Dan Sinker

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

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2025-04-02 02:07:19

Wisconsin fought and clawed to get out from under the thumb of the Kochs and Uihleins who had bought and paid for gerrymandered Republican dominance for years. And then another rich motherfucker showed up and the whole state said not today.

2025-03-26 13:17:11

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”
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2025-03-26 13:03:05

Publishing screenshots of the entire groupchat all the way to including the entire chat membership list is the journalistic equivalent of “Fuck me? Fuck YOU.”

2025-03-25 23:12:00

The funniest thing about all this to me is I’ve WRITTEN for the Atlantic and nobody looped the EIC into our chats, inadvertently or otherwise.

2025-03-22 23:21:27

My day job is to help run a search for a fellowship program that has always brought in some of the most amazing, creative, and righteous people I have ever known. And this year the search is being completely overrun with near-identical madlib answers generated with ChatGPT. It’s so disheartening.

2025-03-17 15:37:12

This is going to ruin the tour.
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2025-03-15 17:51:29

You can buy a blind box of my childhood.
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2025-03-14 17:42:37

so let’s say that by some miracle, Schumer doesn’t have the votes and this thing fails. He’s now 100% put the heat on Dems for a government shutdown, where yesterday it would have fallen on Republicans.

2025-03-13 20:28:19

the grocery store moved everything around and this is going to be my Joker moment

2025-03-11 21:10:46

For people obsessed with masculinity and “alpha energy,” the car show on the White House driveway was the weakest-looking shit I may have ever witnessed. Just two weak people standing there, terrified of what’s to come.

2025-03-11 16:07:41

he should just sign an executive order saying stocks can’t go down and then, voila, problem solved.

2025-03-05 02:08:03

Hot dog I’m not watching this shit.

2025-03-03 01:42:47

These motherfuckers are so insulated in their weird little world that JD Vance thought that going skiing in Vermont was gonna work out for him.

2025-02-28 14:38:07

Happy Economic Blackout to all who celebrate (you should celebrate)

2025-02-28 09:09:51

It’s that time again. Welcome back to Insomnia Club, I’m not glad we’re here.

2025-02-28 03:20:29

Not going to tell you what to do or anything, but if you sign up for my newsletter, tomorrow you’ll probably get some writing about the Gilmore Girls. https://dansinker.com/follow/

2025-02-26 02:49:55

I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

2025-02-24 01:07:03

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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2025-02-21 14:47:39

I know white house reporters are currently cowering for access, but it would be nice for someone to ask about Elon’s continued and ever-more-public drug abuse in the context of its threat to national security.

2025-02-20 19:25:19

Just got a cocaine brick of TRYING patches delivered. Help me out and get some! https://shop.dansinker.com/products/trying-patch
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2025-02-14 23:33:33

Just went to Costco for the first time and feel like I might die

2025-02-13 01:05:42

I’m just listening to Hoover’s “Electrolux” on loop rn. Exactly the right foreboding vibes for this moment in time.

2025-02-11 00:09:57

Well, my fascism coal mine canary just died.
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2025-02-10 03:44:51

Just remembered back in the day when Philly did this.
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2025-02-06 22:53:40

ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who’s who among Musk’s little fash goons https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/

2025-01-21 21:01:18

No time for bullshit in my inbox today.
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2025-01-21 16:12:19

Apple’s Tim Cook might be the smartest of all of the tech oligarchs because he was there but didn’t sit in the lineup and so he’s absent from all the photographs while still just as shitty as the rest.

2025-01-19 22:07:38

I just keep writing pithy little posts and deleting them and then writing new little jokes and deleting them and then just staring into the middle distance for a while and then trying again
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2025-01-19 20:00:43

As a parent of a Gen Z kid, I can tell you that their whole entire lives they’ve seen the government put them last. Guns, covid, student loans, cost-of-living, it’s always their gen that has gotten fucked.
This TikTok ban vividly reinforces what they already know.

