The Atlantic has unmasked the man responsible for those pithy profanity-laced tweets we came to love from @MayorEmanuel. His name is Dan Sinker, he’s a Chicagoan, he founded the now defunct magazine Punk Planet and teaches journalism at Columbia College in downtown Chicago. Alexis Madrigal‘s story details the life of the Twitter account and even includes a handy graphical tour of the Rahm Emanuel-inspired satire.
