Please support BNR on Daily Kos
Submitted by TomP on Sat, 03/19/2016 - 5:54pm
I know some folks don't even go back to Daily Kos. Cool with me. But if you do, please recommend Bernie News Roundup (BNR) every morning. It's a beachhead of liberated territory behind metaphoric enemy lines. They need recs to survive and get the message out as long as they can.
I think it's going to get very bad there. Hillary vigilante groups are forming and calling for bannings. Most Hillary supporters are not like that, but all it takes is a few who inform and point out the unclean ones.
If Bernie wins more, it will get even worse.
Those that can, help keep BNR alive as long as we can.
No doubt, this blogpost I write will be quoted there. We will see the limits of the brave new blog's " freedom."
Comments
LD and his BNR
There are a few reasons why I still go over to dKos. LD and BNR are two of them. When I go, I support LD and his tireless work.
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
I'm With You, Tom
LieparDestin does fantastic work and puts in lots of hours every day to post BNR. I just posted this comment in another thread here - http://caucus99percent.com/comment/38459#comment-38459.
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
Thanks
Ya, I know he works so hard!
I am okay long as I don't click on 'comments'--so despite not wanting to give Napoleon his website hits, I have chosen to support LD, and trying to be better about logging on to rec that. It's totally worth it, it's the best roundup online, IMO.
I abide the same philosophy Jekyll. Will post diaries here first
for the family, then over there for mass consumption. For the time being.
To me it's important to maintain a bigger Bernie presence on the Rec list during the primaries.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Yes
I try to make sure I rec LD's diary every day.
BNR
MB: Have you been following BNR daily? Did you check out the family pic LD posted (B&W) of him being held in his Dad's arms? LD is major Native American blood. No wonder he's doing this blog. I am Irish/German/Cherokee Indian. My old man is cracker Floridian: German, French and Blackfoot. Why is Markos going RW nuts? I've been on DK for 8 years. I don't do diaries. Still, I am a life-long Futurist/Political Junkie. I don't get the purges of posters cos they don't like HRC. She's a bad joke, and dumber (genetically) than Wee Willie Slinkee. That's my opinion. Aren't we supposed to have informed debates during primaries? Appreciate your answer. BTW: BERN**BABY**BERN!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
Hey, good to see you here. Good to see you supporting
BNR, too.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
We can reach more people with Twitter.
DK should be put in the Smithsonian.
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Groucho
Twitter feed shut down?
I never saw a follow up discussion of the #whichhillary hashtag shutdown. Did the owner of twitter indeed shut down this feed? If so, supporting twitter seems a bad idea. Thanks for any insight you might have.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Sure, for as long as it is
Sure, for as long as it is permitted there.
Would a crossposting here be ok?
I will suggest it to LP.
Please do!
The BNR is the only thing I miss from TOS. I prided myself on having read, rec'd & tipped every diary until my week long timeout. I haven't been back since and won't be going back again. If it's not too much effort, it would be great if he could format it for this site and get it to post. Even without all the bells and whistles, it would be great to read it here!
And if you see this post LD, just let me thank you again for your dedication and all of the hard work you have put into the BNR and Bernie's campaign. And, just so you know, all my contributions to Bernie are still being made through your tip jar!
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
George W. Bush
I always rec his diaries. He
I always rec his diaries. He does fantastic work. Otherwise, am in many ways afraid to tip or recommend anything there for fear of the skull and crossbones.
Exactly the desired effect of intimidation
conducted with protection from management. I do NOT say that in any way to disparage you! It's gotten incredibly nasty there, and choosing not to subject oneself to online bullying is 100% legit. I've been going daily to read and rec BNR. Today I realized I might not have the stomach for that anymore. Will see; LP deserves support. I wish he had another site.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
He does
He has his own site for it, and is on Twitter.
ty. Do you have a link for his own site?
I don't use twitter, just sometimes google trending hashtags like #stillsanders.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Here's the link:
www.bernienewsroundup.com
Just discovered the link tonight over at Kossacks for Sanders on Reddit. Unfortunately, my oldish iPad is having trouble displaying it for some reason ... So looks like I'll continue to visit TOP (that Other Place) first thing in the morning to T&R LD's good work!
