Notices by Dan Sinker (dansinker@omfg.town)

Lol the Texas National Guard troops never made it further than a base outside Joliet. Just chilled there for a month and a half at taxpayer expense. GTFO

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all who celebrate.

Text in the night from my kid.

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.

ICE marauding around Evanston all day, snatching people near schools, all schools on soft lockdown, on fucking Halloween. 🖕🖕

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that America wasn’t already great.

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

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

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.

Not gonna brag or anything but I just beat a nine year old at Magic: The Gathering.

The Times finally reporting what we all could see: Musk was absolutely tripping balls the entire time he destroyed the government. Very polite of them to wait to drop this until he’d left the position.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html

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. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.

I wrote about it: https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/

To mark Independent Bookstore Day today, I wrote about the bookshop that changed my life and why indies are more important than ever. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-04-26-indie-books/

Clone Wars getting real real over here.

Everything is terrible but here is one thing that isn't: the Rebel Spirit podcast, a labor of incredible love from Akilah Hughes and me about trying to make real change in the face of history, is up for a Webby and I NEED your vote. ENDS TODAY. PLEASE VOTE.

https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2025/podcasts/limited-series-specials/diversity-equity-inclusion-belonging

It’s OK I’m sure we didn’t need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.

Just, take apart something you don't want because putting it back together is a lot harder.

See also: everything DOGE is doing to the government.

If you’ve never taken apart a piece of electronics before, it’s worth doing for a lot of reasons but today it’s a good lesson in how every single piece inside it, and there are a lot, was manufactured separately, often by an entirely separate company in a different country, down to the screws.

I’m not going to read your “how to defeat fascism” post if it’s on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.