't stop moving because you get old, you get old because you stop moving"
There is absolutely nuance on this topic however people feel about it
There is absolutely nuance on this topic however people feel about it
I did not catch the game but oh my god
Greatest 2 point conversion in NFL history, the old backwards pass fumble recovered in the end zone
December 19, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I did not catch the game but oh my god
Reality is scary and alarmingly .. real.
You would think that would cross people's minds when they pose before a goddamn photographer.
You would think that would cross people's minds when they pose before a goddamn photographer.
Anderson defended himself to WP “I didn’t put the injection sites on her. People seem to be shocked I didn’t use Photoshop to retouch out blemishes and her injection marks. I find it shocking that someone would expect me to retouch out those things,” he said.
www.thedailybeast.com/vanity-fair-...
www.thedailybeast.com/vanity-fair-...
Vanity Fair Photographer Reveals Why He Didn't Edit Leavitt's Lips
A close-up of the White House press secretary’s face exposed what appeared to be injection marks.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reality is scary and alarmingly .. real.
You would think that would cross people's minds when they pose before a goddamn photographer.
You would think that would cross people's minds when they pose before a goddamn photographer.
Oh look we will be spending a trillion on interest next year, and within a decade we will be spending 2 trillion on interest.
Hate to be doomsday about it, but we're basically done. Spending has increased, but more importantly we have had 4 tax cuts since 2000.
Generational austerity is coming.
Hate to be doomsday about it, but we're basically done. Spending has increased, but more importantly we have had 4 tax cuts since 2000.
Generational austerity is coming.
December 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Oh look we will be spending a trillion on interest next year, and within a decade we will be spending 2 trillion on interest.
Hate to be doomsday about it, but we're basically done. Spending has increased, but more importantly we have had 4 tax cuts since 2000.
Generational austerity is coming.
Hate to be doomsday about it, but we're basically done. Spending has increased, but more importantly we have had 4 tax cuts since 2000.
Generational austerity is coming.
Reposted by Danny Rivero
It's very funny that the Louisiana attorney general went crying to the media about this
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
It's very funny that the Louisiana attorney general went crying to the media about this
Reposted by Danny Rivero
The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.
He had this to say about the experience:
He had this to say about the experience:
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The photos of those Haitian refugees was his first big break, as they earned him the Robert Capa Gold Medal award, which catapulted his career. But at the moment he took the images, he and the other men on the boat thought they were going to die.
He had this to say about the experience:
He had this to say about the experience:
Objectively it's hard to understand what the president even thinks the real narrative/ reasoning on Venezuela policy is - is it because of its socialist regime, because of drugs, because of oil or because of "whatever we had" that they took away?
Couldn't be more clear that there is no clarity.
Couldn't be more clear that there is no clarity.
Trump on Venezuela: "Getting land, oil rights, whatever we had -- they took it away because we had a president that maybe wasn't watching. But they're not gonna do that. We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out. And we want it back."
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Objectively it's hard to understand what the president even thinks the real narrative/ reasoning on Venezuela policy is - is it because of its socialist regime, because of drugs, because of oil or because of "whatever we had" that they took away?
Couldn't be more clear that there is no clarity.
Couldn't be more clear that there is no clarity.
NEW: The Florida Constitution requires public/charter schools to have oversight from elected school boards.
But soon Miami Dade College will start doing that work, transfering elected local control to the governor's appointees.
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
But soon Miami Dade College will start doing that work, transfering elected local control to the governor's appointees.
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
'A parallel system': Miami-Dade school district to be cut out of decisions about charter schools
Miami Dade College will soon begin to authorize new charter schools, according to a presentation reviewed by WLRN, cutting out the school district. “If it's going to be funded by public dollars, in my...
www.wlrn.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 PM
NEW: The Florida Constitution requires public/charter schools to have oversight from elected school boards.
But soon Miami Dade College will start doing that work, transfering elected local control to the governor's appointees.
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
But soon Miami Dade College will start doing that work, transfering elected local control to the governor's appointees.
www.wlrn.org/government-p...
The logical endgame of business-friendly small government conservatism is actually one set of top-down policies for the entire country, whether your state or city agrees or not.
States have been the testing ground on this. I did a whole podcast (Tallahassee Takeover) about the Florida version.
States have been the testing ground on this. I did a whole podcast (Tallahassee Takeover) about the Florida version.
Big Tech firms have been complaining about the “patchwork” of state laws ever since Californians adopted their landmark privacy law in 2020, Alan Butler writes. Trump's AI executive order is thus an escalation of a fight that has been brewing for years.
The Preemption Fight Goes Far Beyond AI. States Must Persist. | TechPolicy.Press
Trump's AI executive order is an escalation of a fight that has been brewing for years, Alan Butler writes.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 AM
The logical endgame of business-friendly small government conservatism is actually one set of top-down policies for the entire country, whether your state or city agrees or not.
States have been the testing ground on this. I did a whole podcast (Tallahassee Takeover) about the Florida version.
States have been the testing ground on this. I did a whole podcast (Tallahassee Takeover) about the Florida version.
Ever since I was born in 1986 we have not been at war or in some kind of active military-engaged conflict for maybe like 4 years total, tops
December 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Ever since I was born in 1986 we have not been at war or in some kind of active military-engaged conflict for maybe like 4 years total, tops