"Long term: first the rich get mean, then the poor get mean, and the rest is history." My brother Rob.
I quit caring
about bony mojo. I would like to receive this badge of honor. I got put in time out about 2 weeks ago for (paraphrase) longstanding, reoccurring, inappropriate, trouble making behavior. For years I would get the messages on my page that said 'Maybe you would be happier somewhere else. Acknowledge this or else.' Well I found somewhere else and I am much happier not to be called a purist, far leftie, firebagging, emoprog, Nadarite Rotten Dr. Commie Rat.
Dkos was/is toxic. Kos and his flying monkeys have run off over the 10years I've been there most lefties who refused to say Nie! The less I go there the better I feel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for us all. The fear is gone, even when I do go over and see what the authoritarian idiot's are up too. I'm glad to see other people I respect and care about from dkos finding a better place which welcomes free thought/speech and does not think far left democratic humanistic 'issues' are a waste of time.
Yes, BNR is the reason I hop over there every day
I also check the rec list to see if pro-Bernie diaries are there, and rec those, too.
Would LOVE to support LP/BNR if it didn't involve supporting
dkos. I don't deal well with the heavy hand kos displays; I was raised to question authority, and his has become highly questionable. Sure, it's his blog, his rules. But actions have consequence--or should. He's being merciless about inflicting consequences on long-timers that in some cases are not deserved. I'd like to be able to separate consequences for LP from consequences for kos. I may be able to stick it out a little longer with a read and rec for LP. Not sure. Nevertheless, I understand and applaud the motives for this essay, TomP.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
I agree with you 100%
Everyone supporting Bernie should blow off DKos, due to the authoritarianism, and post here. Then we all twitter and FB those posts from here to generate more traffic for the posts and for C99. We could have some sort of an alert or flagging from the compilation diaries such as those so we all notice them. Why would any of us want to give Kos cred that he no longer deserves?
Where else can we read BNR
The atmosphere at GOS is so oppressive. Would love to support LD, but not if it means continuing to read GOS.
I asked in BNR if he'd cross post, don't think he wants to do that. Said something about believing in changing from within, that ship sailed long ago over there.
Feel very strongly about not wanting to do anything which helps that website.
bernienewsroundup.com
Liepar has http://bernienewsroundup.com/ Demeter Rising was copying the BNR over there and it is current today. Loads kind of slow for me but all the goodness is there without the comments, the actblue thermometer too. Thanks!
Peace
Hi eyo
nice to see you here.Hope you're doing well.
Solidarity
Digging in the dirt is doing well
Thanks rwiley., back at ya!
Our local veggie farmer lives close by and I can "work for food" so that is awesome for me. Yesterday we moved compost to some of the planting beds and their land is oh so beautiful it calms my spirit like nothing else. Today it will rain again which means our area is approaching "normal" rainfall for the first time in a long time. Cheers.
Peace
I am making my daily comment, there.
I rec and tip and rec as many comments as I can. That's the extent of my participation over there.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Glad you are.
It helps. A rec, a comment.
No need to be on Dkos.
I will stay until or if banned, but I understand your position.
LD should come here.
Markos Moulitsas merits our contempt, as does his site. You know, the same sort of contempt neoliberals have for the masses.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
Markos Moulitsas merits our
Markos Moulitsas merits our contempt, as does his site. You know, the same sort of contempt neoliberals have for the masses.
I completely agree. Why give that a_hole the traffic? It's time to let the other place become its natural self -- of, by and for the Hillarists where
the Hillbots can high five each other and celebrate their victory over the Berniebros.
I quit posting there after the edict.
I quit reading or recc'ing there on the fifteenth.
I see B N R on Twitter. And there is a link straight to him.
I will get it and be right back.
Bernienewsroundup.com
Thank you Miss SPED!
This will be much more palatable.
I can't seem to get in and out of dk without being unhappy.
I don't need anymore beatings. Seeing my fellows being beaten is just as bad.
'Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it." Elwood P. Dowd "
Thank you, Miss SPED
Won't be tuning in for his live blogs of debates (what debates?), but I will miss being with the crew for live blogs of election results.
Much preferable to read BNR directly at his site. Thanks again.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
They blogged here
It was good, the last election night.
The Young Turks
https://www.tytnetwork.com/live/ are good for commentary on debate, townhall, and election nights.
Alphalop has done live blogs here
and they have been excellent. I am hoping he will continue to do them again in the future.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
BNR is exactly why
I go there every day and rec and retweet. Liepar has done a yeoman's job with his series and he deserves all the love we can give him.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Is LD signed up here?
If not, someone should recruit him.
see below (n/t)
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Yes...LieparDestin is a member...
here.
Tom
I keep asking LD to cross post here. JayRaye, gjohnsit, Robyn do. If he writes it here and then brings it to dkos5, it is easier than bringing it from dk5 here. I do go there every day to read the BNR. If I tweet it, it promotes dailydemocrat. I do not want to do that. You all need to leave. Why do you want to stay there and let them kick you around?
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I think I can do some good there still.
Might be wrong. Each person must decide for herself or himself.
Yes, of course....
Well, we're here when you are ready. I will do as much as I can to support LD over there. He might want to think about moving his trove of BNRs to his own server. Hope to see you soon TomP.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Tasini?
I'm wondering if Tasini will be the next one banned. He/She just posted an anti-Hillary diary, good of course, over on the Great Orange Satan that is probably bannable.
I've been wondering about Tasini's fate over there as well.
A lot of twerps who have no idea who Jonathan Tasini is have been shrilly demanding he be banned. It's a conundrum for poor Markos (cue the tiny violin!) because he surely DOES know that Jonathan has real stature in meat-space and banning him from his site would become a news story gleefully repeated by the MSM and the right: Dissent on the left! Insurgent New York politician purged at Daily Kos!
All publicity is good publicity... except when it isn't.
Hillary Clinton 2016: I'm a proud progmoderate!
Yes, it is easy to ban an unknown
But if Markos bans Jonathan Tasini, it would definitely call attention to the purge. Tasini has appeared on MSM as a surrogate for Bernie. I was kind of hoping Markos bans him. As of 10 am eastern, Tasini still has all of his mojo. If he is not banned, then greywolfe has a better argument for reinstatement. Markos created this mess and it will come back to bite him in the rear quarters eventually.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
LOL, that's funny
I didn't know Tasini was that Tasini. If this shows anything it's that KOS is being hypocritical if he's not sticking to his own banning guidelines.
I just saw that Tasini is now in TO as of 6;30 edt (n/t)
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Sorry to see that.
Tasini is a good guy who can create megaphones for his views. Better politics that the Blogowner and deep relationships with unions and other progressives.
Censorship
is not democratic and should never be a part of even an ostensibly Democratic blog. I have pretty much quit posting there simply because I believe that self censorship is the worst kind and that is what I find myself doing. Anyway, Markos dodged a big one by only putting Tasini in TO while he bojo'd greywolfe and New Minas for far less. It has become a witch hunt over there and I am guessing Markos could care less about his site than he cares about pleasing the Democratic party's establishment.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
So when is Tasini coming here?
It's not as if I didn't extend an invitation.
The ruling classes need an extra party to make the rest of us feel as if we participate in democracy. That's what the Democrats are for. They make the US more durable than the Soviet Union was.
That's it exactly - the burden of self-censorship
simply became too much, a self defensive posture in order to avoid being stopped and frisked by the thought control police walking the beat. Who needs it?
I saw Joe Scarborough make an impassioned case this morning about how Hillary Clinton was a far better Republican than Donald Trump and he enumerated the issues where she was on the Republican wavelength. I toyed with the thought of posting it over there just to watch heads explode and to commit ritual suicide but thought better of it.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
I would,
if I could. But Kos made certain that I couldn't. My brains were splattered all over a diary by the mighty Kos' ban hammer.
It is their loss.
It is their loss.
Sorry to hear that.
Like so many, a martyr to Bernie and fre thought.
Here is a revealing piece!
Just a little OT but in case some might have missed it. . .
