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Danny Rivero

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I like digging up dirt, figuratively and literally. Public radio in Miami. 🇨🇺🇺🇸. Pro-Puerto Rico.🏴 Book : https://bookshop.org/p/books/just-freedom-inside-florida-s-decades-long-voting-rights-battle-daniel-rivero/8af38ae9a3cf11c4?ean=9780813081168&next=t

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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 13h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

Feds planning big things in Florida, among other places.

"The request asks for space in 21 cities including ... Florida cities Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Sunrise, Jacksonville, Fort Myers and Naples"

The only city that voted for Trump in 2024 on the whole 21 city list is Naples.

Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 1d

Hey wait hold up what the fuck

Federal law enforcement seeks to expand in Spokane, Boise and other liberal cities to support 'administration's goal'

Federal law enforcement is looking to further its reach in Spokane, Boise and other cities that lean democratic to further the Trump administration’s goals.

www.spokesman.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

"I think that will raise the emotional intelligence of most people and really smooth out the variance in people."

Hard to think of a more anti-human sentiment.

Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely cannot wait for the AI bubble to collapse

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 1d

#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

Despite being surrounded by self-proclaimed techno-whatever people, this admin is taking every possible opportunity to kill innovation of anything coded as "green" or "climate" -- despite the demand that innovation (exports!) is soaring across the globe.

Soon we won't even be able to export cars.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder than Miami passed a ban on this practice back in 2016, a measure that was sponsored by GOP Mayor Francis Suarez when he was a commissioner. Many cities in FL had it on the books.

(An appeals court ruled the FL bans were unconstitutional in FL, GA and SC before this Supreme Court case)

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Supreme Court appears set to reject a Colorado law barring therapists from using sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy on minors.

Supreme Court Hearing on Colorado's Conversion Therapy Ban: Live Updates

Colorado and over 20 other states have banned the practice aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 1d

Today is publishing day! The threshold has been breached!

Really looking forward to this launch event at my local bookstore on Thursday. Come on out!

University Press of Florida @floridapress.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in Miami, don't miss Daniel Rivero (@danielrivero.bsky.social) at Books & Books (@booksandbooks.bsky.social) with Ana Sofia Pelaez this Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7:00pm. Rivero will discuss his new book, JUST FREEDOM, which examines the battle to expand voting rights in Florida.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 2d

Nieman: “Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different. CBS: “America,” “American,” “all of the tools of the digital era,” and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 2d

It was never these activists' intent to enter Israel, I don't really know what the right word would be but "deportation" muddies the waters of what really happened when they were intercepted in international waters and *brought* to Israel by the military

Amber 🦁 @sndlstudio.bsky.social · 2d

israel said they have deported greta thunberg and the other 171 activists that they wrongfully detained while delivering aid to gaza. deporting activists doesn’t stop the message, it amplifies it.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Second, expanded TRO issued in Oregon case challenging Trump's National Guard deployment to the state bars any state or D.C. National Guard being deployed to Oregon.

Update at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-bloc...

[Update, 11:45 p.m.: By Sunday night, a second temporary restraining order was issued in the case, barring the Trump administration from sending any National Guard federalized under 10 U.S.C. 12406 to Oregon from any state or D.C. The move followed actions by the Trump administration overnight to send members of the California National Guard to Oregon and plans to do so as to the Texas National Guard as well.

At a hastily called hearing on Sunday night, Immergut harshly questioned the Justice Department lawyer before her, Eric Hamilton, asking him — while noting that he is an officer of the court — “Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order?”

Issuing the second TRO in as many days in the case, Immergut called the Trump administration’s actions in apparent response to her first order “in direct contravention” of it.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 3d

The feds really want to invade Oregon with militias from other states and as this thread shows they are trying to exhaust and confuse the courts enough to let them get away with it.

All things literally unimaginable a year ago, 10 years ago, 50 years ago, etc..

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 3d

This. If military forces of one state are invading another state we are only the "United" States in name, not in fact. The point cannot be emphasized enough.

Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 3d

"step back"

steps straight into the guy creating contact with a firearm slung over his shoulder

attacks him

We have a very deep hole to climb ourselves out of in this country

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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skooks @skookses.bsky.social · 4d

every day i read something new that makes me want to walk into the sea www.levernews.com/bankificatio...

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taber @kvetch.gay · 5d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 5d

UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Trump “Compact.” We, at least, remain committed to the historic values and mission of the university.

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and
WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 5d

This is a political scandal that threatens the DeSantis family and the sitting Florida Attorney General. And the hot seat just got a lot hotter:

Grand jury summoned in Hope Florida criminal probe
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Grand jury summoned in Hope Florida criminal probe

In recent weeks, the State Attorney’s Office for the 2nd Judicial Circuit has issued subpoenas for witnesses to appear before a grand jury.

www.miamiherald.com

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of the Haitian militia leader under the Duvalier dictatorship ... who sold Haitian blood plasma to the US (no one could say exactly where he got the blood but thousands of people were dead/missing).

Earned him nickname "Vampire of the Caribbean."

He received asylum and died in Miami.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Danny Rivero @danielrivero.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow will definitely be a day to watch. Feels like pressure is building for people like Meloni, who doesn't want to deal with Gaza, but the public keeps forcing her to do something about it.

She even sent a ship to "protect" Italians on the flotilla, and now this. Makes her look weak af.

elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been following Palestine protests for a long time. I could be wrong, but this feels different. Protests in Italy are big and numerous. General strike already declared for Friday.

Loads of protests planned in the UK.

Spain, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Sweden either already happening or planned.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: Federal workers had their out-of-office replies changed to an unhinged and probably illegal partisan screed; when they changed them to neutral language, the replies were changed yet again. @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social have the details:

Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

www.wired.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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