The Breakfast Club (Dissidents)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club! We’re a disorganized group of rebel lefties who hang out and chat if and when we’re not too hungover we’ve been bailed out we’re not too exhausted from last night’s (CENSORED) the caffeine kicks in. Join us every weekday morning at 9am (ET) and weekend morning at 10:30am (ET) to talk about current news and our boring lives and to make fun of LaEscapee! If we are ever running late, it’s PhilJD’s fault.

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This Day in History

Pink Floyd releases its best-selling album “The Wall”; Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark born; World Trade Organization’s meeting met by 40-thousand protesters;

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Abbie Hoffman

Breakfast News

German spy chief says Russian hackers could disrupt elections

Security experts join Jill Stein’s recount effort

Canada approves controversial Kinder Morgan oil pipeline

Belgium and Netherlands agree to swap land to simplify border

Firms such as Kellogg’s, Unilever and Nestlé ‘use child-labour palm oil’

Standing Rock protesters hold out against extraordinary police violence

Kellogg pulls ads from Breitbart News: site isn’t ‘aligned with our values’

Intelligence experts urge Obama to end Edward Snowden’s ‘untenable exile’

Breakfast Blogs

Trump Is Trying to Distract Us From … Something Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

McCain Has One Way to Prevent Torture under Trump — Oppose Pompeo and Sessions

Trump hired Tom Delay’s lawyer to give him ethics advice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

FAA Restricts Drones Flying Over Pipeline Protests Spocko, Hullabaloo

Use your leverage? You bet they will Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

David Brooks’ High and Holy Church of Both Siderism driftglass, at his blog

A Chess Genius Or A Two-Year-Old Prone To Temper Tantrums? Echidne, at her blog

Congress Will Be Trump’s Accomplices Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Yes, Many Trump Voter Are Going To Lose Their Healthcare. No, They’re Not Going To Blame Him. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like Karl Bode, Techdirt