Hooray! Met Our Third Target! On to the Fourth: Continuing Expanded Daily Links

Thanks so much to those who have donated so far for your prompt and generous gifts! Your backing makes our work possible!

Our next target, as we explain more fully below, is continuing our expanded daily Links. We have responded to the Trump era by going from 55 daily links to 60ish in the runup to the 2024 election to 65-70 now.

This is a lot of additional information heavy lifting, but the continuing intense news flow demand it to give all of you something approximating a good overview. Many of you tell Links are how you start the day, and even for those outside Americas time zones, are often a major and in many cases a main new source. So help us keep this vital asset up to your high standards!

We’ve at 639 donations, and so moving towards fundraiser target of 1100 donors. We are also receiving many enthusiastic notes, as well as a healthy number of first-time donors. Both are encouraging sigsn for the long-term health of this enterprise.

Offsetting that is that the total number of donations at this time is a bit behind the level of some past years. We know that quite a few our our loyal readers and sponsors have yet to chip in. So please, when you have a few free minutes, visit the Tip Jar and help keep this community in fighting form.

We also appreciate messages like this one from JTH and SH:

Naked Capitalism is our everyday go-to for peering out at the chaotic world out there, with a consistently excellent daily collection of Links, spanning the topics which are relevant and important to us, along with the other daily writers and guests. There’s no other such source of timely and world-spanning articles out there, providing information we would not be seeing otherwise.

The commentariat is an equal part of the website, giving thanks to all the moderators who continue to manage the comments in such a thorough way so as to consistently be a refreshing oasis of considered thought and communications! I remain deeply impressed by the breadth and depth of the many different life experiences of those who comment, with a huge range of knowledge and skills accumulated.

I don’t know how you keep doing what you do, but we are everlastingly thankful that you continue to model excellence in critical thinking and variety to our world!

Our best wishes to you in reaching your goals, and our daily thanks to all who are part of this gem,

[Yves blushes modesty]

And from AA:

Thanks for your fine publication! I’ve learned so much from Naked Capitalism over the years…

From Eric M:

You are my main source of news and opinion.
I’m so grateful for all that you do.

And from GS and SS:

Thank you again for for tireless efforts at NC all these years! NC is our go-to site for links and original reporting. It is unmatched.

Even more important, we proceeded nicely through our first three goals. The first was $25,000 to provide for more technology investments to cope with a more hostile external environment. Second was $26,000 for supporting the comments section. Your speedy donations showed how much you value the community and recognize the essential role katiebird and semper loquitur play in keeping temperatures below a boil. And you’ve just met the third target, of $34,000 for the new Coffee Break and Sunday Movie features! Well done@

But these are only our initial targets. If you haven’t had time to contribute yet, we hope you’ll go to our Tip Jar pronto, which shows you how to give by check, debit or credit card or PayPal.

Our next goal is $29,000 for continuing our expanded Links section.

Back to the current target: of 3 AM EDT, we are already $595 towards that target.

As we explained in our kickoff post, we expanded our Links section from the pre-Covid maximum of 45 links to 65 to 70. This represents a day-in, day-out commitment of additional staffing, as in an ongoing increase of manning of the site, which means more budget needs. In fact, everyone is working harder since we have not increased compensation levels anywhere near in line with this load (admittedly Conor is insanely efficient, much faster at assembling good links than I am).

On top of that, particularly due Conor’s interest in finding non-MSM sources, we have more diversity of content and perspectives (particularly from abroad) than before.

So those of you who have contributed already, thanks again for your generous support, and we look forward to those NC fans who have just found out about the fundraiser donating through the Tip Jar to help make the site more successful.