High Impact Stories: August 16, 2020

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Monday August 17, 2020 · 11:24 AM PDT

2020/08/17 · 11:24

2020-08-16 00:00:11 - 2020-08-16 23:48:47 UTC; DailyKos stories = 134; 134 per day; 5.6 per hour

Yesterday 119 Kogs posted 134 stories of which 132 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2049 recommending readers; 98 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 44 by 30 or more, and 22 by 100 or more. Commenters (1848) visited 134 stories; 71 had 10 or more commenters, 27 had 30 or more, and 8 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Mon Aug 17 08:00:03 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 134 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 82.6

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 12, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 14, 2020 · 11:59 AM PDT

2020/08/14 · 11:59

2020-08-12 00:00:03 - 2020-08-12 23:59:59 UTC; DailyKos stories = 151; 151 per day; 6.3 per hour

Yesterday 126 Kogs posted 151 stories of which 145 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2001 recommending readers; 98 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 54 by 30 or more, and 32 by 100 or more. Commenters (2140) visited 150 stories; 88 had 10 or more commenters, 47 had 30 or more, and 11 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Thu Aug 13 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 151 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	151	145	98	54	32
commenters	151	150	88	47	11
connections	151	145	117	76	38

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	2140	878	122	1201	61
RECOMMEND	878	2001	61	1123	61
WRITE	122	61	126	4	61

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	10829
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3267 x 126 = 411642
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.6 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	10829 / 3267 = 3.31

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	416	317	4.64	"All enemies, foreign and domestic": Military thinkers call for military to assure Trump leaves	A Siegel	20:19
2	382	377	4.48	Bishop laments Biden-Harris ticket doesn?t have ?a Catholic on it,' gets schooled by Twitter	Walter Einenkel	23:20
3	289	403	3.42	Trump's response to Harris pick shows his campaign is stupid and incompetent	kos	18:21
4	281	190	3.19	Kamala Harris as VP completely blows up the Trump campaign's strategy, if it ever had one	Kerry Eleveld	00:11
5	274	311	3.15	*Biden Favored to Win: Fivethirtyeight Releases the Model Update**	Kappyhour	15:59
6	243	203	2.81	Hannity hands Trump a softball question about Kamala Harris and Trump loses his mind	Walter Einenkel	00:19
7	236	181	2.54	Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05) wins Primary. The Squad is Strong.	AKALib	07:25
8	228	369	2.56	Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The stability of the Biden lead, the chaos of the White House	Greg Dworkin	16:30
9	227	102	2.44	The Thing About Kamala	Rule of Claw	16:33
10	210	141	2.39	Marjorie Greene's primary victory underlines that GOP leaders have lost control of their own party	Mark Sumner	18:19
11	205	139	2.31	Trump thought Biden would pick Karen Bass because she wouldn't 'outshine' him	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	22:46
12	205	122	2.25	1st Biden-Harris Ad out	WolframAndHart	18:24
13	199	174	2.16	San Francisco Public Defender Comes to Kamala Harris? Defense	GimpyOlNorman	10:22
14	191	301	2.33	Right-wing pundits decide Kamala Harris isn?t ?Black enough,? but here's why it isn?t their call	Lauren Floyd	00:40
15	187	157	2.12	Reuters/Ipsos National Poll: Biden Ahead of Trump by 16 Points	ericlewis0	01:51
16	183	91	2.02	Donald J. Trump donated thousands to Kamala Harris. Just sayin'	SemDem	05:24
17	176	134	2.02	trump goes tilting at windmills. Again.	AKALib	19:06
18	166	50	1.78	Kamala Harris Provides Welcome Relief From an Otherwise Butthole-Heavy News Cycle	ShowerCap	07:11
19	165	220	1.99	Less than 24 hours! Birtherism 2.0	subtropolis	04:13
20	159	78	1.77	Cop caught fondling dead woman; ?some are even sexually victimized after their deaths,? lawyer says	Aysha Qamar	00:43
21	154	109	1.68	Joe Biden Picked Kamala Harris Despite Advice Not To: Reason #35 to Love Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:04
22	149	107	1.73	Trump commands 'the suburban housewife' to vote for him. If it sounds desperate, it is	Kerry Eleveld	21:27
23	146	87	1.64	Kamala Harris? powerful first appearance as Biden?s running mate is a must-watch	Walter Einenkel	03:03
24	138	289	1.52	Good News Roundup for August 12, 2020 ? What a difference a day made!	arhpdx	16:00
25	119	165	1.26	DKHive! Biden/Harris! - Americans Assemble! For Joe and Kamala, for our country.	Onomastic	18:46
26	118	33	1.25	Kamala Harris supports $2,000 per month emergency income for the duration of the pandemic	Mark Sumner	01:23
27	112	126	1.31	On Facebook, QAnon conspiracism is reaching a global critical mass amid the pandemic	David Neiwert	05:25
28	110	88	1.27	White House gambit to make Trump look presidential on the economic crisis has failed. What's next?	Joan McCarter	20:24
29	107	75	1.21	Russia isn't leading the world by releasing a COVID-19 vaccine, it's signaling Putin's failure	Mark Sumner	20:01
30	106	102	1.16	Our Priorities Are Fed*	VirginiaWave	03:29
31	105	93	1.20	Ohio Republican Secretary of State Blocks more Ballot Drop Boxes, to suppress turnout	Lefty Coaster	01:18
32	100	79	1.15	Pence welcomes Harris to the ticket, gets one thing right	Mother Mags	19:10
33	96	30	1.06	Remember that viral story of a Bible-burning in Portland, Oregon? Here's the bigger picture	Marissa Higgins	05:30
34	94	94	1.07	yet another Trump presser - more chicken-in-every-pot promises	annieli	02:48
35	90	21	0.98	Voter registration surged with Black Lives Matter protests	Joan McCarter	22:21
36	87	116	1.11	Florida sheriff bans both deputies and visitors from wearing masks amid coronavirus pandemic	Marissa Higgins	23:31
37	84	22	0.88	'A champion for immigrants': Immigrant youth celebrate Kamala Harris as Joe Biden's VP pick	Gabe Ortiz	20:45
38	77	101	0.89	Biden-Harris joint appearance Livestream	annieli	01:52
39	72	194	0.79	PWB Peeps Wednesday: Puppy Piles (With Friends)	Ice Blue	22:45
40	70	94	0.77	Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday	Bill in Portland Maine	16:49
41	60	46	0.71	Republican strategist Frank Luntz reveals Oval Office replica in bizarre news appearance	Walter Einenkel	21:02
42	59	12	0.62	Washington joins handful of states assisting undocumented residents with pandemic relief	Gabe Ortiz	22:07
43	51	7	0.54	Cartoon: Silence is violence	Matt Bors	16:50
44	47	29	0.54	Morning Digest: What Kamala Harris' vice presidential bid could mean for her Senate seat	Daily Kos Elections	17:00
45	41	30	0.46	Trump's senility, dementia, and decrepitude tell you how much he's the demi-god of a QAnon religion	annieli	09:05
46	37	46	0.41	The Wicked Pence of the West Wing - Evening Shade, Wednesday	NotNowNotEver	04:30
47	35	36	0.40	Was there a better Biden VP Pick? Does not matter.	Brutus R Yates	06:01
48	35	22	0.39	Go thank a llama: Teams develop synthetic 'nanobodies' to fight COVID-19	Mark Sumner	23:12
49	34	11	0.38	More Evidence That Trump Will Continue Stumbling Along: Trump Only Told Good News.	Merlin1963	00:15
50	33	17	0.38	Trump and his allies greet racist QAnon ally with warm embrace after her primary win	Jeff Singer	21:59
51	31	100	0.36	PWB Peeps: Toosdai Evening: Srs Not-Srs Poetry for Today, August 11, illustrated!	elenacarlena	08:01
52	31	33	0.35	Remembering Jerry	SFSister	09:27
53	31	30	0.37	In Formation: 70% of Trump followers could be "anakisks"	annieli	05:09
54	31	14	0.34	Sumner Redstone ?starved a generation of workers? of benefits but 'rest in peace'	Lauren Floyd	02:12
55	29	44	0.31	Top Comments: Masked Edition	brillig	07:00
56	29	36	0.31	Overnight News Digest August 11, 2020	Chitown Kev	08:59
57	28	11	0.31	Trump, and Intelligence	Dan K	21:03
58	27	93	0.30	Daily Bucket - When Did I last See That Creature?	lostintheozarks	19:00
59	27	27	0.31	About that Emerson Minnesota poll	A Citizen	03:43
60	24	101	0.39	Live coverage: Aug. 11, 2020 primaries and runoffs	Daily Kos Elections	06:00
61	23	24	0.29	President Obama's Executive Orders Were From God, Says Trump Adviser Navarro	wdrath	17:49
62	22	105	0.50	Look For A Shake Up At The Top Of The GOP Ticket Next Week	Mystic54	01:09
63	22	88	0.24	New Day Cafe: Ads We Love To Hate	The Marti	19:30
64	21	43	0.25	08/12 OT: Cancel Culture isn't a thing, it's propaganda	enhydra lutris	18:06
65	21	11	0.22	Photo Diary: Fort DeSoto, FL	Lenny Flank	00:43
66	20	110	0.25	Morning Open Thread -- Favorite Movie Songs	Otteray Scribe	15:30
67	20	33	0.26	The choice has been made. Attacking the ticket or either member on it is helping Trump !	Dem	18:24
68	20	13	0.22	Polls Show Some Republican House Seats Surprisingly Competitive in Swing States	mastergardener2k	02:59
69	19	77	0.21	Kitchen Table Kibitzing 8/11/2020: Storm Troupers	belinda ridgewood	05:30
70	19	4	0.20	Yosef's Treasure Trove of Get Out The Vote Information! (It's WAY Cool!)	Yosef 52	21:00
71	18	87	0.29	The First 10 Days of a Biden-Harris Administration	wdrath	23:05
72	18	25	0.24	Donald Trump's Nickname For Kamala Harris: Marge Simpson (no, this is not snark)	Proginoskes	04:59
73	18	17	0.21	OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Calls Out Trump For Considering Executive Order To F* With Vote-By-Mail**	poopdogcomedy	09:43
74	17	26	0.24	AZ-Sen: McSally (R), "GOP would never get the Senate back if D.C. and Puerto Rico were states"	poopdogcomedy	21:47
75	17	7	0.18	Stephanie Ruhle calls out GOP's false concern for the deficit	Egberto Willies	15:00
76	17	6	0.19	KS-Sen: New Poll Confirms A Toss Up Race Between Barbara Bollier (D) & Roger Marshall (R)	poopdogcomedy	02:01
77	15	101	0.16	Resistance at #TheVillage 8.12.20	DeeQuilter86	16:00
78	14	32	0.23	Okay, let's talk about what's happened to the Drudge Report.	Vae	22:52
79	14	19	0.18	Donald Trump's Campaign Is Being Run By At Least One Moron	StevenJoseph	20:14
80	14	19	0.17	The NY Times Reports Russia is waging a disinformation campaign. Big. Fcking. Deal.	xaxnar	05:22
81	14	12	0.17	Remember when Kamala Harris pwned DJT jr?	mspicata	22:42
82	13	15	0.16	What some Dems apparently can't see, but Trump surely can and will love	Grouser	22:03
83	10	34	0.16	What's Your Favorite John Sayles Movie?	Blue York	16:44
84	9	70	0.22	Progressives Should Embrace Kamala Harris for VP	Liberal Thinking	04:00
85	6	800	0.54	Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 8/12	Daily Kos Elections	18:00
86	5	49	0.24	Trump/Trump will challenge Biden/Harris in '24	Old Lefty	05:35
87	4	80	0.25	Join Christian Conservative Republicans to vote for Trump.	johncoby	22:14
88	3	271	0.37	I Am NOT Happy About The Kamala Pick	Kalisiin	14:56
89	1	103	0.29	Biden/Harris are 'good enough' for now.	Ryan in FL	22:56
90		104	0.39	Don't Trust Biden.	sitcom	18:54

