You do a great job of keeping us informed and pulling things together so that we know how they relate. Your output is amazing and I thank you for it.

David you are absolutely incredible in the quality and volume of your output. I don’t see how you do it. I am certain you deserve much more than this medium affords.

If we want to see a chance for activism to arise and bring change for the better we have to put our money where our mouth is and not just sit around and bitch. :-)

I am doing what little I can but know you and your compadres are appreciated.

It sure is! I thought he was twins when I first started here!

Where else are your going to get that level of analysis and the volume? Nowhere is where! So, if you value this kind of thing, please, sign up as a Friend, Benefactor or Gosprey!

Yes, David, I am constantly awed by the depth of information you provide to us daily. Like someone said below, FDL is the first website I open in the morning. FDL is the mothership. Hats off to you, Jane, and everyone else who makes this possible, 7 days a week.

DDay, you are too modest and probably incapable of tooting your own horn, but YOU are one of the gems of FDL.

Nowhere else can one get such comprehensive “alerts” as to issues, and the coverage you do on individual issues is outstanding.

Folks, become a member of FDL and directly support excellent journalism — the kind practiced by Dday.

Your membership benefits both yourself AND this site. Thanks and welcome.

I have been here and have been supporting the place since the Libby trial(I have the feeling a lot of people ended up here during the Libby trial)with whatever bucks I could squeeze out of my lunch money. That was before FDL even offered memberships. And I’m a member and I’ve bought memberships for a couple of other people too. Why? Well, it all comes down to how I choose to spend whatever money I’ve got. I don’t give money to PBS/NPR anymore for the obvious reason that what they provide in the way of news no longer has any quality of value to it. The amount of money I give politically has gone down because..well, you know. The money I have comes HERE – because of the quality and value of what people like DDay and Cindy create for us. And yes, I’m hoping y’all feel that the food news I put out once a week has some value for you too (if for no other reason than you can keep track of the ‘E. coli contamination of the week). But the point is, this place can’t run on volunteer labor – we need to keep people fed and housed. So it’s up to us to pony up – whatever we can – to keep the lights on, the writers and researchers working away, and keep the truth getting out there.

DDay all I can say is you are doing a bang up job and way exceeding our expectations. Thank you for all you do!! ☺ ☺ I try every day to read all you very informative post and analysis of the daily news… again thanks David..

Good work costs good money. Please add yours to the small pile today!

We really need help to keep FDL alive and well. Before you know it, there’ll be another major event — like Libby, or the Prop 8 trial, or the White House TarSands protest — that requires huge bucks to get folks there to cover it, provide continuous coverage over network resources, and let you, our readers and members, see into the event as it happens. We need renewable, supportive memberships so we can budget and plan for these events as they happen.

Join Firedoglake now. Please help us out. Make a difference in keeping independent journalism alive. Thanks.

I haven’t been hanging out here in a regular way for that long, but now I don’t miss a day without coming to FDL, and you are certainly one of the main draws. Rock on.

Thanks all for the kind words!

We like to refer to David as “the Dayen Brothers” because he literally does the work of two. He’s worth every penny and then some.

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I’ve been kicking in $20/month for years. Wish I could do more.

A trusted news source is at the core of any action we take.

David’s not just a news aggregator. He also analyzes news the national legacy-media operations ignore, such as the looming special election in Nevada.

Thanks, Boo.

Some may find it easier to justify giving to support a blog if that blog was willing to use its national/international reach to organize and support targeted economic boycotts.

The real value of the Internet as a medium for social change will not be realized until we mobilize meaningful action.

To those that say, “I personally don’t shop at walmart (fill in various wingnut coprs)” one must understand that:

1. Where we choose to shop as individuals DOES NOT MATTER to corporations in the least! They only care if we don’t support them in an organized manner that makes it clear to the world (and business community) why there incomes are taking a hit.

2. No matter how much we give to fight political battles, the other side has more – AND THEY GET IT FROM US AS CONSUMERS.

People need to stop and realize that all the koch brothers have to do is divert a very small percentage of their revenues (which come from US, often via monopolies) to fight any battle they choose. It literally costs them nothing and if we don’t take meaningful action, it ALWAYS pays huge benefits.

I know some will attack me and I accept that there is discourse on the ‘net.

