I've been floored by the good folks here coming forward the last couple of days offering assistance in making c99p all that it can be.

Just tonight I was contacted by a generous member offering to hook me up with a friend of his in the server business. He quoted very reasonable prices for a dedicated server that will surely meet our needs, now and in the future. I will contact this gentleman tomorrow for further information. That is great news!

I have also been approached by several members who are web developers offering their help. One in particular with many years experience in Drupal development, offering assistance in the site UI/UX and performance. More great news!

Things are moving behind the scenes folks. We will make this happen. When I have a plan put together I will essay it.

Donations are already coming in, thanks to those that have given, you know who you are.

Of the 99, for the 99, by the 99, indeed!

Thanks for this, Cass.

but it takes nothing away from what we are trying to accomplish here. If on March 16th, nothing happens, and it's business as usual (I know, highly unlikely, but you never know), having a primary avenue (this site) for truly progressive discussions, causes and action, will keep us more focused and dare I say, rebuild a community of fellow-minded people.

Daily Kos should now be used as any other tool- to spread the word, get more people involved, etc..., I see a future of many crossposts, and I am more than fine with that. After all this , at the very least, it has forced many of us out of comfort zone, to actively seek out a new place, and here we are. That is a great thing. Personally, between Daily Kos, here, and reddit, my plate over-runneth, and I am a happy clam even though I expect to eventually lose DK.

PS: My two dogs just got sprayed by a skunk... ugh.

First thing we have to do around here is create some regular avenues for culture around here. Anyone for a regular column on climate change? Music history (with appropriately danceable videos)? The travails of the 99% as they hope to pay their bills?

I'm working on some essays on topics related to spirituality. I am Pagan, so my form of spirituality contacts and encompasses everything you mention above, Cassiodorus. (And lots of other things, of course.)

One example:
I'm working on getting my Diaries for the Pagan Sabbat (high holiday) of Beltaine (April 30 - May 1) salvaged from DK and prepared for posting here in time for Beltaine of 2016. These Diaries relate to the Haymarket Incident and the Heroes who suffered and died therein, and why we modern leftists should continue celebrating May Day to remember them. I've also got some other materials which plug the cause of the 99% into dancing, too! (I haven't forgotten Emma Goldman's demands on this topic!)

So be careful what you ask for! As you see, I'm working to make sure you -- and the rest of us -- get it!

As if the Right wanted to use any of these words! It's not as if the Republicans were against oligarchy, warmongering, or neoconservatism.

— From Cass responding to "Markos on bannable labels for Clinton."

Aside from satire, there is something mildly sinister about this twisted thinking. It's planted disinformation, of course, but why those three particular words? For sure, they were meant to set a counter intelligence back fire, but why not include at least one smear-word that a Republican would actually use? This seems to go beyond Markos' usual social engineering of his commentariat — which is always on a low boil on the front page.

These are words that do actual harm to Hillary, as a result of the Third Way democrats allegiance to a right wing foreign policy. I recently looked at a few "New Democrat" think tank documents. I recall these words popping up in reference to proposed strategies for presenting the Democratic president as a peace candidate and reluctant warrior. The Third Way strategists walk the razor's edge, talking-the-talk that the Democratic base wants to hear, while signaling the opposite to their backers in the financial and defense sectors, and dog whistling to right-leaning independents. It was artfully done in 2008, and again in 2012. When they complained, disillusioned democrats were told, "You weren't listening. He said he was going to do this. You would know that if you had been paying attention."

But I digress. On the topic of creating a media blast here for authentic democratic values, which includes the forceful defenestration of neocons, warmongerers, and the oligarchy, has everyone seen the breaking expose' of Blue Nation Review? They neatly paralleled Daily Kos by abruptly evolving from a blog where progressives can freely debate — into a ruthless attack dog for Hillary Clinton. The expose' goes deep and names some familiar names.

Hillary Clinton’s Hit Men Target Bernie Sanders at Blue Nation Review

Is a propaganda arm of Hillary Clinton’s presidential juggernaut masquerading as an independent news and opinion site?

That, anyhow, is the charge being leveled by the campaign of Clinton rival Bernie Sanders. They may have a point.

Back in the summer of 2014—when Blue Nation Review was a fledgling blog dedicated to creating “a place where progressives can debate where we want to be as a movement,” per the website’s mission statement — it treated Sanders as a liberal hero.

This was 18 months before BNR, as it’s known, started attacking the 74-year-old Sanders with a zeal normally associated with the Republican assault on Benghazi and the former secretary of state’s private email server.

These days the blog celebrates all things Clinton and relentlessly blames the socialist senator from Vermont for nearly every misguided, corrupt, hypocritical, or wretched thing in American democracy — though it does admit, from time to time, that he’s no Donald Trump.

Even before Sunday night’s CNN-sponsored Democratic debate had ended, BNR’s lead story was accusing Sanders of rudeness and sexism under the headline “Women React to Bernie Sanders Telling Hillary ‘I’m Talking.’”

BNR is “the pond scum of American politics,” said Democratic political consultant Tad Devine, a top strategist for Sanders’s campaign against the Democratic frontrunner. “I’m sure they’re going to do whatever it takes to throw mud at Bernie and discredit him and lie about him, and deceive people. And that’s their business. That’s what they do for a living.”

Devine added: “Our approach to most of this is to ignore it, and I suspect that’s all we’ll continue to do.”

It has been, to say the least, a stunning about-face for BNR—and for the blog’s small coterie of loyal readers, a baffling one as well….

I like Cassiodorus' idea of going big, even beyond Bernie. I bet the money is out there, with no place to go at this point.

Great. For a start, if anyone is still posting comments at DKos, please be sure to include a link to here.
This was posted, by a first time poster in Kos diary, quickly hidden & poster banned.
It's a message to DWS/DNC/DLC not to take us for granted.

https://www.change.org/p/democratic-national-party-i-am-a-liberal-that-w...?

If you support Bernie Sanders and you won’t support Hillary Clinton then let the DNC know that by signing and sharing the petition below. This petition doesn’t necessarily mean you will not to vote for Hillary if she is the eventual nominee, but that she will not have your personal support in a general election, such as donations and personal advocacy. Better to let the DNC know now before the race is decided. Hillary is universally unpopular amongst voters 18-29 and independents, two demographics democrats need to win a general election, in addition she has an over 50% disapproval rating. Also Hillary is only winning in states that are not going to matter much in a general election while losing in those that are, by wide margins. Meanwhile Republicans are have broken records for participation in all of the first nominating contests. If Hillary and Trump win their perspective nominations then Trump could not only become our next president but he could also obtain super majorities in the house and the senate.

Be nice to see this get Yuuge. Anything to wake up the DNC/DLC.

Presdient Sanders: an idea whose time has come

Hi everyone.... just want to thank the creators of this site for giving us an alternative to DKos. I just crawled out from under some flagging for pointing out that the Clinton Foundation has become a money laundering machine for the enrichment of the Clintons and for Hillary's campaign rather than staying with being an international charity with noble goals.

I guess the truth will not be tolerated anymore on that site.

However, I still intend to insert it there whenever I get a chance! ;>)