Impact total: 92.0

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 13, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 14, 2020 · 11:56 AM PDT

2020/08/14 · 11:56

2020-08-13 00:00:17 - 2020-08-13 23:47:33 UTC; DailyKos stories = 184; 184 per day; 7.7 per hour

Yesterday 133 Kogs posted 184 stories of which 182 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2232 recommending readers; 118 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 63 by 30 or more, and 32 by 100 or more. Commenters (2285) visited 183 stories; 99 had 10 or more commenters, 44 had 30 or more, and 12 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Fri Aug 14 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 184 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 110.0

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 11, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday August 12, 2020 · 10:16 AM PDT

2020/08/12 · 10:16

2020-08-11 00:00:14 - 2020-08-11 23:51:47 UTC; DailyKos stories = 173; 173 per day; 7.2 per hour

Yesterday 136 Kogs posted 173 stories of which 168 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 2197 recommending readers; 123 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 67 by 30 or more, and 34 by 100 or more. Commenters (2541) visited 172 stories; 102 had 10 or more commenters, 54 had 30 or more, and 9 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Wed Aug 12 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 173 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 121.3

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B084R8QTVD/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_iEgOEZ_2_2 https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B084R8QTVD/ref=atv_hm_hom_1_c_iEgOEZ_2_2

High Impact Stories: August 10, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday August 12, 2020 · 10:14 AM PDT

2020/08/12 · 10:14

2020-08-10 00:00:05 - 2020-08-10 23:59:28 UTC; DailyKos stories = 157; 157 per day; 6.5 per hour

Yesterday 119 Kogs posted 157 stories of which 149 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1991 recommending readers; 93 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 55 by 30 or more, and 31 by 100 or more. Commenters (2013) visited 157 stories; 78 had 10 or more commenters, 37 had 30 or more, and 6 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Tue Aug 11 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 157 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 93.0

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 9, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday August 10, 2020 · 3:39 PM PDT

2020/08/10 · 15:39

2020-08-09 00:00:03 - 2020-08-09 23:43:49 UTC; DailyKos stories = 146; 146 per day; 6.1 per hour

Yesterday 124 Kogs posted 146 stories of which 140 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1643 recommending readers; 92 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 37 by 30 or more, and 17 by 100 or more. Commenters (1482) visited 146 stories; 71 had 10 or more commenters, 22 had 30 or more, and 6 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Mon Aug 10 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 146 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 65.5

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

Week's High Impact Stories: August 1-7, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday August 09, 2020 · 7:45 AM PDT

2020/08/09 · 07:45

2020-08-01 00:00:15 - 2020-08-07 23:50:49 UTC; DailyKos stories = 1103; 157 per day; 6.6 per hour

This week 522 Kogs posted 1103 stories of which 1057 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 4153 recommending readers; 708 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 401 by 30 or more, and 216 by 100 or more. Commenters (6178) visited 1100 stories; 587 had 10 or more commenters, 268 had 30 or more, and 76 had 100 or more.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 1103 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.22
AVERAGE	0.67
MAX	6.78
TOTAL	743.64 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 107 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.12 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	1103	1057	708	401	216
commenters	1103	1100	587	268	76
connections	1103	1057	839	517	244

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	6178	2418	515	3490	245
RECOMMEND	2418	4153	246	1734	245
WRITE	515	246	522	6	245

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	61538
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	7919 x 522 = 4133718
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	1.5 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	61538 / 7919 = 7.77

