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dan sinker

@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 · 29/09/2026
Rebel Spirit Season 2 is up for a Signal award in the "Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact" category and I would LOVE if you would vote for @akilahhughes.com and me! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/09/2026
Rebel Spirit Season 2 is up for a Signal award in the "Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact" category and I would LOVE if you would vote for @akilahhughes.com and me! vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...
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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 29/09/2026
Congrats to @maureenjohnsonbooks.com on publication day for the Velvet Knife. YAY YOU! bookshop.org/a/25721/9780...
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The Velvet Knife
Return to the world of Truly Devious as Stevie Bell and her friends travel to New York to solve a murder in the next standalone mystery from New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson.Stevie mi...
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026
We are publishing the name of the alleged shooter because we believe transparency in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is of vital public interest as investigators, lawmakers and the public seek to understand what happened and how ICE operates more broadly in this state. Read more here:
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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified
The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 28/09/2026
Masterful gambit with gas prices what they are. Perfect closing argument.
Trump Sharply Scales Back Fuel Economy Rules for New Cars
The move marked the final step in the administration’s efforts to dismantle policies aimed at speeding the shift to electric vehicles.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 27/09/2026
Driving across Iowa and Nebraska this weekend. Did the same drive a month ago and gas is up at least $1 everywhere, and diesel more than that. Usually these are some of the cheapest gas states and they’re well over $4.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most riveting thing I've seen all week
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026
"should you bring an iced coffee to an interview" is just grist for the screaming machine. every day it requires new screams.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026
I'm sorry live what?
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026
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.
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Isaac Hepworth @isaa.ch · 25/09/2026
in the future we will all be hacked by openai for fifteen minutes
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/09/2026
Get their asses
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/09/2026
What If We Just Stopped? “We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast.” [dansinker.com]
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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
It wasn't so much a choice at first. I spent much of the summer on the road, which meant that getting online was nearly always a struggle, and so when I didn't have to, I stayed off. And when I did get on—I was working my remote job doing book research—doing work was the focus. I didn't fall prey to
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 24/09/2026
My friend Dan makes a great point. These systems don't work for us anymore--we work for them. Posting is formulaic and the algorithms break the flow.
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Jon Nelson @byjonnelson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Social was best when it was like a flea market, a place full of surprising finds with familiar regulars you catch up with. At some point it became a Walmart, with pay to play placements and optimized to extract money and time. It is now a chore, not a place I am drawn to.
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 24/09/2026
"There has to be a better way of connecting and sharing and existing together, a way that isn't locked into the exploitative doom loops and psychic death of what we currently have. A way that's built around humans again, not around algorithms. A way that values connection instead of confrontation."
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026
I wrote about the unraveling of social media and offer a proposal: maybe we just... stop? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I tend to think of the Internet as having intentional and non-intentional spaces. A good, well moderated forum or subreddit can be intentional. But the vast majority of social sites are non-intentional and arguably worse than vegging out in front of the TV.
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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Because logging in after a while away, it was painfully clear just how broken it all was. All the things that made social media so vital a decade or two ago have fallen apart, replaced by algorithms, engagement hacks, and endless, bottomless, screaming."
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sara the ninth 💀🗡️ @sarafen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how if we want things to be better we gotta have people willing to try new shapes of interaction. The last decade of "social media" has landed us off a cliff, and Dan really nails the feeling here. I am tired. I am SO tired, and I think I need to blog again.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
A winning message
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is good. I have mixed feelings about social media, but I like a piece of handmade writing from Dan Sinker, whom I have followed as platforms came and went
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Mike Aparicio @peruvianidol.com · 24/09/2026
“We yell because we're all trapped in a machine that was built, in part, to keep us yelling.”
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At least once a month I drop a "What if we just stopped sharing our stories to social media and spent that time doing more reporting" in our weekly editorial meeting and at first everyone thought I was crazy and now, well, they still think I'm crazy but they have to really think about it first
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026
Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The abuse that immigration agents inflict on people everywhere from Evanston streets to Alabama construction sites underscores that Kavanaugh’s racial profiling apologia in Vasquez Perdomo was always based on a fantasy. People of color have no choice but to live in the real world.”
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 23/09/2026
I'm fairly certain that a good number of insider stories about the white house and the department of defense are just JD Vance speaking an octive lower.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 23/09/2026
One of those research days where you tug on some threads and discover that the brother of the Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Klan in the early 20s was the managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution.
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Says Who Podcast @sayswhopodcast.com · 23/09/2026
Today! Join @maureenjohnsonbooks.com and @dansinker.com as they puzzle through why an arch needs drones, an arts center might be demolished, or wtf they are even doing here. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/arc...
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m not even joking. If Google and the other search sites are determined to destroy the open web, as they seem to be, the open web has to create other avenues.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bring back RSS www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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ændra. @aendra.com · 23/09/2026
This is the funniest Reddit post I've read in years
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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) @peeweebigadventure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
P.W. Herman.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last month, @gillianbrockell.com reported that not only does ICE abuse immigrants by shackling them for hours on end, they also torment them with mockery and denying bathroom breaks.
Then a man from Eritrea or Somalia, Barry isn’t sure which, began to beg the guards to let him use the lavatory. Barry chimed in with an appeal to decency, telling the guards, “Please consider us as human beings.” But the guards were boisterous by that point, he said, and they didn’t appreciate the man’s increasingly loud and desperate pleas crashing their party.

Barry watched as a guard turned and looked at the man dead in the face and said, “You. Can pee on. You.” Another guard laughed.

“After seeing that, I just kept my head down,” Barry, 52, told me over the phone last week.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22/09/2026
can't get enough of Caroline's Nancy lettering
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It blows my mind that knowing everything we know about this man, people still watch his movies. I can’t stomach them.
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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026
I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it
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Jennifer Danish @jenniferdanish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you’re in the market for a new hat!
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
Facebook had one of these for a while, how'd that work out?
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
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TRYING Beanie
NOW AVAILABLE IN TWO COLORS: Olive & Maroon It is cold, times are hard, and you are doing everything you can.  Put a hat on your head that says TRYING. Made by pals, this beanie is available in ol...
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.
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