Dan Sinker/now

I always have a lot going on, here's what I'm doing now:

I'm hosting and producing the weekly podcast Says Who

while helping run the Civic Media Fellowships at USC …

and shipping the patches and stickers I made for you …

and also making stickers for the Says Who Sticker Club

and plotting some new things …

which I hope to tell you about soon.

My most recent blog posts

Things End: Punk Planet, Year 13

For more than a year, I've been writing essays about Punk Planet, the influential, incredible, miracle of a magazine I worked on for 13 years. For more than a year I've been dreading writing this ending, because the reality is this: Sometimes things end and you never, totally get over it.

Posted on May 30, 2025

The Who Cares Era

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.

Posted on May 23, 2025

Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12

Memory is a real son of a bitch. I thought I remembered the last painful years of Punk Planet vividly. Looking across the wreckage of Year 12, our next-to-last year, it turns out there was a lot I didn't remember.

Posted on Apr 30, 2025

My most recent notes

I write a lot of notes in shortform social apps like Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. I also capture them on this site, so the platforms don't control my stuff. Here are a few. You can always look at my notes page for more.

One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.

posted at 9:23PM on June 15, 2025

If the 5 million number is accurate that means one in every 70 people in this country was on the streets today.

posted at 9:50PM on June 14, 2025

Picked a hell of a week for my mom to die.

posted at 8:29PM on June 12, 2025

I'm very checked out this week because of reasons, but I love Los Angeles so much for all the reasons that these fuckers hate it and I thought I'd share this bit of writing I did about LA during the fires: dansinker.com/posts/202...

posted at 9:28PM on June 10, 2025

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.

posted at 7:57AM on June 8, 2025

Read more notes at Mastodon or Bluesky, or check out my notes page.

Updated June 17, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.