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	date
1	593	588	6.78	Do not vote by mail. I repeat: DO NOT VOTE BY MAIL! Do this instead.	liberaldad2	08/02
2	586	413	6.47	Blumenthal Tweets an Ominous Message - Time for a Leak	Chilipalmer	08/05
3	565	405	6.29	Krugman Nails the GOP Hide to the Wall	Dan K	08/01
4	556	419	6.14	People from around the world watched a video on COVID in America. They could not believe their eyes	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/03
5	530	358	5.78	Controlled experiment on children conducted in Georgia, results not pleasant	RedDan	08/01
6	527	650	6.40	Confused Trump can't understand how many Americans are dying of coronavirus in shocking interview	Laura Clawson	08/04
7	513	701	6.52	Tucker Carlson says it's 'probably illegal' for Joe Biden to pick a Black woman as vice president	Hunter	08/04
8	509	1266	6.69	Karen Bass fails VP vetting; Duckworth, Rice, Harris, and Warren still in the hunt	kos	08/01
9	501	178	5.39	Federal judge basically begs the Supreme Court to overturn qualified immunity	Laura Clawson	08/05
10	487	124	5.19	"THIS IS NOT ON TEACHERS." Mic drop by a school counselor.	Witgren	08/03
11	474	164	5.08	The McConnell Burma-Shave signs saga, including the conservative neighbors	ForwardKY	08/03
12	471	353	5.51	'It?s not cute anymore': Republicans suddenly realize Trump sucks	Kerry Eleveld	08/04
13	466	279	5.07	Daily Kos, please help me wish a Happy Birthday to a history maker named Denise Oliver-Velez!	abluerippleinohio	08/02
14	448	276	4.98	I know it's George Conway. But really, you should read	teacherken	08/04
15	445	165	4.74	Don, Jared & An Italian Guy Answer The One Question About The Holocaust I Thought I'd Never Know	freewayblogger	08/04
16	415	450	4.88	A sad example of MAGA self delusion.	Witgren	08/02
17	411	341	4.71	Trump's Axios interview was impossibly bad at an impossibly bad political moment	Kerry Eleveld	08/05
18	405	189	4.43	THIS IS IMPORTANT: Ed Yong's Atlantic article is an absolute MUST READ!!	teacherken	08/04
19	395	169	4.25	After federal forces leave Portland, peace returns?but white nationalists don't want it to remain	Mark Sumner	08/01
20	390	245	4.37	Kansas governor angered after House Speaker attended meeting, didn't disclose COVID hospitalization	Jen Hayden	08/07
21	387	669	4.73	Massive super-spreader COVID-19 event now underway in South Dakota	Dartagnan	08/08
22	386	223	4.28	Black mother records sergeant attempting quid pro quo after her teen son is bashed in head	Lauren Floyd	08/04
23	372	483	4.51	Trump's brain glitches as he tries to pronounce the name of one of America's greatest parks	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/04
24	371	386	4.22	A Democratic wave pickup of 10 Senate seats is a real possibility	kos	08/01
25	362	326	4.17	NY AG Letitia James to make Major National Announcement Today at 11:30am ET - NRA Fraud	ericlewis0	08/06
26	353	225	3.73	Shortfinals is facing a stunning heartbreak. (with Update #3 a Quilt!)	Otteray Scribe	08/03
27	344	131	3.69	On President Obama at John Lewis's Funeral: They can't "Wellstone Memorial" us anymore.	Bethesda 1971	08/02
28	336	256	3.81	'He still doesn't get it,' says Trump pandemic task force source as Trump spouts latest delusions	Hunter	08/05
29	331	231	3.81	Chuck Todd: "it seems as if the president's, like, given up on doing the job of being president"	Lefty Coaster	08/02
30	329	337	3.90	Fauci?s daughters live all over the U.S. Due to death threats, he?s hired security for all of them	Aysha Qamar	08/07
31	324	155	3.55	What happens when red states pass blue states in #COVID19 cases per capita? We're about to find out.	Brainwrap	08/06
32	320	145	3.44	The Bank Called this Morning	Pule4Puna	08/04
33	316	248	3.58	Trump may be sinking the party, but it's too late for Republicans to sail away	Mark Sumner	08/01
34	315	175	3.37	Listen to the difference an anonymous anti-racist can make	rflctammt	08/05
35	312	392	3.79	Two high schoolers say they've been suspended for posting photos of packed hallways amid pandemic	Marissa Higgins	08/07
36	312	106	3.32	strong op ed by Lt Col Alexander Vindman, (ret)	teacherken	08/01
37	310	164	3.44	Trump attempts an international COVID comparison; it doesn't go well	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/02
38	310	148	3.39	Trump administration insisted Rep. Ra?l Grijalva hold hearings in person. Now he has COVID-19	Jessica Sutherland	08/02
39	307	262	3.45	Even if Biden were guaranteed victory, I would stand in line all damn day to vote	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/04
40	305	441	3.56	I know why you hate the New Front Page	siab	08/06
41	303	140	3.36	Republicans Let Slip How They Think Justice Works	Dan K	08/07
42	301	110	3.24	Dr. Fauci goes to the Hill and flattens Gym Jordan	AKALib	08/01
43	301	110	3.24	The One Where We Learned Jared Kushner Was Cool With COVID-19 Killing People in Blue States	ShowerCap	08/01
44	300	368	3.67	A day after Trump encounters yet another tiny crowd in Florida, RNC announces convention press ban	Jessica Sutherland	08/02
45	300	151	3.35	After White House reporters bow out of covering Mike Pence trip, Pence taps Some Guy to fill in	Hunter	08/07
46	298	164	3.28	Mississippi school reopens, and immediately has to place students in quarantine	Mark Sumner	08/01
47	296	535	3.81	Trump: Biden will 'hurt the Bible' and 'hurt God'	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/06
48	296	97	3.18	Arizona's Ra?l Grijalva tests positive for Covid	Mother Mags	08/01
49	293	452	3.79	Why Does Trump have a Bruise on His Hand?	Dan K	08/03
50	291	177	3.26	Trump's anti-mail crusade is sowing the seeds of his own electoral demise	Dartagnan	08/04
51	288	110	3.13	Poor Devin Nunes: Another Day, Another Dismissal.	BeeD	08/06
52	281	196	3.22	Pelosi schools ABC host as she tried to slam Democratic governor on COVID-19 resurgence	Egberto Willies	08/03
53	280	347	3.34	Trump does end-run around Senate, naming Tata to Pentagon role over Republican objections	Hunter	08/03
54	280	148	3.11	Manhattan DA subpoenaed Trump's financial records from Deutsche Bank and got them	Kerry Eleveld	08/06
55	276	253	3.22	Teacher?s viral essay shows how Trump?s COVID-19 failures are turning Republicans away from party	Aysha Qamar	08/06
56	274	370	2.94	UPDATED WITH A MESSAGE FROM NATE! This Man Should Strike Terror in Every Trumpist: Saturday's GNR	GoodNewsRoundup	08/01
57	274	228	3.03	New Lincoln Project: "Moms"	teacherken	08/02
58	274	445	3.43	Trump says Biden will 'hurt God,' but Biden's response makes it clear whose faith is deeper	Laura Clawson	08/07
59	273	407	3.46	Falwell deletes yet another photo on social media, but not before it's captured by Twitter users	Aysha Qamar	08/04
60	273	215	3.15	Nancy Pelosi calls out Andrea Mitchell for allowing another Trump media distraction	Egberto Willies	08/06
61	264	83	2.83	Crawfish guestworkers: 'We went to the hospital for COVID-19 treatment, and our employer fired us'	cdmigrante	08/05
62	261	130	2.86	Presented w/o Comment.	AlyoshaKaramazov	08/05
63	260	236	3.06	Kanye West's bizarre 'presidential campaign' seems little more than a Republican sabotage scheme	Hunter	08/06
64	253	221	2.86	Trump goes on the attack after Nevada passes vote-by-mail	Laura Clawson	08/03
65	252	273	2.85	Ambition, likability, and looks: The media has a lot to atone for in covering Biden VP pick	Laura Clawson	08/07
66	250	115	2.79	Trump's latest ad has doctored images--and mocks Biden for praying	Christian Dem in NC	08/06
67	249	106	2.65	A day in a Covid-19 ICU	Angie P	08/02
68	247	329	2.96	New York attorney general files suit to dissolve National Rifle Association over stolen funds	Hunter	08/06
69	247	288	2.86	NOW Trump is Lying About - and Trying to Manipulate - the Presidential Debates	News Corpse	08/07
70	247	186	2.75	Democrats confront Trump officials over new policies slowing mail delivery	Laura Clawson	08/06
71	246	73	2.61	Bride in viral video moments before Beirut blast in Lebanon attended to victims in wedding dress	Aysha Qamar	08/07
72	245	297	2.95	Jerry Falwell Jr. It's not the shorts, its the yacht	Greg from Vermont	08/07
73	245	189	2.82	Whistleblower: LA sheriff deputies threw party, got 'executioner' tattoos after shooting suspects	Jen Hayden	08/06
74	244	365	2.69	Sunday Pundit Round-Up: Skinny Round-up	Chitown Kev	08/02
75	244	198	2.69	Lincoln Project posts "Secretary of Failure" about Kushner	teacherken	08/05
76	238	384	3.13	David Brooks has jumped the shark - again - only this time it's brain-killing unreal	xaxnar	08/07
77	238	301	2.76	NY Atty Gen Letitia James announces: dissolve @NRA & oust Wayne LaPierre, its leader	e2247	08/06
78	235	138	2.66	Georgia teen says viral hallway photo that got her suspended was 'good and necessary trouble'	Jen Hayden	08/07
79	235	352	2.64	Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'I'm sorry but it's a fantasy,' on reopening schools safely	Greg Dworkin	08/03
80	232	200	2.59	A weakened Trump desperately tries to preserve his delusions of grandeur	Kerry Eleveld	08/01
81	231	303	2.83	Colorado police detain, handcuff Black girls in mistaken traffic stop in viral video	Marissa Higgins	08/04
82	226	232	2.60	Pelosi hits back at MSNBC host about negotiations 'It's not just about dollars. It's about values'	Egberto Willies	08/07
83	226	188	2.61	As Republicans itch over next possible Supreme Court vacancy, Democrats mull countermeasures	Hunter	08/03
84	225	139	2.41	The Better-Late-Than-Never Friday Pundit Round-up	Chitown Kev	08/07
85	225	416	2.91	'I don?t think he plans to leave the White House': Rep. Clyburn warns Americans to 'wake up'	Marissa Higgins	08/03
86	224	157	2.48	Montana judge orders GOP funded Green Party candidates removed from ballot	MTmofo	08/08
87	223	230	2.54	Trump, McConnell abandon relief talks, leaving Democrats negotiating with rookies	Kerry Eleveld	08/03
88	221	144	2.48	New court filing suggests Trump's the subject of a wide-ranging financial probe by Manhattan DA	Kerry Eleveld	08/03
89	220	299	2.54	unhinged Trump has brought more water for dishwashers as he also claims Joe Biden will "hurt God"	annieli	08/07
90	219	176	2.50	Battleground Texas? Biden campaign announces new moves in the Lone Star State	Laura Clawson	08/04
91	216	378	2.44	Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump is losing on the challenges facing America.	Greg Dworkin	08/01
92	214	179	2.41	Karl Rove tilts the Trump campaign: "We're an empire now and when we act we create our own reality."	annieli	08/02
93	214	311	2.45	Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: This stuff's getting real	Greg Dworkin	08/05
94	212	244	2.31	Thursday Pundit Round-up: The Deteriorating Economy (for most of us)	Chitown Kev	08/06
95	209	37	2.22	Cartoon: Voter fraud	Nick Anderson	08/04
96	207	161	2.48	All but two states will now face extra coronavirus response cost, Trump decides	Laura Clawson	08/06
97	207	295	2.52	Trump insists he's done more for Black Americans than iconic civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis	Jen Hayden	08/04
98	206	169	2.44	Top GOP senators give Trump the Biden probe he got impeached for trying to force on Ukraine	Kerry Eleveld	08/07
99	191	232	2.31	The hits keep coming: Trump mispronounces 'Thailand' as 'Thigh-land'	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	08/07
100	190	201	2.36	House Republicans giddy over having a messaging strategy	Kerry Eleveld	08/05

