Dan Sinker/now

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

I'm producing the podcast Rebel Spirit, with Akilah Hughes …

and 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 wow that is a lot.

My most recent blog posts

Do One Thing

Right now it feels impossible to get anything done, but we all have to. So I wrote about how I'm trying to break my doom spiral by doing one thing.

Posted on Mar 16, 2025

Leading and Following: Punk Planet, Year 10

Everything is so shitty right now. Let's talk about the unexpected connection between Punk Planet and the Gilmore Girls.

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

What Felt Impossible Became Possible

I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails.

Posted on Feb 23, 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.

There’s snow on the ground. Are we not demoralized enough???

posted at 7:40AM on March 20, 2025

Full on Dear Leader shit right here.

Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.” Mr. Cheung said that, given Mr. Trump’s roles as president and Kennedy Center chair, “there is nobody more uniquely qualified to bring this country, and its rich history of the arts, back to prominence.”

posted at 8:18PM on March 19, 2025

Noted radical left stronghold of Buffalo Grove Illinois. patch.com/illinois/… text that reads New Tesla Dealership Vandalized, Buffalo Grove Woman Charged: Police The 26-year-old resident was charged with a felony following the incident last Friday at the new Dundee Road business.

posted at 3:59PM on March 19, 2025

I get that Says Who may not be for everyone, but do yourself a favor and listen today, as we LOSE OUR MINDS discussing the actual real-but-fictional couple that influences Chuck Schumer’s legislative decisions. ~30 min is where we start. sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/…

posted at 12:40PM on March 19, 2025

The narrative of DOGE's break-in (literally) at the US Institute of Peace is fucking gnarly as hell. www.washingtonpost.com/national-... On Monday, at approximately 2:30 p.m.” four members of Inter-Con’s local office “came onto the property and attempted to use their key cards to open the doors. Ken Jackson was sitting in a government Lincoln Navigator on 23rd Street.” The security guards “walked around, trying different badge readers” on different doors. Eventually, one “who had retained a manual key to the building” used it to open a side doorO’Brien said he activated “lockdown procedure” preventing the opening of any doors. As the security contractors approached the door, “members of DOGE were running up to enter the building. When they were unsuccessful, they went back to their cars.” It was all, he said, on USIP security cameras.

posted at 6:25AM on March 19, 2025

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Updated March 21, 2025. This page is inspired by @nownownow.