2025-01-19 13:08:34

The best time to start building a little spot for yourself on the internet independent of platforms was yesterday. The second best time is right fucking now.

2025-01-17 00:18:16

Inauguration shoes just arrived.
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2025-01-16 21:34:27

Thinking a lot about how for those of us of a certain age, the people who taught us it was OK to be different are all leaving this earth and it feels so desperately lonely.

2025-01-16 00:51:02

So like the tiktok ban just seems like a collosally stupid idea, poorly executed, and benefitting basically no one. Absolute A+ job all around.

2025-01-12 10:25:23

Sometimes I lie awake and think about these headlines and sometimes I just lie awake.
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2025-01-10 20:28:57

I mean I gotta hand it to them, the weeklong Mark Zuckerberg: Shitbag tour rollout was flawless

2025-01-09 00:37:05

Yesterday I wrote about getting off Threads and how we all need to define the lines we won’t cross now that every tech exec has bent the knee to Trump. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-01-07-threads/
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2025-01-08 04:45:29

Hope the LA Times is being sure to print the fire’s point of view too.

2025-01-08 02:18:30

After Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that he was folding to Donald Trump and the far right, I can’t stick around on Threads. Leaving Twitter was hard, but this is easy.
Read “Pulling the Threads” on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-01-07-threads/

2025-01-07 09:58:30

Made it a week into the new year before calling to order the first meeting of Insomnia Club for 2025.

2025-01-06 15:25:02

Four years later the only person at the top to have seen any real repercussions from the entire 2020 election denial movement is Rudy, which is simultaneously an outrage, hilarious, and sad. Like they all met up and said he was gonna be the fall guy while he’s still waiting for the calvery to come.

2025-01-03 14:45:06

The first small step in making a better internet for each other is starting to establish a presence there that isn’t owned by a platform. Separate your self from Meta and Twitter and Substack and own your presence. Is it as easy? No, but it’s worth it.

2024-12-26 09:16:52

Ah yes, the familiar chime of 3:00 AM can only mean one thing: welcome to Insomnia Club!

2024-12-25 10:27:46

How about a little holiday Insomnia Club, as a treat.

2024-12-25 04:09:54

Fists with your toes.

2024-12-24 00:34:09

Going to attempt to not work for the next few days, definitely not my strong suit.

2024-12-23 15:54:34

Today’s the last day I’ll be shipping stickers & patches from my shop until the 26th, so get those last-minute orders in! https://shop.dansinker.com/
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2024-12-23 14:26:34

The death penalty is barbaric and this is an inarguably good thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/biden-commutes-37-death-sentences.html
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2024-12-20 15:25:11

I think about the ending of Roger Ebert’s 2004 review of M Night Shyamalan’s The Village on a regular basis. It is a perfect piece of writing. https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-village-2004
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2024-12-20 00:33:53

The day after September 11th, we got a threatening voicemail at the Punk Planet office. It propelled us to try and make an issue that could capture the moment.
Read “Here Comes the Argument: Punk Planet, Year Eight” on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2024-12-19-ppy8/

2024-12-19 22:37:33

Between the Amazon strikes, the CEO assassination, and Elon Musk robber-baroning his way to power, there’s some real late-1800s energy in the air right now.

2024-12-18 22:17:46

Absolutely love that we have a ketamine-fueled shadow president with infinite money puppetmastering the government via tweet. Just love this for us.

2024-12-13 22:20:14

Watching Peter Theil’s sputtering condemnation or reading the new United Healthcare CEO’s op-ed, it’s ASTOUNDING to me that even they are starting with “look, we know the system is bad and needs fixing.” This feels like a real, actual shift of the overton window on this. It took an assassination.

2024-12-12 16:57:36

I’m in a hotel that costs many hundreds of dollars a night and this is the shower head placement.
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2024-12-09 23:50:53

Definitely think that there’s nothing more indicitive of the desperation of right now than throwing all your hopes behind a CEO killer.