Impact total: 357.5

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

The analysis of authors includes total impact, number of stories, and the average impact per post.

Author	impact	stories	imp>0.30	fprec	impact/post
Laura Clawson	61.72	30	30	22	2.06
Kerry Eleveld	38.00	17	17	15	2.24
Hunter	34.35	14	14	11	2.45
annieli	32.13	31	24	31	1.04
Aldous J Pennyfarthing	29.09	12	12	12	2.42
teacherken	24.10	12	11	12	2.01
Marissa Higgins	18.01	9	9	6	2.00
Mark Sumner	17.85	7	7	6	2.55
Aysha Qamar	15.08	6	6	5	2.51
Dan K	14.38	6	4	6	2.40
Jen Hayden	13.13	5	5	4	2.63
Gabe Ortiz	12.89	12	12	10	1.07
Lauren Floyd	12.34	6	6	4	2.06
Egberto Willies	11.63	15	6	15	0.78
Dartagnan	11.40	5	5	5	2.28
kos	10.91	2	2	2	5.46
Witgren	10.26	3	2	3	3.42
Daily Kos Elections	9.66	24	15	19	0.40
Chitown Kev	8.51	7	3	7	1.22
poopdogcomedy	7.98	40	3	39	0.20
Greg Dworkin	7.52	3	3		2.51
Jessica Sutherland	7.06	2	2	1	3.53
liberaldad2	6.78	1	1	1	6.78
David Neiwert	6.69	5	5	5	1.34
Denise Oliver Velez	6.68	4	4	3	1.67
Chilipalmer	6.47	1	1	1	6.47
freewayblogger	6.45	2	2	2	3.23
GoodNewsRoundup	6.21	7	7	7	0.89
xaxnar	5.94	8	5	8	0.74
RedDan	5.78	1	1	1	5.78
Lefty Coaster	5.64	7	3	7	0.81
abluerippleinohio	5.52	3	2	3	1.84
AlyoshaKaramazov	5.47	7	4	7	0.78
ShowerCap	5.42	2	2	2	2.71
ericlewis0	5.30	2	2	2	2.65
BeeD	5.23	6	3	6	0.87
ForwardKY	5.08	1	1	1	5.08
Jeff Singer	5.01	7	6	6	0.72
News Corpse	4.99	7	3	7	0.71
Bill in Portland Maine	4.54	5	5		0.91
AKALib	4.33	4	3	4	1.08
Merlin1963	4.32	2	2	2	2.16
Bethesda 1971	4.25	2	2	2	2.13
Otteray Scribe	4.03	2	2	2	2.01
Brainwrap	3.96	4	1	4	0.99
NotNowNotEver	3.71	7	7	7	0.53
siab	3.56	1	1	1	3.56
Mother Mags	3.52	2	2	2	1.76
Pule4Puna	3.44	1	1	1	3.44
rflctammt	3.37	1	1	1	3.37
Christian Dem in NC	3.31	2	2	2	1.66
David Nir	3.28	3	3	1	1.09
Greg from Vermont	2.95	1	1	1	2.95
e2247	2.83	3	1	3	0.94
cdmigrante	2.83	1	1	1	2.83
MTmofo	2.76	3	1	3	0.92
HalBrown	2.73	6	2	6	0.46
Angie P	2.65	1	1	1	2.65
strawbale	2.59	4	4	4	0.65
lowkell	2.57	3	1	3	0.86
vjr7121	2.41	4	3	4	0.60
Vetwife	2.38	3	1	3	0.79
Yosef 52	2.25	8	2	8	0.28
Nick Anderson	2.22	1	1		2.22
Georgia Logothetis	2.12	1	1		2.12
Indian Country Today News	2.10	1	1	1	2.10
skralyx	2.00	2	1	2	1.00
Anoa Changa	1.89	2	2	2	0.94
SemDem	1.86	1	1	1	1.86
Tom Tomorrow	1.85	1	1		1.85
jamess	1.84	4	2	4	0.46
Jbearlaw	1.80	1	1	1	1.80
The Marti	1.80	4	3	4	0.45
sofistic	1.77	1	1	1	1.77
samanthab	1.74	3	3	3	0.58
Crimson Quillfeather	1.73	4	1	4	0.43
Crashing Vor	1.70	2	2	2	0.85
Jay Cuasay	1.66	2	2	2	0.83
Stephen Wolf	1.66	3	2	3	0.55
randallt	1.65	3	1	2	0.55
keefknight	1.63	1	1		1.63
zenvegan	1.63	1	1	1	1.63
Flowergirl77	1.63	1	1	1	1.63
elenacarlena	1.59	1	1	1	1.59
Ian Reifowitz	1.58	1	1	1	1.58
RhodeIslandAspie	1.52	1	1	1	1.52
Matt Bors	1.51	1	1	1	1.51
chloris creator	1.50	1	1	1	1.50
PagingDrVol	1.46	1	1	1	1.46
karij	1.44	1	1	1	1.44
Irontortoise	1.42	6	1	6	0.24
Jen Sorensen	1.40	1	1		1.40
niftywriter	1.37	1	1	1	1.37
Ojibwa	1.35	6	1	6	0.23
CameronProf	1.34	8		8	0.17
Jessiestaf	1.29	1	1	1	1.29
Black Kos	1.25	2	2	2	0.62
mastergardener2k	1.16	5	3	5	0.23
2thanks	1.16	2	1	2	0.58
pucklady	1.14	1	1	1	1.14

Impact total: 645.0 The analysis of readers includes the number of recommendations awarded, the number of authors recommended, the number and percent of their recommendations on the most recommended list (conversion) and a ratio reflecting how much better the recommendations they made matched the top hit list than would the same number of random picks.

