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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Last Notes npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I wrote about Patrick Stewart and Star Trek: The Next Generation and leaving home and insisting that reality is reality no matter the cost. https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-10-30-tng/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Hit the “what the fuck am I doing” stage of writing a book. Author pals, this is survivable right? npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Brains are dumb. I spent literally weeks, maybe even months, beating myself up about writing about how social sucks. “Nobody wants to read this” “It’s self indulgent bullshit” etc etc etc. Finally just put the thing out, and like 10,000 people have enthusiastically read it in like 24 hours. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I wrote about how social sucks now. https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-09-23-stopped/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker The new global forever stamps are cool as hell. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Happy May Day from Chicago. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Tomorrow! Chicago! Come hang out with me and Joe. @ 12:30 Columbia College 618 S Michigan 3rd floor. Will be wild. https://allium.colum.edu/readings-and-events/storytelling-week-featuring-joe-meno-and-dan-sinker npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker “We accidentally killed all the folks we’d want to lead Iran” is 100% the girlfriend-in-Canada for not actually having a succession plan. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Just had to scrap a whole blog post highlighting a bunch of rad signpainters because Instagram doesn’t allow inline playback of reels, instead the “embed” function is basically just a gigantic box with a link back to Instagram. We used to have a functional web and we gave it all away for nothing. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker It’s endlessly funny to me that the one guy these folks have is Kid Rock. That’s it. That’s the whole bench. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Today the crew of weirdo printers that I call the whistle goblins passed A HALF MILLION whistles printed and shipped. I wrote about how we got there and how you can start printing whistles yourself. https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-02-08-whistle-goblins/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Want to support the vast collective of whistlemaking goblins that have printed and shipped over 300,000 whistles across the US for free, and want to do it in a way that doesn't involve sending Jeff Bezos money? Buy a Polymaker gift card to be sent to [email protected] and we'll get filament to the horde. https://us.polymaker.com/products/polymaker-gift-card?variant=41009390223417 npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Absolutely fucking not. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I tried to wrestle a lot of my brain-on-fire into a little essay about Minneapolis and feeling abandoned and hope. https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21-all-we-have/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I wrote about how from Chicago to Minneapolis to wherever is next, more and more it's very clear that we are all we have. And maybe that's enough. https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21-all-we-have/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Fists with your toes. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Terrorizing communities at the holidays is the only proper frame of this latest Border Patrol incursion into the Chicago area npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker They renamed the entire company around this. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Just a gentle reminder that holidays should not be stressful and you get to ensure and protect your joy however you need. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker The most heartening thing about right now is the propensity of my neighbors to run towards trouble npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Just spent nearly two hours in a line of cars to drop food off for families losing their SNAP benefits. Right now is a literal nightmare but it is incredible to see communities coming together. Everyone understands that the only ones to save us is us. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. 🖕🖕 npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Maybe there’s some 4D chess to starving 40 million Americans, doubling healthcare costs on another 20 million, and sending masked goons out on the streets to snatch and disappear an untold number more, but honestly I’m not seeing it. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker ICE has been cracking down hard across the vast expanse of the greater Chicago area, and I wrote a little bit about what you need to understand about what it’s like here now. Plus, I compiled some resources for locals to get alerts and whistles. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-24-understand/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker A problem with researching stuff from 100 years ago is that I get very easily distracted by all the ads in newspapers. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Full ICE whistle assembly line over here. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Yooooooooooooooooo. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-10-03-logan-square/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I wrote a post about visiting the last stamp store in Chicago and living a life that’s fun, but worthless. I really like this one, hope you do too. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-07-18-stampking/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Everything is a lot. Here are three places I’m escaping to, if only for a brief moment on the internet. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-07-11-three-escapes/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker “held court” is what they’re calling it now huh. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Picked a hell of a week for my mom to die. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Deploying ICE, the Border Patrol, the LAPD, the LA County Sheriffs, and now the National Guard and maybe the Marines over a small protest at a Home Depot is not the show of force they think it is. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker For more than a year, I’ve been writing essays about Punk Planet, the miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. All that time I’ve been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never get over it. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-30-ppy13/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Elderly woman sitting next to me on the plane with her screen text cranked up to max sending “DA POPE” to her entire address book. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker The good news for Chicago won’t stop. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I’m a few years when we’ve got the new Pope and JB’s president we are never gonna shut up ever. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Honestly, 15 friends is an unwieldy number of friends. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-04-26-indie-books/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Between Minecraft and Sinners can anyone remember this many people talking enthusiastically about the experience of seeing movies in movie theaters in the last 5 years? I can not. Like I said: I think movies are back. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker So Musk decimated staffing across the government, effectively shuttered multiple agencies, and ended most foreign aid, education, and science funding, while only trimming around $150B out of the budget??? Sounds like government was actually REMARKABLY efficient before he came along. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker “Tesla said Tuesday that its profits fell 71 percent in the first three months of the year” npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Clone Wars getting real real over here. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Everything is terrible but here is one thing that isn't: the Rebel Spirit podcast, a labor of incredible love from Akilah Hughes and me about trying to make real change in the face of history, is up for a Webby and I NEED your vote. ENDS TODAY. PLEASE VOTE. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I’m sorry they threw a what-themed wedding??? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/technology/amazon-sellers-china-tariffs.html npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker So now it is demonstrably cheaper to import fully assembled Chinese-manufactured electronics than the parts to assemble them here. These are deeply unserious people. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker I’m not going to read your “how to defeat fascism” post if it’s on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker 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.” npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Hot dog I’m not watching this shit. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker So like the tiktok ban just seems like a collosally stupid idea, poorly executed, and benefitting basically no one. Absolute A+ job all around. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker 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. npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker This investigation of cops all over the place reselling tens of thousands of guns on the sly over YEARS in basically full knowledge of the feds who won’t prosecute should perhaps be a bigger story? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-selling-restricted-guns-posties/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker doesn’t get much better than this 1997 guide to customizing your myspace profile. https://www.lissaexplains.com/myspace/ npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Getting up-to-speed on Question Mark, Ohio, the ambitious, sprawing story me and novelist Joe Meno are telling across the internet can feel daunting, we get it, which is why now you can always attend Story Time at the Question Mark Public Library and get caught up quickly. https://questionmarklibrary.info/#storytime npub1682nrfvwffssexh736rwmmdvznhftx4ep9860ww8lua0w7kzl20q3xaup6 Dan Sinker Debuted the Question Mark Public Library last night. A little love letter to libraries and librarians from me and Joe. https://questionmarklibrary.info/
