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@dansinker.com

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I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 4d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 8h

Good pull

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 9h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

ICE Whistles packed and ready to go.

If you want to make your own kits, the Pisen Arts & Community House has PDFs you can download and links to whistles (though often sold out, so get creative) linktr.ee/pilsenartsco...

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10h

Pilsen Arts & Community House has PDFs of the zines and links to whistles. bsky.app/profile/dans...

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

Zines are via the Pilsen Arts and Community House, which also has links to whistles to order (tho often sold out, so hunt around) drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mo...

Resources for Whistle Warriors - Google Drive

drive.google.com

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

Thanks Mike!

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

Zines are via the Pilsen Arts and Community House, which also has links to whistles to order (tho often sold out, so hunt around) drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mo...

Resources for Whistle Warriors - Google Drive

drive.google.com

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

Thanks Hunter!!

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 11h

Full ICE whistle assembly line over here.

Assembling ICE whistle packs on a red table

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 13h

Get yers shop.dansinker.com

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 14h

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist.

A vibrant collage by Tony Fitzpatrick features a peregrine falcon with architectural elements and bold text related to Chicago.

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Capt. Jack Sharrow @sharrows.bsky.social · 21h

When we created this ride, it was supposed to be a joyous celebration of community. Since then kidnappings have increased substantially and vendors are terrified. We will not back down and our ride will continue in a way that keeps vendors safe. We take care of us. ✊🏽

Street vendor bike tour flyer

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h

Ah nice!

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h

Where at

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h

Just waiting on today's baggie delivery.

Piles of folded ICE whistle zines and a box of orange whistles

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 18h

Whistles are getting harder to come by!

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 19h

Yessss

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 19h

Saturday morning craft project

A red table is covered with numerous printed zines, in Spanish , about using whistles to warn about ICE and a pair of scissors

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 23h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Tamara Keel, but spooky @tamslick.bsky.social · 1d

The utter inability of legacy news media to be able to deal with being straight-up lied to is one of the primary drivers of this mess.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 1d

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

About time