The Breakfast Club (Burning Bridges)

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

Wiley Post completes first solo flight around the world; Robber John Dillinger shot dead; Saddam Hussein’s sons killed in Iraq; The September 11th Commission releases its report; Birth of the Frisbee.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Don Henley

Breakfast News

Interpol circulates list of 173 suspected members of Isis suicide brigade

Fukushima robot finds nuclear fuel debris ‘hanging like icicles’

‘London Whale’ charges dropped against former JP Morgan traders

Rex Tillerson says Qatar’s Gulf neighbours should lift blockade

EU and Britain fail to reach agreement on half of issues in Brexit talks

Sicilian mayor moves to block far-right plan to disrupt migrant rescues

US to ban citizens from travel to North Korea after Otto Warmbier’s death

Boston to fight Islamophobia with viral ‘how to’ transport cartoon

American, Delta and Frontier airlines all slapped with fines for consumer rule violations — nothing for United

Tennessee inmates offered less jail time in return for vasectomies

Scientists solve mystery of rogue signals coming from red dwarf star 11 light-years away

Breakfast Blogs

The Lying Will Now Be Smoother and More Telegenic Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Cillizza Bag bmaz, emptywheel

Trumpnami: Good Luck Staying Ahead of That Rayne, emptywheel

Should Single Men Pay For Pregnancy And Delivery in Their Insurance Policies? Echidne, at her blog

The Resistance is mobilizing digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Better deals. Bluer dogs. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

“I Was Told There Would Be No Math” Scott Lemieux, No More Mister Nice Blog

Dame of Thrones vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

David Brooks: The Great Project Continues driftglass, at his blog

Olive Garden Asks Olive Garden Reviewer Not To Refer To Olive Garden Due To Trademarks Tim Geigner, Techdirt

FCC Won’t Release Data To Support Its Claim A DDOS Attack, Not John Oliver, Brought Down The Agency’s Website