dan sinker

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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"amplify your people" is 100% the best strategy

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Anyway yes $400 for basic economy on a random non-holiday mid-week in November seems entirely reasonable thanks everything is going great.

why do AI flyers love these little three-tick squirties that, as far as I know, have never been used on any actual flyer designed by a human, ever.

Like I went to art school and studied graphic design and there was never a class that was like "so to fill space, use the little sweat blobs that fly off the Peanuts gang when they're upset"

Probably they made that heinous ad because they knew it would garner them days and days of earned media for a campaign running on fumes before now.

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We got a shipment from him last week. and man, those whistles are LOUD.

dan sinker@dansinker.com

We have shipped thousands of whistles to New York in the last couple weeks and will ship to you too, for free, 100 to literal thousands. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Trying to access state historical records is getting more difficult because, as an Indiana librarian wrote to me today, "our state IT team is battling theft-bot scraping which is slowing down the workings of the site for the public." My personal fix for this would be scrape the site myself.

imagine being too corrupt for *waves hands in all directions*

deeply fucked up

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

ICYMI, LA Taco has parted ways with two of its most fearless ICE reporters, Memo Torres and Izzy Ramirez (@eltragon.bsky.social and @izzymirez.bsky.social on here). Neither says why, but it sounds like it was sudden and involuntary.

This is a very funny joke to a very specific type of nerd, today.

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

Chicago's best news org looking for a NW Side reporter.

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social

WE'RE HIRING 📣 📣 📣 We’re looking for a full-time reporter to cover Jefferson Park, Portage Park, Norwood Park and other Far Northwest Side neighborhoods. Apply by 11/15: buff.ly/UAZkvII

What I would love to know and I assume that eventually this will all become clear, is what the kickback up to Trump is on something like this. Is he taking 10%? 50% 90%? What's in it for him.

Liz Oyer@lawyeroyer.com

Incredible @nytimes.com reporting revealed that Trump lawyer Alina Habba got a $50M employment offer from the family of a billionaire seeking a pardon …. while she was still a government employee. Two weeks after she started “work,” the pardon was granted. youtube.com/shorts/pgw7F...

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Maureen, @maureenjohnsonbooks.com, is good at a lot of stuff but making up entire songs, on the spot, is definitely her greatest talent.

Says Who Podcast@sayswhopodcast.com

Today, come for @dansinker.com trying to talk about the week's news, stay for @maureenjohnsonbooks.com's entire musical about a man that collects teeth. So, you know, a normal week of Says Who. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/too...

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I have seen dat ass your keep in your pants and shit I was just seeing the muscle Forgive me I never look but dat ass and your feet

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

one day Musk will be thought of as one of the biggest mass murderers of the 21st Century

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Last week, Musk capped the speeds at which Ukrainian hardware could stay connected to the satellite-based network .. .. One of the people also claimed Musk and Trump discussed the matter prior to the decision ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

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What’s extremely important to remember in this is that for a fascist/authoritarian regime to take hold, it requires the population turning on itself. The government does not have the numbers to do it on its own, it needs people willing to sell each other out and others living in constant fear.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "People will make millions of dollars by turning others in"

Titanic symbolism aside, I'm pretty sure that you can turn any boat no matter how large around far quicker than "overnight."

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

JD Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

What's always amazing to me is how cheap politicians are to buy. $40k in campaign contributions in return for a $10M contract??

Jesse Eisinger@jeisinger.bsky.social

NEW: Lindsay Graham and Jim Clyburn were under FBI investigation for bribery. Then Trump dismantled the DOJ & FBI public corruption units. The investigation died. We unearthed it: www.propublica.org/article/nava...

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obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

losing control of the media narrative two weeks out from an election is exactly the kinda thing you'd turn to a disciplined and talented press secretary to mop up

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a white house reporter who took a vacation this week would have completely missed an entire press secretary