Flame me if you like, doesn’t matter to me. But someday the major blogs will have to decide where they stand on this.

Do we organize meaningful action and create a dialog about economic sanctions and how they negatively impact major corporations or are we going to continue to play into the hands of alec and others by pretending that all we need to do is blog, give money, and maybe occasionally get involved with GOTV.

The dollars we spend are also votes and they make more of a difference than many of the ballots we cast.

there’s a lot of times I don’t agree with you but this is One. Thanks no money because I’m on the last of UI but please carry on with the great work that’s done at this site of Fire Doggers. May the Message be carried on and hoefully there is Light at the end of the Tunnel.

I don’t think there is but I will admit I’m wrong.

Without a knowledge base, it’s harder to really advocate, and without advocacy, it’s hard to know what’s worth highlighting. The relationship is symbiotic.

Best description I’ve read Dave. Thanks so much.

Activist projects cost money to organize and keep moving whether it is boycotts or getting arrested trying to protect the environment. I hope you are contributing what you can to FDL where more of these things can begin.

Dayen – best GD freakin reporter anywhere. And that’s not even to mention the indefatigability.

I’ll throw in some gift-membership $$ for somebody(s) who can’t afford it tomorrow, when the FDL phones are hopefully past earthquake trauma.

Been following DDay since his first posts at Digby’s place – and was always glad to see them.

Then when he came here his output freaking exploded and has been a must have source ever since as far as I’m concerned.

Go DDay!

jo6, I probably have even less hope than you. Hell, I consider myself the queen of zero hope for this absurd human clownshow. But why not gather around the fire anyway, listen, talk, even sometimes do something.

Preach it Sister Sharkbabe!

Well it’s really myself i’m pep-talking to .. :)

“indefatigability”

Have to throw in Jane and the hole gang with that one. Don’t know how you guys do it. (I do miss Marcy’s weediness here though)

I cannot express to anyone how happy I was in San Francisco after blogging for a coupla days straight through the Prop 8 trial to have David show up. He is a friend in deed, indeed.

I so enjoy a post that’s more than a clip/snip/paste with a line or two of snark or patronization. 3rd graders can do that.
Yeah for DD.

I go to a half dozen liberal blogs and get emails from a dozen others every day – each out to protect and promote its own turf. We need infrastructure alright, along with common purpose for reforming the Democratic Party or promoting another.

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you:
I came to live out loud.”

Emile Zola

Like BooRadley, I’ve been sending monthly stipends for quite awhile. Back during the Libby trial, Jane was the first to receive credentials to cover a Federal Trial. And boy howdy did she deliver. FDL put more boots on the ground covering that trial than anyone else, bar none. We had a former prosecutor, a PhD, a Sociologist, a recovering movie producer, (ahem) and even some smart people. FDL was declared as the go-to place by other journalists and this blog has blazed trails ever since. I only wish I had the time to write as much as Dday, but I’m busy supplying an addicted nation. So I support these efforts financially. Hopefully, FDL won’t ever get too respectable that we can’t sit in the back of the bus and throw spitballs, or shoes.

David, something to keep in mind about TPM. Marshall started it on a suggestion by a friend as something to do to employ himself. He was out of work, and meeting a certain friend at a local Starbucks in D.C., needed a job and income, and the friend said: “why not start a blog.” No big deal, other than to state that for him, it’s a business venture.

Obviously I can’t speak for Jane, and I don’t know for certain what her motives were in starting Firedoglake, but I’ve always believed, from both the intensity of her writing and from the very personal dedication she has shown to her causes – as well as the consistent message she has argued regardless of which party is in power – that for her this medium is a way to put forward arguments for the causes about which she is passionate. In other words, Firedoglake is not about paying Jane’s next electricity bill.
I guess my point is that Marshall envisions himself as starting the next New York Times, and for him it’s about the self gratification and, more importantly, the money. He’s a shill. I stopped reading him after Obama was elected.

I started following FDL during the runup to the Libby trial, mostly on the Late Nite threads. (Attack!) I wasn’t able to contribute $$ until recently, and was very proud to become a card-carrier. You guys can’t know what it means here in the Heart of Darkness to know that I can read others of like mind, and help where I can. Rock on!

David, Very good post. Sold me. I’m a Firebagger. (I think I prefer FireDog, fwiw)