READER	REC	AUTHORS	TopHits	conversion	ratio
roses	422	183	88	20.85	2.30
eeff	417	174	89	21.34	2.35
reppa	377	168	98	25.99	2.87
Cronesense	334	142	83	24.85	2.74
WYgalinCali	314	98	78	24.84	2.74
slowbutsure	248	112	91	36.69	4.05
dewtx	248	91	91	36.69	4.05
ET3117	240	107	78	32.50	3.58
rja	240	83	81	33.75	3.72
Poohze	228	74	74	32.46	3.58
FarWestGirl	225	113	66	29.33	3.24
ellenak	223	85	84	37.67	4.15
catlady3	219	117	67	30.59	3.37
McGovern78	211	55	54	25.59	2.82
CompaniaHill	210	86	80	38.10	4.20
PaulinFtLupton	204	95	82	40.20	4.43
libera nos	204	112	54	26.47	2.92
Andrew F Cockburn	201	81	88	43.78	4.83
malapert	199	71	64	32.16	3.55
Noah Andersen	198	74	80	40.40	4.46
Laurel in CA	196	78	89	45.41	5.01
hbk	193	74	67	34.72	3.83
PrahaPartizan	191	56	59	30.89	3.41
MKSinSA	186	125	39	20.97	2.31
zoom314	182	61	52	28.57	3.15
GlastoSara	173	62	77	44.51	4.91
gizmo59	173	78	69	39.88	4.40
DiegoUK	167	79	58	34.73	3.83
tofumagoo	167	69	68	40.72	4.49
sockpuppet	165	71	62	37.58	4.14
Lee Montana	159	73	75	47.17	5.20
page394	159	96	56	35.22	3.88
Tin woman1	157	87	36	22.93	2.53
elwior	157	71	66	42.04	4.64
chimpy	157	68	62	39.49	4.36
emaycee	156	54	73	46.79	5.16
blslarner	155	69	49	31.61	3.49
Jake Williams	148	83	68	45.95	5.07
peacestpete	148	81	53	35.81	3.95
Cecelia S	147	36	34	23.13	2.55
HedwigKos	144	94	50	34.72	3.83
ratcityreprobate	143	51	51	35.66	3.93
greenharper	142	71	67	47.18	5.20
dmhlt 66	141	68	49	34.75	3.83
alaskahiatt	140	59	53	37.86	4.18
bjwchxMI	139	69	65	46.76	5.16
MrsTarquinBiscuitbarrel	139	77	61	43.88	4.84
ericlewis0	138	70	42	30.43	3.36
kurt	137	88	32	23.36	2.58
kashani	136	62	56	41.18	4.54
oldhippywoman	135	78	40	29.63	3.27
CA Nana	135	68	65	48.15	5.31
side pocket	134	65	38	28.36	3.13
jrickball	132	70	52	39.39	4.35
2n10	132	69	35	26.52	2.92
profundo	132	76	66	50.00	5.52
somewhereupnorth	131	64	58	44.27	4.88
Kansas Born	129	71	53	41.09	4.53
djtroops	128	44	46	35.94	3.96
Lallyn	126	59	46	36.51	4.03
rsunde	126	67	46	36.51	4.03
Reader Ray	125	81	52	41.60	4.59
Jonny Manz	124	58	57	45.97	5.07
Steven Park	124	59	46	37.10	4.09
Railfan	124	47	49	39.52	4.36
CamillesDad1	124	71	47	37.90	4.18
luckylizard	124	64	35	28.23	3.11
elizawhig1	123	46	50	40.65	4.48
Lesele	122	50	64	52.46	5.79
Eliamias	122	52	53	43.44	4.79
third Party please	122	78	43	35.25	3.89
djgreeneyes	120	58	66	55.00	6.07
FindingMyVoice	120	70	53	44.17	4.87
PitaRocks	118	75	40	33.90	3.74
KenBee	118	61	41	34.75	3.83
slice	117	46	60	51.28	5.66
Wintermute	117	51	60	51.28	5.66
tvoss123	112	84	43	38.39	4.23
mittenstheunrulykitten	112	61	57	50.89	5.61
Alumbrados	112	47	46	41.07	4.53
bbctooman	111	60	61	54.95	6.06
LamontCranston	111	55	45	40.54	4.47
Lefty Coaster	111	57	41	36.94	4.07
HollyValera	109	61	41	37.61	4.15
Lake of Shadows	106	52	47	44.34	4.89
GardeningGal	106	73	48	45.28	4.99
notbroken	106	55	61	57.55	6.35
misterwade	106	55	52	49.06	5.41
Kravortek	105	44	51	48.57	5.36
Kluger2	104	55	59	56.73	6.26
evrgreen	104	58	48	46.15	5.09
GAS	104	53	38	36.54	4.03
mlleelizabeth	104	55	46	44.23	4.88
RUkidnme	103	49	58	56.31	6.21
insomnambulist	103	54	47	45.63	5.03
Leo Orionis	102	31	43	42.16	4.65
cminus	101	58	47	46.53	5.13
kevinpdx	101	50	34	33.66	3.71
thehecticdialectic	101	50	58	57.43	6.33
No one gets out alive	99	55	53	53.54	5.90
OldGrammy	99	62	41	41.41	4.57
Amaze	98	51	72	73.47	8.10
Moreplease	98	51	50	51.02	5.63
dotdash2u	98	56	55	56.12	6.19
crystaline	97	50	37	38.14	4.21
SouthernLeveller	96	46	33	34.38	3.79
silverfox43	95	51	50	52.63	5.81
ksmoore777	95	59	44	46.32	5.11
LaPinturaBella	95	56	43	45.26	4.99
Abinold	95	41	39	41.05	4.53
Sixty Something	95	49	50	52.63	5.81
JeffinQC	95	59	36	37.89	4.18
ladybug53	95	56	32	33.68	3.72
maggiejean	94	54	47	50.00	5.52
zerelda	94	69	48	51.06	5.63
Ojibwa	93	59	20	21.51	2.37
Wino	93	52	45	48.39	5.34
StevenJoseph	93	53	44	47.31	5.22
njm5000	92	54	28	30.43	3.36
Therese58	92	53	33	35.87	3.96

      rec  = number of posts recommended
   authors = number of authors recommended
   TopHits = number of recommended stories in top hit list
conversion = 100 * TopHits/rec; percent of recommended stories on top hit list
     ratio = TopHits/predicted, where
 predicted = ntop * rec/nstories, where
      ntop = number of stories in top hit list = 100
  nstories = total number of stories= 1103

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 8, 2012

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday August 09, 2020 · 7:41 AM PDT

2020/08/09 · 07:41

2020-08-08 00:15:02 - 2020-08-08 23:59:35 UTC; DailyKos stories = 135; 135 per day; 5.6 per hour

Yesterday 119 Kogs posted 135 stories of which 132 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1866 recommending readers; 88 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 46 by 30 or more, and 24 by 100 or more. Commenters (1655) visited 135 stories; 77 had 10 or more commenters, 28 had 30 or more, and 8 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Sun Aug 9 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 135 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 77.4

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 7, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Saturday August 08, 2020 · 8:49 AM PDT

2020/08/08 · 08:49

Downloaded from BBC 8.8.2020 URL:https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/DCEB/production/_84655565_gettyimages-53338964.jpg — Nagasaki, Japan Augustt 8, 1945

2020-08-07 00:00:08 - 2020-08-07 23:50:49 UTC; DailyKos stories = 161; 161 per day; 6.7 per hour

