dan sinker
@dansinker.com
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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Never shopping at Home Depot again in my entire life.
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Never shopping at Home Depot again in my entire life.
Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
A neighbor wrote to say there was a coyote sitting in our yard pre-dawn this morning and I’ve never felt so like legit actual hashtag-blessed. Come and stay as long as you like, old friend. As long as you like.
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A neighbor wrote to say there was a coyote sitting in our yard pre-dawn this morning and I’ve never felt so like legit actual hashtag-blessed. Come and stay as long as you like, old friend. As long as you like.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
OK, this has nothing to do with the question but why is Matt Gaetz creeping over in the half-frame?
Q: “Does the Department of War plan on pursuing any sort of legal action against the Washington Post?”
DOD Spox Kingsley Wilson: “It is frankly disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false…It is disgraceful that they call themselves journalists.”
DOD Spox Kingsley Wilson: “It is frankly disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false…It is disgraceful that they call themselves journalists.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
OK, this has nothing to do with the question but why is Matt Gaetz creeping over in the half-frame?
To be fair, it is absolutely mind-blowing to me as well that the WWE does not have a physical hall of fame. They love money and blowing their own dick, like how have they not built something eons ago. That said, I would not include that fact in a book.
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To be fair, it is absolutely mind-blowing to me as well that the WWE does not have a physical hall of fame. They love money and blowing their own dick, like how have they not built something eons ago. That said, I would not include that fact in a book.
literally nobody outside a small circle of sickos cares about this story and is certainly not going shell out actual american dollars for it.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
“It can be hard to compete with the likes of Britney Spears and Emily Henry for attention and sales.”
Does scandal sell? Not for Olivia Nuzzi’s book so far | CNN
“We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door,” said one bookseller.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
literally nobody outside a small circle of sickos cares about this story and is certainly not going shell out actual american dollars for it.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
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Today! @maureenjohnsonbooks.com goes to the movies, @dansinker.com goes to the North Pole, and America goes to hell. It's a new Says Who! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/gar...
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Today! @maureenjohnsonbooks.com goes to the movies, @dansinker.com goes to the North Pole, and America goes to hell. It's a new Says Who! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/gar...
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US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
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So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
The good news is Republicans in Congress are shitting their pants right about now
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
Whistle up Twin Cities.
The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching an “intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region."
Report: ICE headed to Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants • Minnesota Reformer
The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching an “intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali im...
minnesotareformer.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Whistle up Twin Cities.
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Your lich got drip like this?
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Your lich got drip like this?
the hand-aid thing is just gonna remain an eternal mystery huh.
December 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
the hand-aid thing is just gonna remain an eternal mystery huh.
@prisonculture.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout in your newsletter, appreciate it so much.
December 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
@prisonculture.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout in your newsletter, appreciate it so much.
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still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space
Except for that one time, which was definitely someone else's call.
Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Except for that one time, which was definitely someone else's call.
Set your cider ad in Cooper Black, all lowercase, like this one did in 1926 and I will be sold every time.
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Set your cider ad in Cooper Black, all lowercase, like this one did in 1926 and I will be sold every time.
This Giving Tuesday, considering tossing some cash to OpenNews, the journalism org I founded in 2011. OpenNews has evolved a lot since back in the day, with new & amazing leaders, but remains a crucial connector among people doing vital work in newsrooms. opennews.networkforgood.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This Giving Tuesday, considering tossing some cash to OpenNews, the journalism org I founded in 2011. OpenNews has evolved a lot since back in the day, with new & amazing leaders, but remains a crucial connector among people doing vital work in newsrooms. opennews.networkforgood.com
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Just want to call out this incredible move by the Guardian to embed a year on their social sharing graphic so it's very clear that something is not new reporting. Should be standard operating procedure.
December 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just want to call out this incredible move by the Guardian to embed a year on their social sharing graphic so it's very clear that something is not new reporting. Should be standard operating procedure.
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No one loves Chicago like Chicago. ❤️
I tell people from other cities this & they don't believe me, but it's common for folks to get Chicago flag tattoos here.
It's a good city.
I tell people from other cities this & they don't believe me, but it's common for folks to get Chicago flag tattoos here.
It's a good city.
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
No one loves Chicago like Chicago. ❤️
I tell people from other cities this & they don't believe me, but it's common for folks to get Chicago flag tattoos here.
It's a good city.
I tell people from other cities this & they don't believe me, but it's common for folks to get Chicago flag tattoos here.
It's a good city.
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there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
August 10, 2024 at 3:21 PM
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
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Not sure the "we're totally responsible for all the illegal murderings, except this one, which people are upset about, so we didn't order that one" is going to stick.
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Not sure the "we're totally responsible for all the illegal murderings, except this one, which people are upset about, so we didn't order that one" is going to stick.