2024-12-09 17:01:27

who fucking snitched???

2024-12-09 03:39:06

Right now you’re probably looking for gifts for others (and maybe yourself), so I thought I’d pull together a list of all the things that I’ve got for sale through my site, my pods, or elsewhere.
Read “Merchandise Keeps Us in Line” at my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2024-12-08-stuff-for-sale/

2024-12-06 02:28:27

The NYPD’s budget is $5.4 billion and they can’t find a guy on a bike.

2024-11-29 10:23:17

Welcome to post-holiday Insomnia Club!

2024-11-27 16:39:22

If you are traveling this week, consider listeing to Rebel Spirit. 10 incredible episodes about how change really happens. Hilarious and maddening and really, really good. I mean I helped make it so I’m biased (but it is). https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rebel-spirit/id1752673109

2024-11-24 04:29:48

Was at the library today. They are just the best spaces: free and open to everyone, no questions or judgement. No wonder the fascists hate them.

2024-11-22 03:20:31

It’s genuinely stunning just how much the post-Twitter landscape has changed in the last two weeks. Y’all it was a long, lonely time in the wilderness. So glad to see so many of you again.

2024-11-21 18:09:46

Well, JD clearly nailed his one job yesterday.
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2024-11-21 15:21:40

Current status.
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2024-11-21 03:31:52

Let’s get back to when the message was Republicans were creepy weirdos who wanted to look at your junk before you used the bathroom.

2024-11-21 01:22:40

doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/

2024-11-19 14:06:11

Thinking about how as a disaffected youth, going to the record store to buy pissed-off records meant taking two trains and walking forever and how many human-level interactions were involved and how, ultimately, that probablty changed me for the better more than the records.

2024-11-18 14:47:24

People real quick to declare a winner when really we should be pushing for interoperability between platforms and protocols. Single platform dominance is the wrong thing to wish for.

2024-11-15 09:23:53

*bangs gavel* insomnia club is called to order.

2024-11-13 20:47:51

OK Matt Gaetz as attorney general might have broken me.

2024-11-12 19:57:39

The last two years without Twitter have been rough in terms of being able to build & promote things independently. Now that things are (maybe) starting to come back, consider subscribing to my writing. Free and not on fucking Substack: https://dansinker.com/follow/

2024-11-12 13:23:53

Starter Packs are one of those innovations that feel so completely obvious now that they’re around. Will be a day-one feature in social software moving forward.

2024-11-09 17:06:16

This Airheads in my kid’s Lunchable just got a gig as a NYT columnist.
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2024-11-08 15:24:19

I know it’s only a tiny slice of a shit pie, but locking good reporting behind paywalls for the last decade+ has been a fucking disaster

2024-11-07 16:30:28

Taylor’s analysis of how the right has built such a powerful, well-funded, multifaceted media ecosystem and how replicating that on the left is structurally impossible (or close to it) is very good. https://www.usermag.co/p/why-democrats-wont-build-their-own
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2024-10-29 00:06:00

TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND SUBSCRIPTIONS CANCELLED HOLY SHIT. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5168416/washington-post-bezos-endorsement-president-cancellations-resignations

2024-10-25 20:09:41

Dear editors getting their op-eds banned. Just do this.
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2024-10-24 02:45:32

Well that should do it.
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2024-10-22 20:17:15

So excited for November 6 when these fuckers stop emailing every five seconds.

2024-10-16 03:26:10

So did Beto just disappear?

2024-09-20 19:49:15

A fun day reporting for Rebel Spirit.
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2024-09-03 12:40:53

Rebel Spirit, the podcast I've been working on with Akilah Hughes for the last YEAR, is out today! It's the story of Akilah's attempt to change her high school's racist mascot and all the people we meet and history we learn along the way. It's the best reporting project I've ever done and I am so excited that you can finally start this journey TODAY.
Out on all podcast platforms, here's a Spotify link. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2EUTtUFZKe3rJEjFvseVOZ?si=e8JmDYHXRbqKUYuQSBzD4Q

2024-08-30 02:27:41

Does anyone have a Framework laptop and do you like it?