Yesterday 123 Kogs posted 161 stories of which 152 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1731 recommending readers; 94 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 47 by 30 or more, and 28 by 100 or more. Commenters (1875) visited 160 stories; 77 had 10 or more commenters, 33 had 30 or more, and 8 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Sat Aug 8 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 161 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.16
AVERAGE	0.49
MAX	3.44
TOTAL	78.97 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 17 diaries, the lowest receiving 1.53 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	161	152	94	47	28
commenters	161	160	77	33	8
connections	161	152	122	67	30

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1875	711	121	1087	44
RECOMMEND	711	1731	44	1020	44
WRITE	121	44	123	2	44

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	8573
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	2897 x 123 = 356331
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.4 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	8573 / 2897 = 2.96

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	296	108	3.23	Kansas governor angered after House Speaker attended meeting, didn't disclose COVID hospitalization	Jen Hayden	22:11
2	285	457	3.44	Massive super-spreader COVID-19 event now underway in South Dakota	Dartagnan	01:02
3	243	337	2.92	Trump says Biden will 'hurt God,' but Biden's response makes it clear whose faith is deeper	Laura Clawson	19:24
4	229	216	2.58	Ambition, likability, and looks: The media has a lot to atone for in covering Biden VP pick	Laura Clawson	20:29
5	225	139	2.41	The Better-Late-Than-Never Friday Pundit Round-up	Chitown Kev	18:10
6	218	359	2.90	David Brooks has jumped the shark - again - only this time it's brain-killing unreal	xaxnar	20:53
7	218	276	2.64	Jerry Falwell Jr. It's not the shorts, its the yacht	Greg from Vermont	18:59
8	200	112	2.22	Fauci?s daughters live all over the U.S. Due to death threats, he?s hired security for all of them	Aysha Qamar	21:09
9	191	150	2.17	Pelosi hits back at MSNBC host about negotiations 'It's not just about dollars. It's about values'	Egberto Willies	22:01
10	187	182	2.16	A Smidgeon Of Hope In KY? Quinnipiac Poll Pulls Me Out Of Bitterness and Despair About McGrath.	Merlin1963	07:58
11	185	91	2.05	Georgia teen says viral hallway photo that got her suspended was 'good and necessary trouble'	Jen Hayden	23:53
12	180	117	2.00	Montana judge orders GOP funded Green Party candidates removed from ballot	MTmofo	03:10
13	165	208	2.02	Falwell Taking ?Indefinite Leave of Absence? From His Roles as President/Chancellor of Liberty U	lowkell	02:17
14	165	87	1.79	Bless Your Heart..Donnie boy Powerful answer from Joe Biden over his faith.	Vetwife	23:03
15	164	159	1.96	Turning reality on its head, Cruz claims right-wing ?Boogaloo? killer was ?antifa?	David Neiwert	10:41
16	157	83	1.70	Dear Daily Kos Dept. of Holocaust Protocols, Standards & Practices	freewayblogger	09:36
17	150	41	1.57	Regenerative Culture: Costa Rica Leads the Way, Showing How and Why Reforestation Is Done	elenacarlena	05:30
18	141	61	1.53	Democrats warn intelligence officials are failing to inform Americans of foreign election attacks	Kerry Eleveld	21:51
19	136	309	1.47	Good News Roundup for Friday, August 7, 2020: I Hate this Reality Show	chloris creator	16:00
20	130	73	1.43	North Paulding dress code has 26 major requirements, but wearing a mask would just go too far	PagingDrVol	23:26
21	114	143	1.23	Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Social Distancing FRIDAY!	Bill in Portland Maine	04:21
22	112	147	1.29	Trump Presser: live from 19th tee at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (play 'Hail to the Chief')	annieli	03:37
23	112	121	1.34	If Congress doesn't act, the size of the coming eviction wave is simply mind-blowing	Laura Clawson	21:30
24	109	57	1.22	Trump's quarter-million deaths achievable by election day, US records 1200 deaths yesterday	annieli	14:36
25	106	32	1.14	As Trump promises coronavirus will just 'go away,' it continues burning through America	Kerry Eleveld	00:17
26	105	87	1.19	Trump and GOP are rapidly making the US into a failed state - can we pull ourselves out of the muck?	annieli	09:05
27	105	140	1.28	Negotiations stall and Congress heads home without a COVID-19 stimulus deal	Laura Clawson	17:56
28	100	35	1.10	Biden Releases 25-Second Ad Targeted Just for PA Voters. ?This is Trump?s Economy. It?s a Mess.?	ericlewis0	00:24
29	98	18	1.05	Pelosi welcomes judge's decision against Republicans in proxy voting lawsuit	Laura Clawson	23:23
30	93	23	1.00	Dem senators: Trump's secret police, not 'antifa,' are the real threat to democracy and free speech	David Neiwert	01:34
31	81	322	0.87	PWB: Freiday Furries an' Fings	The Marti	22:45
32	63	11	0.67	Cartoon: Covid-mart's back to school supplies	BrianMcFadden	02:50
33	59	6	0.62	Mississippi families call for family reunification, defunding ICE on anniversary of workplace raids	Gabe Ortiz	20:53
34	58	3	0.61	'Completely out of control': Two immigrants died while in ICE custody this week	Gabe Ortiz	23:07
35	54	58	0.59	PWB Peeps Open Thread: Let's Have a Chat	strawbale	07:00
36	54	9	0.58	ICE rejected COVID-19 testing for all detainees at facility because it would be too much trouble	Gabe Ortiz	00:52
37	47	51	0.51	Joe Biden knows commitment, love, and patience: Day 31 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:03
38	42	49	0.52	Ted Nugent compares the NRA to Jews, New York's AG to the Nazis, and himself to Oskar Schindler	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	04:30
39	40	83	0.42	Black Kos, Week In Review - The Wolof Empire of West Africa	Black Kos	02:00
40	38	13	0.42	Oprah's magazine sponsored 26 Breonna Taylor billboards around Louisville demanding justice	Jen Hayden	00:51
41	33	9	0.35	Cartoon: MAGA mail	Mark Fiore	16:50
42	32	36	0.34	Republicans Have No Vision - Evening Shade, Friday	NotNowNotEver	04:30
43	32	19	0.36	It's Official: Russia is actively working to Re-elect their US Stooge	jamess	01:25
44	31	84	0.35	The Daily Bucket - Bird Watching A.B.C.'s	CaptBLI	19:00
45	31	10	0.34	"The cold, flat reality is he can't govern ! " - one of the very best RVAT videos-worth watching!	Dem	01:56
46	30	4	0.32	CNN- Multiple Advisers Withheld Military Options from Trump for Fear He Might Start Wars	AlyoshaKaramazov	00:12
47	30	5	0.32	Morning Digest: In Saturday primary, Honolulu voters may choose new path on criminal justice	Daily Kos Elections	17:00
48	29	24	0.31	Overnight News Digest: Suicides of homeless Americans exposes the neglect of people	Magnifico	08:59
49	28	18	0.30	Top Comments: The Man who Could Read But Couldn't Recognize Numerals	gizmo59	07:06
50	28	15	0.32	Herman Cain's deadly legacy: Uncounted deaths over 20 years.	Bethesda 1971	04:20
51	28	9	0.30	KS-Sen: PPP Shows A Toss Up Race Between Dr. Barbara Bollier (D) & Rep. Roger Marshall (R)	poopdogcomedy	20:45
52	28	9	0.30	Professor Dr. Eddie Glaude unloads on Trump?s silly claim about his works for black folk.	Egberto Willies	19:55
53	27	24	0.33	U.S. issues New Zealand travel advisory because of the country's '23 active cases'	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:45
54	27	22	0.33	Republicans for Biden yard signs	JoeTheVoter	03:05
55	27	21	0.32	We are not yet at the acme of the Trumpian disinformation campaign or that 'October Surprise'	annieli	11:10
56	26	97	0.30	Morning Open Thread - John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (1965)	P Carey	15:00
57	26	31	0.31	Wild Beavers Are Back In England - To Stay	Lib Dem FoP	05:54
58	26	19	0.30	Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to be held over the fears and objections of local residents	Laura Clawson	00:10
59	26	15	0.29	From the Dumbass Files: Voyage of the Dumbed.	BeeD	18:00
60	25	5	0.26	Bernie Sanders Allies Super PAC Launches First Major Ad In Support Of Joe Biden	poopdogcomedy	00:45
61	23	13	0.26	Alabama state lawmaker criticized for honoring KKK founder turns himself in on theft warrant	committed	03:01
62	23	4	0.24	This Week in Statehouse Action: Hurricane You Dig It edition	Carolyn Fiddler	06:08
63	22	169	0.25	New Day Cafe - Friday: Inner Reality	Crimson Quillfeather	19:30
64	21	57	0.30	What are you reading? August 7, 2020	Chitown Kev	16:30
65	21	27	0.26	Yep, the new Daily Kos front page sucks on mobile too	westladem	21:55
66	21	9	0.23	Trump's Wunderwaffen	Kokopelli2018	00:21
67	21	4	0.22	Arizona Republicans fear state Senate nominee could jeopardize their hold on the chamber	Jeff Singer	04:21
68	20	7	0.22	Racist rant by Leelanau County Michigan Road Commissioner	CameronProf	19:13
69	20	5	0.22	I'm so sorry, Michelle.	Feed	12:22
70	18	103	0.21	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: Thurs., Aug. 6	boatsie	05:30
71	16	4	0.17	GA-Sen A: Roll Call Adds Sen. David Perdue (R) To Their Top 10 Most Vulnerable Senators List	poopdogcomedy	06:13
72	16	3	0.17	Marine Veteran kneels for 9 hrs. at Utah Capitol to Protest Injustice for POC w Mental Health Issues	Lefty Coaster	09:01
73	15	17	0.18	"The sad thing is that you find common sense is not as common as people believe."	committed	20:04
74	15	12	0.18	White guy attacks officers, chokes one. Not shot.	tln41	08:17
75	15	7	0.17	TODAY IN CONGRESS: COVID Relief Bill Talks Stalled For The Weekend!	Doctor Who	17:41
76	14	26	0.15	Mojo Friday - Will History Call It "The Trump/GOP Attempted Genocide? - Edition	TexDem	19:30
77	14	4	0.15	The Most Dangerous Internal Enemy America Has Ever Had Has Not Yet Been Defeated. Now GOTV!!!	Yosef 52	02:56
78	13	8	0.15	Pandemic exposed American Exceptionalism as a fraud, US unlikely to regain former world standing	Lefty Coaster	01:02
79	12	27	0.16	Not wearing a mask in social situations is akin to drunk driving and should be punished accordingly	boblite	21:07
80	11	35	0.18	Live Coverage: 2020 Tennessee primaries	Daily Kos Elections	05:00
81	9	88	0.25	What's the deal with the GOP taunting that they'd love Biden to pick Susan Rice?	KKwriter	05:36
82	6	498	0.49	Daily Kos Elections Live Digest: 8/7	Daily Kos Elections	18:00
83	5	130	0.24	Daily Kos Elections weekly open thread	Daily Kos Elections	03:00
84	3	56	0.19	Obama For VP	djadjc	06:04
85	3	42	0.18	Democrats are Falling Headlong into GOP trap	ukoh003	23:50

