Mario Ariza
@marioarizabaez
#Dominicano. Florida reporter for @propublica. Author of Disposable City. Order: http://tiny.cc/dyedkz
Personal update: thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @FloodlightNews as an investigative reporter. I‘ll be writing about corporate influence on climate progress. So excited to be working with @emilyhholden, @mirandacgreen, @SaraSneath and @schilukuri1!!
Six years later...and we are still fighting for the unsealing of court records in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
News The Second Circuit orders a federal judge to review whether more records should be UNSEALED in Virginia Guiffre v. Ghislaine Maxwell, a lawsuit with a giant footprint in the Epstein saga. Unrelated to the grand jury minutes matter. What timing! Full opinion here…
District court judges voted today against keeping Alina Habba in her role as interim US attorney. Instead of abiding by that, AG Pan Bondi announces she's firing the woman who would've replaced her. A Watergate-style attack on the rule of law.
.@USAttyHabba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant. Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just…
Mom can you pick me up, I don’t want to a part of PJM anymore
It's weird there's more outrage about CBS canceling Stephen Colbert's show than the 60 Minutes settlement.
A foundation started in late 2023 with no known track record & run by a top aide to Miami's city manager has collected more than $900K from Miami-Dade-- apparently bc it's a pass-thru for tax dollars the county spends on Tropical Park's CountryFest miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
An oddity about Miami-Dade using a non-profit to pay for tax-funded CountryFest expenses is that the two A3 Foundation invoices I have that were processed by the county show very round numbers. Should reimbursements for vendors result in such clean totals?
"The US hiring slowdown is taking a toll on recruiting firms, with two filing for bankruptcy in recent weeks," per Bloomberg.
In most of the world day-to-day weather variations are still much larger than long-term global warming. As a result, both daily record highs and daily record lows remain common. However as the world warms, new daily record highs consistently far outnumber new daily record lows.
In Broward #Florida, where deputies failed to run into the Parkland building to save kids, now 10 deputies face termination over the handling of domestic violence calls and a Tamarac triple murder. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
EPSTEIN LATEST: In light of what we released last week from my staff's investigation, I'm handing Trump's DOJ a ready-made case with seven different lines of investigation for them to follow the money on Jeffrey Epstein.
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Calls Bondi's bluff. Read: newrepublic.com/article/198247…
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed in conflict, others were wounded or made prisoner, but there is no record of us ever having to watch our colleagues starving to death.”
“We’re starving”: A Gaza journalist’s dispatch from the midst of starvation mohammedmhawish.com/p/were-starvin…
It's disappointing major weather media groups that exist off NOAA/NWS data have been deafeningly silent about federal staffing hits and proposed cuts to NOAA. No letters of support. No news reporting on their detrimental effects to forecasting. Just glaring editorial omission. 🧵
MORE NEWS --> Last year, Sen Ron Wyden sought to subpoena the release of Epstein financial transactions on file with the Treasury Department. He asked GOP senators to join him in backing a subpoena. None of them agreed, a Wyden aide tells me: newrepublic.com/article/198247…
Despite the Trump administration’s public pronouncements that it has hired enough wildland firefighters, documents obtained by ProPublica show a high vacancy rate as fire season intensifies. propublica.org/article/forest… @abestreep
The detention of two Italian nationals at “Alligator Alcatraz” is sparking criticism from lawmakers in Italy, who are calling on their country’s conservative government to do more to secure their repatriation. wapo.st/44KFivP
An unprecedented moment.
NEW: The DOJ has fired Desiree Leigh Grace as the newly appointed U.S. attorney for New Jersey, hours after judges in the state chose her over President Trump's pick, Alina Habba. abcnews.go.com/US/former-trum…
The reason I took up the case is because a woman filed a lawsuit against Mr. Trump alleging he raped her when she was a teenager. At the time, (2016) Mr. Trump was running for president of the United States -- and had nominated Acosta for a top cabinet position. Acosta was the…
"The rapid sequence of events raises the prospect of yet another confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary."
Breaking News: The U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey was thrown into chaos as Pam Bondi intervened to keep Alina Habba in the job. nyti.ms/4517c5q
.@GovRonDeSantis — long accused of questionable spending — wants his DOGE team to do on-site inspections/audits in Dem-controlled Broward County. But Broward claims his team couldn't even accurately calculate its taxes... By @aglorios, @AmandaNicRosa: tampabay.com/news/florida-p…
FDEM is now claiming "proprietary information" w/detention contracts. "They didn't correct anything," Eskamani says. "All they did was upload just the cover [sheet], which has no info. There are no trade secrets—only government grift to no-bid contracts." reason.com/2025/07/22/all…