2024-05-30 21:40:44

All 34 counts in the shittiest of the four cases, just absolutely hilarious

2024-05-30 21:40:36

All 34 counts in the shittiest of the four cases, just absolutely hilarious

2024-05-10 23:10:10

This week I gave a talk at the 11ty International Symposium on Making the Web Real Good. It was about Question Mark, Ohio and about how the web is still a place of endless possibility. I've adapted the talk into a blog post for you.
Read "Building a Town that Doesn't Exist" on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2024-05-10-doesntexist/

2024-05-08 02:42:46

This Thursday I'm going to be talking about Question Mark, Ohio and building things on the web at the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good. Full schedule looks awesome. Come watch! It's free! https://conf.11ty.dev/#schedule

2024-04-15 02:25:45

I ended the indictment.fyi newsletter tonight and I feel a little guilty about it, so as penance, maybe, or out of a feeling that if I've taken something out of the world maybe I should also put something back in, here's three things I've been particularly excited about lately. Here's three for flinching.
Read "Three For Flinching" on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/2024-04-14-three-for-flinching/

2024-02-27 23:34:00

Pretty excited this news is finally out. I'm joining @npub1q96…7htg in helping the Chicago Reader get their web experience as awesome as the rest of their reporting.
The Reader was my first gig out of college. It's nice to come home.
https://chicagoreader.com/reader/press-releases/brian-boyer-dan-sinker-product-development-joey-mandeville-grants/

2023-12-13 17:55:31

Excited to be the voice of *checks notes* the mineral tantalum in the new episode of RIP Corp. Thanks for bringing me in, @npub1lpx…htk5 https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum

2023-11-09 03:27:33

here's me from another lifetime.
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2023-10-27 14:29:20

One year ago today Elon Musk walked through the doors of Twitter and proceeded to spend a year lighting it on fire. Unfortunately, it didn't die. Not completely at least. I wrote about the last year, how it's sad, and how nothing will ever replace it. https://dansinker.com/posts/twitter365/

2023-08-15 03:04:35

A reminder that https://indictment.fyi will not be updated this week because I'm dropping my kid at college.

2023-08-14 14:38:28

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@npub1c35…9pmh @npub1xxt…f2tp @npub1hvd…9sq9 thanks, I hate it.

2023-08-03 23:04:42

Trump was arraigned today and I wrote it up for https://indictment.fyi/

2023-08-02 01:13:03

I just wrote up today's indictment news in the middle of a completely bonkers rain storm, so I've got that going for me. Anyway, https://indictment.fyi is updated with today's big news!

2023-07-29 15:14:02

Episode 14 of Question Mark Ohio wrapped up yesterday and trust me when I tell you this weekend is one to pay attention to in town. https://questionmarkohio.com/episodes/fourteen/

2023-07-28 00:31:18

New indictment news today across a bunch of different investigations, so https://indictment.fyi has been updated.

2023-07-12 03:05:11

It's been a minute since I last updated my blog. But that hasn't been because I haven't been doing stuff. In fact, quite the opposite.
Read "Best Laid Plans" on my site: https://dansinker.com/posts/july/

2023-07-08 22:00:51

For the last three months, the novelist Joe Meno and I have been writing the story of Question Mark, Ohio, a town where things are disappearing and nothing is what it seems.
The story has gotten big and bonkers and today we're launching a readers guide to get up and running easily. Episode breakdowns, character lists, and links to everything (so far).
Get lost in Question Mark, Ohio.
https://questionmarkohio.com

2023-06-08 00:22:42

Here the deal: if Trump is indicted any time between now and next Wednesday, I'm tapping out. I'm at literal actual Disney World with my family and the free job I do documenting shitbaggery has got to give.