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/19/1501760/-The-Sorry-State-of-Th...
Will this get this writer banned? It is so bluntly put and to the point of why we are here and not over there any more.
Crossposted here
http://www.caucus99percent.com/content/probably-my-last-daily-kos-diary-...
"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back" - Regina Brett
such delicate flowers
The Hillary supporters over there don't seem to distinguish between criticism and attacks on their candidate. Apparently blunt criticism is a bannable offense by several of them. Makes it really tough to have a conversation, don't you think?
Make sure that I rec BNR everyday at the orange swamp.
I find many days that is the only thing I look at on there - this has been since January.
Wish he would post it here...the more talented writers that post here the more attention the site will get...
Thank for the OP TomP.
FEEL THE BERN: "But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine
"Here I Stand, I can do no other." - Attributed to Martin Luther, 1521
Definitely supporting LD & BNR, though after Wed. my
connetions will be scarce & spotty for a while.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
continue to read and rec BNR
So far the comments in BNR are generally respectful -- kind of an uneasy truce. Spending a lot less time at MyDK lately and more time at the Reddit and here for news.
T&R'd today n/t
I do go there just to read the BNR..
and other posts about Bernie that are positive. I was floridagal there, madfloridian most everywhere else. I mostly posted about education reform. Haven't posted but once since the format change.
So much work has gone into the BNR there, I never miss it.
Very much enjoying reading here.
https://twitter.com/madfloridian
I completely cut ties with
I completely cut ties with the site, I will not support them with a single click that can help their revenue. In addition life is much better without Hillary supporters.
I go to rec and retweet BNR every day
Liepar has put an enormous amount of work into that series, sometimes under very trying circumstances, just to bring it to us each day. I intend to give it as much love as I can.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Thanks TomP the BNR is a positive news machine
I logged in to T&R Liepar and some comments earlier today. I wonder if it's possible to time the wrecks so to keep it on the list all day long? Do tips on later comments keep it going? I don't know ~shrug~ but there are over a million pair of eyeballs registered there so I think it is smart to use dk for added Bern exposure.
I was on self-imposed timeout being pissed at the ugly Clinton take-over. I want the Clintons to retire. Thanks.
Peace
T&R BNR daily, seldom comment now
Assuming HRC wins the Nomination will a new edict come out at DK for a Purity Pledge to vote for HRC in the GE? Or will LOTE be enough to keep kossacks in line?
Trying to bully me into voting for HRC will be a bridge too far.
Thanks
for the support everyone. I appreciate everyones comments and understand the decisions some have made! The #1 reason I haven't started crossposting is time. Most people know I throw these together in the wee hours of the morning before I dash off to work most days so theres literally no time left to cross-post the material over until what would be much further in the day.
I've started to test around with how quickly I can put together an edition here, but will have to do a little more before I can make any final decisions on what I can commit to. Regardless of the BNR I do look forward to posting/reading about other topics here and will try to become more active!
After lurking addictively
at TOP for 8+ years, months before the edict came down, when so many of the anti-Bernie folks had already begun crapping on anything positive and going ballistic at every bs story coming out of their anointed one’s PR machine, going there became a real challenge. I eventually stopped reading anything but LD’s inspirations of the day (which he deserves massive credit and gratitude for, esp. on those days when things seem to be going in the wrong direction). I understand there are technical issues about moving his work over here (I’m technologically inept and can’t even figure out how to post a jpeg on this site), but I just can’t see giving a single penny of my SS check to support the lifestyle of a newly-rich-and-famous-bought-and-paid-for-suck-up over at that other place.
DK site
Finally trying out this site, along with Reddit. I loved the BNR morning posts on DK but since I do not go there anymore, I try get them online but they are usually a day late and sometimes not up at all. Of course, there are no comments to be made with the online site which I liked almost as much as the blog itself.
As much as I would like to support BNR, I cannot bring myself to go back to DK. I have been there from the beginning and it took many days/weeks for me to stop peeking and now I am resolved not to go back.
This site, I find a bit confusing but if you put up the stuff you also put on DK, I would come here more often.
Thanks again, Mike for all you do to keep us all informed.