Danny Rivero
I like digging up dirt, figuratively and literally. Public radio in Miami. 🇨🇺🇺🇸. Pro-Puerto Rico.🏴
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- Reposted by Danny RiveroFollowing the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."
- The markets are good and it's a much less-guilty way of eating meat if meat ethics are your thing. In this case the market is serving a true ecological purpose. But the markets are also pretty small. Some people do hunt iguana meat for real tho btw! I did it a few years ago with Hondurans.
- Reposted by Danny RiveroWOW on Pretti's denial of medical treatment "I informed the ICE agents that I am a physician, and I asked to assess the victim. At first, the ICE agents wouldn't let me through. ... But none of the ICE agents who were near the victim were performing CPR, ... None of the agents were helping him."
- Getting to the point where the only real way to test boundaries of what's happening is for people to start open carrying en masse (totally legal in the vast majority of the country) and just hope and wait and see what the feds decide to do about it
- Reposted by Danny RiveroThere was a huge dump of documents related to the American Association of University Professor's lawsuit against the government for abducting students. Among them is a memo March 21, 2025 memo from State Dept. that verifies Rümeysa Öztürk, a student at Tufts, was detained only for writing an op-ed.
- It's the decentralized aspect of this resistance that is the most promising. People are realizing "leaders" will not show up, so it's up to all of us.
- New from me: Florida has escalated its battle on sociology studies. The state has now written a new syllabus and issued a new textbook for an intro course - which professors say grossly misrepresent the entire field by deleting all mention of race, gender and more. www.wlrn.org/government-p...
- Reposted by Danny RiveroBREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
- To put a point on it: The DSA will be the first in line fighting for unions and workers in the US. And then its International Committee will stan for a bunch of countries like China, Nicaragua and Cuba where independent labor unions are literally not allowed to exist.
- The DSA's international committee is probably the most self-destructive political operation I have ever seen. Even for a lot of people who like their other (domestic) policies the international stances and stupid alliances will keep rational, principled people away.
- Reposted by Danny RiveroImmediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
- Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
- Hard to describe how out of touch you would have to be to write the words quoted below. Cuban-American Trumpistas are for the most part fully converted lifers. Maduro arrest ust breathed new life into it. They will happily cheer Cubans getting deported. It's fine. The things these ears have heard.
- Reposted by Danny RiveroHe goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.
- NEW from me on the thing everyone is talking about: What does the post-Venezuelan oil reality hold for Cuba? I got a range of opinions, hopes, fears, etc.. about the current political moment. www.wlrn.org/government-p...
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- Never in all my life did I think I would see Rachel Maddow posting something from CrimeThinc
- Reposted by Danny RiveroDanish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
- Reposted by Danny RiveroFight and help win a world war. Establish a global order that cements your national power for 80 years. Blow it all up. What am I missing?
- Reposted by Danny RiveroCóry Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
- Not kidding that the most interesting things in the country on education are about to go down in Virginia. There's a whole agenda laid out.
- Reposted by Danny Riveroevery single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
- Reposted by Danny RiveroICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings
- West Palm Beach started a specialized police task force in 2019. After that, people ended up dead. Police insurance payouts exploded. And miraculously, indictments followed. My colleague has some incredible reporting on the rise and fall of the GHOST unit. www.wlrn.org/wlrn-investi...
- It's really sad because it's clear she wants what is good for Venezuela but in an attempt to appease Trump's ego she has lowered herself to performing pony tricks
- #BREAKING: Venezuela's Machado says she 'presented' her Nobel Prize to Trump
- I independently had this very thought tonight
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- Reposted by Danny RiveroSeizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
- Reposted by Danny RiveroIf the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+
- Reposted by Danny RiveroUnions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
- My transcription software today translated Lincoln Diaz-Balart as "Lincoln, the Hezbollah" Working on a Cuba story right now, obviously
- Always remember that when we praise journalists that operate under dictatorships, they call the regime a regime and they drop the 'view from nowhere' pretense
- This piece is very well reported and written. It’s clear-eyed, precise and gives important context. And yet it’s a great illustration that there’s this fundamental, unbridgeable formal constraint that makes it essentially impossible to plainly call this what it is. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
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- Trump posted that he likes the idea of Rubio being the next "leader" of Cuba. This is very hard - unlike Venezuela there is no real opposition or organized parties/ groups in Cuba. We don't have in-roads with factions inside the regime. The Cuban opp is in Miami. So - a day 1 legitimacy crisis.
- Not "most." About a third.
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- I cannot explain how much the US needs to stay out of it. There's a long history of people doing YEARS of work to overthrow a dictatorship and the US swoops in at the very last minute allowing it to claim legitimacy in directing what happens after. Let the Persians finish it themselves.
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- He shoots her and then calls her a "fucking bitch"
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- I was ruminating last night and this is my feeling too. Whether you like or don't like a specific thing, it's not about a specific thing. The geopolitical, "rules based," cooperative order that came after WWII is genuinely drawing to a close right now. We're entering new territory.
- Reposted by Danny RiveroWe've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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- The regimes in Iran and to a lesser extent, Cuba, are both on the verge of actual collapse and I am absolutely here for it and I will not entertain any suggestion that they are actually the good guys
- Reposted by Danny RiveroAnother image that sums up the protest.
- NEW: Miami agrees to hand the Tower Theater back to Miami Dade College New mayor Eileen Higgins sponsored the item in her first meeting as city mayor. “We’re excited that this might mean a new direction,” a local filmmaker told me. www.wlrn.org/arts-culture...
- Reminder that Texas, Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee are jointly forming their own higher ed accreditation body precisely so they can do things like censor syllabi and not be scrutinized for it
- "Western culture"
- If Machado takes power she would likely be pressured out of sheer nationalism and embarrassment to reject outright direct rule by the US. More convenient for Trump to keep the baddies in power, let them rattle their nationalistic fervor without raised expectations + dangle bombs over their heads.
- It is all about spheres of influence - the belief that superpowers can do whatever they want to nearby smaller countries because they are within that sphere. Putin's worldview has been publicly vindicated by Trump, and we should expect more of the same in the Russian and Chinese neighborhoods.
- In the real world there is no such thing as "right" or "law" and the more these conversations treat those concepts as real things and not social constructs that are actively being torn down, the less it all makes sense. The US has just kicked off an era of raw power and f all that other noise.
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- Reposted by Danny RiveroMore astonishing public comments from Danish PM on Greenland: “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops, including NATO..."
- Trump is right. Cuba is extremely extremely extremely weak right now and that is without any military intervention. If I was a betting man I'd say the Cuban regime is in more danger of collapse than the regime in charge of Venezuela right now, and I am not kidding.
