Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
I spent Halloween chasing ghosts. Not kids in costumes, or jumpscares in a haunted house. I spent Halloween chasing ghosts of a different kind: careening from one ICE spotting to another. I wrote an essay about it, and about other ghosts we’re chasing. dansinker.com/posts/202…
posted at 11:13AM on November 5, 2025
I promise to get back to hating on New York soon, but I’m so happy for y’all.
posted at 9:57AM on November 5, 2025
Who would have thought that raising prices on everything, cutting off food assistance, doubling health insurance, destroying our reputation around the world, decimating critical government agencies like the CDC, and waging actual war on our neighbors, family, and friends would be wildly unpopular?
posted at 9:42AM on November 5, 2025
Text in the night from my kid.
posted at 6:43AM on November 5, 2025
A big L for motherfuckers tonight.
posted at 9:47PM on November 4, 2025
Great job New York, proud of you
posted at 9:03PM on November 4, 2025
the fucking helicopters are going to end me
posted at 12:48PM on November 3, 2025
Unfuckwithable.
posted at 6:27PM on November 2, 2025
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.
posted at 1:22PM on November 2, 2025
god what a crazy fucking day.
posted at 8:02PM on October 31, 2025
Of all the kids on Halloween I love the surley teens with their backpacks on the front the most. Get your candy kids, don’t say thanks, the night is yours.
posted at 5:48PM on October 31, 2025
Today in Evanston: helicopters overhead constantly, ICE jumping out across the entire town, people getting snatched outside of schools, a guns-drawn confrontation at an intersection after hitting a car, schools on soft lockdown, and they’re STILL roaming around in full tactical gear.
posted at 2:36PM on October 31, 2025
ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. 🖕🖕
posted at 12:59PM on October 31, 2025
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.
posted at 8:33PM on October 30, 2025
Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
posted at 10:45AM on October 30, 2025
Fun new game I get to play every day: leaf blower, train, or fascist helicopter.
posted at 8:31AM on October 30, 2025
ICE all over north Evanston and Wilmette snatching landscapers this afternoon.
posted at 2:40PM on October 29, 2025
It’s me, I’m She’s. 
posted at 9:44PM on October 28, 2025