This is our second Monthly Report for 2017.  There was no Report for May, because I had to go to the hospital for Pancreatitis, but the stats are mixed.  It could certainly be a lot worse, given all my medical mayhem this year

Here is our latest summary:

Here is our ClustrMap for 2017 Year top Date.

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location..

Here are our top five articles:

Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 846
Unquestioning Support for Cops 6/28/2015 333
Republicans Use Scalise Shooting for Propaganda 6/19/2017 294
Sanction the Nazis 6/2/1017 237
Squatch’s Open Thread 05 June 2016 6/5/2017 229

Congrats to Squatch for making the top five.  When she claimed it was 2016 in the title, she fibbed. 😉

The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article.  Three were from April.  Congrats to Nameless, who  wrote one of them.

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Care2 1,750
Google 1,695
Baidu 402
Stumbleupon 273

Here are our top  blog/news referrers:

http://crooksandliars.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/searc
http://littlewinginc.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://welcome-to-pottersville2.blogspot.com/
http://hamsandwich66.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/

We had 10 sites  with 2 or more referrals, up 3 from April.  Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their support.

As of midnight July 1, we had 7,479 articles and 90,306 comments.

Congrats to Lona Goudswaard for posting the 90,000th comment.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar.  Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar.  Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder.  Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster.  I  promoted them from Author in August to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links.  We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily.  However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article.  I also remove topical links.  Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window. 

Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere.  You and other activists are America’s only hope.

I expect things to stay relatively slow through the summer as I will be devoting a lot of time to medical mayhem.   We have survived six months of Putin’s Puppet and his Republican Reich.  During that time he has failed almost across.  That’s your fault.  Your efforts to educate others and expose his treacherous dealings to the light of day have frustrated him at every turn.  Kudos to you all!  Keep up the good work!

RESIST!!