Impact total: 73.6

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 6, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday August 07, 2020 · 10:57 AM PDT

2020/08/07 · 10:57

2020-08-06 00:00:20 - 2020-08-06 23:59:47 UTC; DailyKos stories = 176; 176 per day; 7.3 per hour

Yesterday 137 Kogs posted 176 stories of which 172 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1834 recommending readers; 112 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 61 by 30 or more, and 32 by 100 or more. Commenters (1958) visited 175 stories; 83 had 10 or more commenters, 36 had 30 or more, and 9 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Fri Aug 7 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 176 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 95.4

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 5, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday August 06, 2020 · 11:24 AM PDT

2020/08/06 · 11:24

2020-08-05 00:00:04 - 2020-08-05 23:52:20 UTC; DailyKos stories = 170; 170 per day; 7.1 per hour

Yesterday 127 Kogs posted 170 stories of which 160 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1857 recommending readers; 106 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 56 by 30 or more, and 29 by 100 or more. Commenters (1963) visited 169 stories; 84 had 10 or more commenters, 41 had 30 or more, and 7 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Thu Aug 6 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 170 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 82.4

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
author - Hyperlink to the post authors Daily Kos home page.
  time - Post time shown as time of day for daily lists and date for weekly stories.

Please bring any errors to my attention -- jotter

High Impact Stories: August 4, 2020

jotter

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday August 05, 2020 · 8:50 AM PDT

2020/08/05 · 08:50

2020-08-04 00:12:50 - 2020-08-04 23:57:11 UTC; DailyKos stories = 166; 166 per day; 6.9 per hour

Yesterday 130 Kogs posted 166 stories of which 160 were recommended at least once by a cadre of 1972 recommending readers; 110 stories were recommended by 10 or more readers, 54 by 30 or more, and 24 by 100 or more. Commenters (2112) visited 165 stories; 91 had 10 or more commenters, 33 had 30 or more, and 10 had 100 or more.

Recommendations and comments were collected Wed Aug 5 08:00:04 2020 UTC.

IMPACT STATISTICS FROM ALL 166 POSTS
MINIMUM	0.01
MEDIAN	0.20
AVERAGE	0.65
MAX	7.35
TOTAL	86.49 bharns
50% of total impact	earned by top 12 diaries, the lowest receiving 2.25 bharns

Story Impact Distribution
Stories with >=	0	1	10	30	100
recommendations	134	132	98	44	22
commenters	134	134	71	27	8
connections	134	132	111	59	26

KOG ACTIVITY*
KOGS WHO...	COMMENT	RECOMMEND	WRITE A POST	ONLY	ALL
COMMENT	1848	836	115	944	47
RECOMMEND	836	2049	48	1212	47
WRITE	115	48	119	3	47

* (writes a post, recommends a post, or comments on a post)

User Interaction Statistics (Network)
OBSERVED WRITER-(READER OR WRITER) PAIRS	9743
MAXIMUM POSSIBLE SUCH PAIRS	3064 x 119 = 364616
NETWORK DENSITY (OBSERVED/POSSIBLE)	2.7 %
AVERAGE DEGREE (LINKS/USER)	9743 / 3064 = 3.18

