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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Remember how all the people with cooler heads said comparing them with nazis was being hysterical
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remember how all the people with cooler heads said comparing them with nazis was being hysterical
When Punk Planet was just starting, Ben Weasel wrote in his MRR column that I would "not know good writing even if it crawled into his lap and gave him head."
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When Punk Planet was just starting, Ben Weasel wrote in his MRR column that I would "not know good writing even if it crawled into his lap and gave him head."
Hey, if your relationship with your family is fraught for whatever reason, then let me say it: Happy Christmas, I’m proud of you for being you.
December 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hey, if your relationship with your family is fraught for whatever reason, then let me say it: Happy Christmas, I’m proud of you for being you.
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They lie.
They always lie.
They always lie.
Two injured after ICE agents fire at Maryland vehicle amid crackdown
An attempted ICE arrest outside Baltimore turned violent after a man allegedly drove into law enforcement vehicles.
www.aljazeera.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
They lie.
They always lie.
They always lie.
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OK EVERYONE GO TO BED OR SANTA WONT COME
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
OK EVERYONE GO TO BED OR SANTA WONT COME
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My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good
a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .
ALT: a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
My husband thinks he hates musicals but he knows every word to Muppet Christmas Carol and sings along happily and was excited to put it on tonight so I think the problem is that he saw the greatest musical of all time and now he thinks all of them should be this good
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I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
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December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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this is a really lovely piece about a song that, for all the grumbles about it, is still one of my favorites. it’s in the record stack for tonight.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
this is a really lovely piece about a song that, for all the grumbles about it, is still one of my favorites. it’s in the record stack for tonight.
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re-upping dan's wonderful piece from today - and yes, if you've never seen this version of Fairytale of New York, you really need to (and play it loud)
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
December 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
re-upping dan's wonderful piece from today - and yes, if you've never seen this version of Fairytale of New York, you really need to (and play it loud)
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
and I am in agreement:
this next year is OUR year, gdammit
k
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This came across my timeline just as the song started playing in my living room. Beautiful piece about a deeply human song
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This came across my timeline just as the song started playing in my living room. Beautiful piece about a deeply human song
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I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
♥️
When all our dreams come true
♥️
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
♥️
When all our dreams come true
♥️
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Hell, this made me cry like a child.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Hell, this made me cry like a child.
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Merry Christmas Eve, folks.
This is my favorite version of the song, and my favorite Christmas song of the last century.
This is my favorite version of the song, and my favorite Christmas song of the last century.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Merry Christmas Eve, folks.
This is my favorite version of the song, and my favorite Christmas song of the last century.
This is my favorite version of the song, and my favorite Christmas song of the last century.
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Dancing in the Pews.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Dancing in the Pews.
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Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
December 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.
I'm not sure if this account ever misses.
Mariposa, by Alexander Calder, 1951, 📸 by Bruce Ely
December 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm not sure if this account ever misses.
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.
Fascinating story from VA: the Confederacy on trial, with a microcosm of the national dynamic that brought us here: the George Floyd protests and racial reckoning, and the furious backlash. Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
The Confederacy Goes on Trial, Along With Schools Named Jackson and Lee
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That schools named themselves and their mascots after the confederacy in the mid-1950s as a response to desegregation is the central premise of Rebel Spirit podcast. @akilahhughes.com and I even did a segment about this high school.
Fuck it man, haunted shoes take me away.
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Fuck it man, haunted shoes take me away.
Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special: FULL Episode in 1080 HD!
YouTube video by Pee-wee Herman
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Did you know that Pee Wee's Christmas special is available to watch on YouTube any time you want?? youtu.be/NRvtOGLzpvE?...
Completely shocked
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Completely shocked
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this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media
December 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
this is insane to me. the doj had forever to look into this. now they're like liveblogging on x like they have no more information than a random person on social media
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"Tech" when I was in my 20s: People can talk to each other! And the rich and powerful can't stop us!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"Tech" when I was in my 20s: People can talk to each other! And the rich and powerful can't stop us!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
"Tech" now: People can talk to AI! And the rich and powerful can decide what the AI says!
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Here’s some water for your roots in a famine year 💚💚💚
over the weekend I wrote a little defense of Doing The Work at a time where we're constantly being offered shortcuts dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
A note in defense of Doing The Work, written on the shortest day of the longest year | dansinker.com
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December 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Here’s some water for your roots in a famine year 💚💚💚