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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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
They renamed the entire company around this.
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
They renamed the entire company around this.
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This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.
Every day a fresh hell
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every day a fresh hell
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On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Whoa
BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.
FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says
The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Whoa
What a legend. RIP. Put getting to the Stax Museum in Memphis on your must-do-someday list.
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
What a legend. RIP. Put getting to the Stax Museum in Memphis on your must-do-someday list.
@dwillis.bsky.social found this ad for you in the Feb 21 1927 edition of the Indianapolis News
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
@dwillis.bsky.social found this ad for you in the Feb 21 1927 edition of the Indianapolis News
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Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
December 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Amazing. Apparently I take enough photos of Sneakers-related stuff that my Photos app is now detecting Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd as my friends.
Never shopping at Home Depot again in my entire life.
December 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Never shopping at Home Depot again in my entire life.
Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
Younger people who didn't witness it cannot fathom the hype around the Segway. Every news station agreed it would revolutionize the entire social fabric of the Earth. That all future humans would divide history between the savage days of the past, and the soon to be new era of zoom zoom scoot scoot.
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Steve Jobs said they would redesign cities around them.
A neighbor wrote to say there was a coyote sitting in our yard pre-dawn this morning and I’ve never felt so like legit actual hashtag-blessed. Come and stay as long as you like, old friend. As long as you like.
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A neighbor wrote to say there was a coyote sitting in our yard pre-dawn this morning and I’ve never felt so like legit actual hashtag-blessed. Come and stay as long as you like, old friend. As long as you like.
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Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
OK, this has nothing to do with the question but why is Matt Gaetz creeping over in the half-frame?
Q: “Does the Department of War plan on pursuing any sort of legal action against the Washington Post?”
DOD Spox Kingsley Wilson: “It is frankly disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false…It is disgraceful that they call themselves journalists.”
DOD Spox Kingsley Wilson: “It is frankly disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false…It is disgraceful that they call themselves journalists.”
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
OK, this has nothing to do with the question but why is Matt Gaetz creeping over in the half-frame?
To be fair, it is absolutely mind-blowing to me as well that the WWE does not have a physical hall of fame. They love money and blowing their own dick, like how have they not built something eons ago. That said, I would not include that fact in a book.
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To be fair, it is absolutely mind-blowing to me as well that the WWE does not have a physical hall of fame. They love money and blowing their own dick, like how have they not built something eons ago. That said, I would not include that fact in a book.
literally nobody outside a small circle of sickos cares about this story and is certainly not going shell out actual american dollars for it.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
“It can be hard to compete with the likes of Britney Spears and Emily Henry for attention and sales.”
Does scandal sell? Not for Olivia Nuzzi’s book so far | CNN
“We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door,” said one bookseller.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
literally nobody outside a small circle of sickos cares about this story and is certainly not going shell out actual american dollars for it.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
If it feels bigger to you than that, that's because bluesky is overindexed on these specific sickos.
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Today! @maureenjohnsonbooks.com goes to the movies, @dansinker.com goes to the North Pole, and America goes to hell. It's a new Says Who! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/gar...
December 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Today! @maureenjohnsonbooks.com goes to the movies, @dansinker.com goes to the North Pole, and America goes to hell. It's a new Says Who! sayswhopodcast.com/episodes/gar...
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US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
December 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
US policing IS inherently racist and has always been. This is not controversial. The fact that people pretend that it is IS actually the problem. You're welcome.
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So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
The good news is Republicans in Congress are shitting their pants right about now
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.
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This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
Whistle up Twin Cities.
The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching an “intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali immigrants in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region."
Report: ICE headed to Twin Cities targeting Somali immigrants • Minnesota Reformer
The New York Times reported Tuesday morning that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching an “intensive immigration enforcement operation primarily targeting hundreds of undocumented Somali im...
minnesotareformer.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Whistle up Twin Cities.
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Your lich got drip like this?
Within an hour of arriving in Munich I stumbled upon the bejewelled skeleton of Saint Munditia clutching a goblet filled with dried blood, martyred in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Standard...
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Your lich got drip like this?