Danny Rivero

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. bookshop.org/p/books/just...

Growing up (mostly pre-Columbine I guess) I only drew dead people and demons and bloodshed and (I think) I turned out just fine. You should see the panoramic poster I drew for an assignment on World War I.

There it is, the most racist thing I've seen in a long time. We don't have to go back to algebra and stuff. Literally go to any hospital or university system in the US and learn otherwise.

Top three cities are in Florida. Keep that in mind for statewide elections next week.

The funny thing about the First Amendment and libel is that you can basically say anything whatsoever in a political context while running for office. Things news outlets would never say, or things they would couch with denials and casting doubt, politicians can just say the whole thing.

I cannot wait for the Lula biopics/ documentaries at some point

One benefit of holding leaders accountable for crimes is that if Flávio Bolsonaro tries to overturn this election, he knows exactly where he’d end up. In prison, next to his father.

Incredible day for democracy

My god good things are possible in this world

Student protests in Serbia have been going on for two years already. But tomorrow the students get the new elections they have been calling for.

Lula's biography is just a truly insane and empowering story. What is probably the last chapter will start to be written tomorrow.

In Cuba (independent, not state media) Rubio is regularly compared to the Spanish officer who invented the modern concentration camp and killed hundreds of thousands of Cubans in order to "break" them into submission.

literally illegal

Florida voters, this is an excellent explanation and analysis of Amendment 2. I'll be voting no. Miami voters: were you, like me, unaware that there is a commercial primate breeding operation, Worldwide Primates, located in the Redland?

The US used to be better at hiding the ball

I recently interviewed Erik Donalds, Byron Donalds' wife and (practically) running mate about a broad range of topics Immigration, the centralization of power in Florida to the state and away from local governments, Live Local, school vouchers www.wlrn.org/government-p...

As the WLRN reporter points out, the substance of the leaked grand jury finding—that $10 million was "misappropriated as part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities"—is contained within the FL appeals court opinion, a public record, that ordered the grand jury report "expunged."

Republicans in Florida are threatening to jail media outlets that talk about the biggest scandal the GOP here has faced in years - the Hope Florida scandal. They argue a leaked grand jury report is "contraband" www.wlrn.org/government-p...

It's really weird how it's now normal to have foreign leaders issuing endorsements for US races.. and for US officials to endorse foreign leaders before their elections. A decade ago I was pretty sure this was criminal activity, and it never happened.

This all started because Jared and Ivanka wanted to build a resort in Albania. Congrats, you're officially Marie Antoinettes

I am sorry, which company is this? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

" A judge of Brazil’s top electoral court ruled Thursday that Meta must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff." www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

I did a long interview about the proliferation of police drones, what they're using them for--and importantly, what's keeping them from being armed. The answer? In most places, not much. Companies are noticing this lack of regulation and are starting to roll out plans for selling weaponized drones.

How utterly embarrassing for the UK, a joke of a country or "kingdom" or whatever. What complicit feckless from the government to not put a stop to it.

Cowardice and he's very wrong on the law too

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The End Of The Universal Internet The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/13/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-end-of-the-universal-internet/

Connecting everything to the internet was always stupid, but nowadays you can have a viable business model by saying 'my product is not connected to the internet'

I talked with DNC chair Ken Martin this morning about Democrats' chances in Florida: Democrats are ready to 'shock the world' in Florida, says DNC chair www.wlrn.org/government-p...

Call me crazy but I think the rise of officially sanctioned piracy on the high seas in the name of law enforcement is just bad, no matter who the target of one operation is

After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.

On the other hand it might be good that people will have to get used to telling military officers to stand down. It's good practice for whenever we might have to order them to stand down under very different circumstances.

Yes, it does, IDF. You denied killing U.S. reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 until evidence forced an admission. Then you murdered hundreds of journalists in Gaza and denied it all over again. Want credibility? Let international press into the Strip.

Socialism means woke, and woke means Democrat, and Democrat is anything I disagree with, and if you disagree with me you are socialist

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

It's really something that one of the most obscenely wealthy countries in the world, with all the offensive and defensive tech short of a nuclear bomb, is unable to defend itself from the ragtag Houthis movement.

On election night 2016 a Trump fan at the Tampa bar I was in pointed to blue spots on the electoral map, saying: "We're gonna bomb them, we're gonna bomb them..." I'll never forget that. Now the president is playing the same dangerous game (even tho San Diego is a conservative military town!!)

Just straight up criminal activity

There is something so otherworldly about listening to old radio broadcasts of historical events. I have an entire vinyl of the broadcasts of when JFK was assassinated, and for someone who was not around when it happened it was utterly visceral. Audio archives matter!!!

I read a lot of the documents behind this case a few weeks ago before the Miami court hearing, which unfortunately I had to miss. It is an incredibly simple and yet novel case, actually, and some of the biggest gun attorneys in the US are on it. TLDR the feds can't ban non-citizen voting.

This is insane.