The Breakfast Club (Essential Elements)

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

The Chernobyl nuclear accident; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, killed; Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War; Vermont enacts same-sex civil unions; TV star Lucille Ball dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

I. M. Pei

Breakfast News

Trump’s order to restrict ‘sanctuary cities’ funding blocked by federal judge

Louisiana Senate to consider bill to end death sentences

Panel recommends keeping moratorium on Oklahoma executions

North Korea conducts live-fire drill with US submarine nearby, raising tensions

Hackers have targeted election campaign of Macron, says cyber firm

Chinese court sentences US businesswoman accused of spying

Court removes obstacle to releasing wolves in New Mexico

Several states consider tossing bottle deposit programs

Breakfast Blogs

Republicans Are Already Counting the Days Until They Can Name Another Justice Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

NSA’s Spying on Le Pen Is Probably Working Better than GRU’s Spying on Macron emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel

Daddy Fate Quin Norton, emptywheel

The New Abnormal Echidne, at her blog

A little pre-emptive nuke strike might be just what the doctor ordered digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Freedom sans democracy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Jane Addams: Land of Contrasts driftglass, at his blog

The Biggest Neoliberal in All Neoliberalland Speaks that Neoliberal Language Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

What Did The Trump Whisperers Whisper? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Why Is Congress In Such A Rush To Strip The Library Of Congress Of Oversight Powers On The Copyright Office? Mike Masnick, Techdirt