Graph Summary Data

HIGH IMPACT POSTS
RANK	nrec	ncom	impact	post	Author	time
1	661	539	7.35	On Monday, Cedar Rapids, Iowa was leveled. Thanks for your lack of concern.	committed	09:52
2	436	279	4.69	BLM, Antifa Overwhelm Armed White Racists in Stone Mountain, GA.	WB Reeves	08:09
3	399	450	4.32	Postal Workers Unions Urged Sanders to Block Pro-Privatization Board Nominees	FishOutofWater	19:06
4	354	142	3.84	Kamala Harris 1 minute before she goes live is the thing I needed today	SemDem	07:04
5	330	522	4.06	Limbaugh calls Sen Harris a ho. 1000s of advertisers and 100+ pro teams and universities endorse it.	certainot	18:43
6	300	190	3.29	Game changing Saliva test for Covid-19. $4 per test. Approved by FDA. UPDATE	prizmordial	06:09
7	284	223	3.22	Trump's campaign IS the cesspool of corruption and incompetence we thought it was	kos	22:45
8	282	240	3.27	'Let them rot': The supposed U.S. president retweets attack on 'Democrat cities'	Hunter	23:32
9	241	250	2.63	Sunday Pundit Round-up: Trump's (un)appeal for now	Chitown Kev	16:30
10	239	149	2.66	Pelosi Strikes Back!	citixen	04:47
11	227	862	3.06	Bernie Sanders did, indeed, block Obama (Democratic) nominees to USPS board	kos	07:25
12	222	138	2.37	When Reagan Tried to Destroy the Postal Service	6412093	23:43
13	204	358	2.25	These crooners stepped all over Jim Crow with their love songs?and some paid the price	Denise Oliver Velez	17:59
14	187	179	2.12	House Democrats summon Trump Postmaster General to explain sabotages, may return from recess early	Hunter	22:08
15	182	51	1.96	I've found the perfect Biden-Harris ad! Huzzah!	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	02:57
16	152	133	1.65	We Are Trying To Win, Right?	VirginiaWave	04:05
17	150	47	1.59	Complacent. The new ad from the Lincoln Project Helps us get our votes counted	zenvegan	02:27
18	136	206	1.74	Mark Meadows claims lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud is, somehow, 'definition of fraud'	Marissa Higgins	21:45
19	125	130	1.46	Last time, Trump went to a movie with a sibling while his brother died. This time he went golfing.	annieli	17:30
20	115	318	1.27	Trying to kill P.O., Trump bags self ? WhoWonTheWeek? ? Biden Enthusiasm Poll ? Sunday Good News	2thanks	16:02
21	112	133	1.36	Of course he does: Trump wants to meet with Russian president Putin before the November elections	Hunter	02:10
22	110	59	1.19	Trump is Rewriting History again -- and blaming the Democratic Party for his USPS Debacle	jamess	01:30
23	98	81	1.16	Man shoots woman in the arm with BB gun for accidentally removing 'Trump 2020' lawn sign	Aysha Qamar	23:06
24	91	196	0.98	Sekrit Armee Sundai ? Nashunal Tehl A Joak Dai	FosterMomInCA	00:01
25	81	41	0.90	suicide petarders hoisting themselves everywhere on the road to the bunker	annieli	06:12
26	73	34	0.78	Tweets Of The Week Aug 8-15 2020	oldhippiedude	00:00
27	64	23	0.69	Hundreds of Arizona teachers and staff stage sick-out after being forced back into unsafe classrooms	Dartagnan	19:24
28	52	38	0.58	12 pictures, no words, to define the Trump era	Ismay	08:25
29	48	92	0.71	Breaking, with Update: Robert Trump is dead at 71	xaxnar	08:33
30	44	29	0.48	Pelosi in discussions to bring House back early over USPS crisis	Kate in the desert	07:00
31	41	46	0.44	Overnight News Digest: Greenland?s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return	Magnifico	08:59
32	41	35	0.44	Caturday With the Peeps: The Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles	strawbale	07:00
33	41	14	0.45	I have tossed men out of bars..	TheMominator	03:09
34	38	18	0.40	Biden will protect at risk communities from climate change: Day 38 of 100 Days of Loving Joe Biden	GoodNewsRoundup	16:00
35	37	66	0.39	There's a Storm a Comin' - Evening Shade, Sunday	NotNowNotEver	04:34
36	36	27	0.42	Mitt Romney: 'No way to spin' Trump's coronavirus failures	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	06:14
37	35	53	0.38	KosAbility: All the best mask advice from experts, including DIY Instapot decontamination	Besame	04:00
38	35	34	0.38	A Week So Bad It Was Beyond Redemption	Ellid	06:00
39	33	28	0.39	Is Anyone in touch with BFSkinner? UPDATE: All's Well with BF	Sulis247	08:13
40	33	28	0.38	Birtherism 2.0 Fizzles. Trump's People Blame the Media. You know, for Reporting What Trump Said .	AlyoshaKaramazov	03:37
41	33	27	0.37	Museums 201: Sewing machines (photo diary)	Ojibwa	20:30
42	32	31	0.36	USPS: has the damage already been done (elsewhere)	annieli	04:48
43	31	131	0.33	This Week in the War on Women:(Women of Scifi pt 1)& an Historic Election-Week 8/15/20	Angmar	05:00
44	30	7	0.32	Nuts & Bolts: Inside the convention. Is this what conventions should be?	Christopher Reeves	04:30
45	28	40	0.36	Even As Trump Tries To ?Kneecap? The Postal Service, He Demonstrates His Incompetence	dailynooze	20:14
46	28	23	0.33	"Proud Boys" violently face off against counter protesters in Kalamazoo, MI	jbmsurfs	21:56
47	28	17	0.31	'Leave Democrat cities. Let them rot': Trump retweets a deplorable call for division	Aldous J Pennyfarthing	23:26
48	27	79	0.30	The Daily Bucket Open Thread - A slow week.	CaptBLI	19:01
49	27	30	0.31	Democrats Call Postmaster General to 'URGENT HEARING' on 1st Day of GOP Convention 😂	News Corpse	23:12
50	27	15	0.29	Eagle, drone killer of Lake Michigan demonstrates air superiority	annieli	07:20
51	27	9	0.29	Former Alligator Wrestler turned Farmer- joins the fight for Democracy! (In the DEEP RED SOUTH)	FornearforHD79	03:53
52	26	24	0.31	Red state death rate 2.4 times blues states in August	Alan Austin	16:52
53	26	9	0.27	Top Comments - NN2020	BeninSC	07:00
54	25	123	0.27	New Day Cafe: Sunday Coffee .In Pink	The Marti	19:30
55	25	17	0.28	House Oversight Committee moves up DeJoy hearings from September to Monday, August 24th	Thomas Hailey Kloecker	21:27
56	24	53	0.34	While his brother was dying a golfing Trump debuted a giant MAGA billboard on his head	HalBrown	17:35
57	24	52	0.27	Kitchen Table Kibitzing: 8/15/20	TheLittleOne	05:30
58	24	18	0.26	Black Cats Rule	michelewln	01:00
59	23	26	0.30	Rahm Emanuel gives a winning message on beating Trump with the post office debacle.	Egberto Willies	21:51
60	23	5	0.24	DFA CEO Yvette Simpson lays out Trump's Sabotaging the Postal Service in two succinct answers	Lefty Coaster	23:36
61	22	17	0.24	Black Lives Matter in Ironton, Missouri	Sue the Cat	04:25
62	21	36	0.23	Dawn Chorus: Open Thread	Kestrel	21:57
63	21	20	0.25	WHILE TRUMP RAILS AGAINST MAIL-IN VOTING, HIS CAMPAIGN IS SENDING TRUMP-ENDORSED REQUEST FORMS	Munchausen	03:17
64	20	16	0.23	Grokking Trumpists: The False Believer	Mokurai	20:59
65	20	12	0.22	Why Trump Hates the US Post Office? - Because of a Crazy Lie	hughwill	21:44
66	19	18	0.22	A day in the life of the orange one, IMO. I don't think I am wrong.	Vetwife	09:10
67	19	14	0.20	How China Controlled COVID-19 - by Peter Hessler	AKALib	18:07
68	19	12	0.20	Ahead of DNC in MKE, Scott Walker continues to cause problems for Wisconsin.	Jake formerly of the LP	22:35
69	19	10	0.20	Yes, there are Kentuckians who want Mitch defeated as much as you! Come see our video!	Leslie in KY	19:00
70	18	22	0.21	John Eastman, Kamala Harris birther, Has Long History Of Anti-Immigrant, Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry.	The Bassweasel	11:11
71	18	20	0.20	What I've Learned About Funerals During A Coronavirus Pandemic	fisknp	05:29
72	17	61	0.20	Morning Open Thread - Not your typical day.	CaptBLI	15:00
73	17	12	0.19	Andres Guardado video released, no gun visible LASD smear tactics amplify in response	willisnewton	21:32
74	17	7	0.18	The Inoculation Project 8/16/2020: Texas Distance-Learning Supplies	belinda ridgewood	19:00
75	17	6	0.19	Senators on vacation as the Russians keep working	annieli	09:31
76	16	6	0.17	Trump's new COVID-19 medical advisor: an x-ray specialist	Windtalker	03:59
77	16	5	0.17	Why America Must Lead Again - An article for Foreign Affairs Magazine by Joe Biden	OwossoHarpist	19:29
78	16	3	0.17	Powerful Ad From Really American PAC: Rescue Our Votes!	Alfred D Newman	19:12
79	15	8	0.17	Odds & Ends: News/Humor (with a "Who Lost the Week?" poll)	Ed Tracey	20:00
80	14	34	0.18	Secret Emergency Presidential Powers--Terrifying Video	Timaeus	03:48
81	13	21	0.15	Help Save The US Postal Service: Buy Forever Stamps or Gift Items Online plus Facts About USPS	DaisiesArePretty	00:54
82	11	26	0.15	Is a 'Democratic muscular liberalism' that sidelines progressivism, in the US foreign policy future	annieli	01:55
83	6	48	0.20	New York Is In Play???	mtosner	23:44
84	4	40	0.20	New Biden Campaign Slogan Unveiled	juggalo1	07:33

Impact total: 94.5

 nrec  - Number of recommendations.
 ncom  - Number of comments.
impact - Calculated currently using nrec and cnx.
  post - A hyperlink to the Daily Kos post displaying the title.
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