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.
This Day in History
“Star Wars” premieres; Former Enron execs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted of conspiracy and fraud; Comedian Jay Leno begins his run as host of N-B-C’s “The Tonight Show .
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Breakfast News
Greece begins clearing thousands of refugees from border tent city in Idomeni
Brazil’s Temer seeks constitutional change to curb public spending
Iraq forces keep up shelling of Falluja, U.N. concern mounts for civilians
Ken Starr reportedly fired as Baylor president, university declines comment
Federal authorities to seek death penalty against Dylann Roof
Greece gets new funds approved by eurozone creditors
Investigators raid Google Paris HQ in tax evasion inquiry
Supreme Court down to three major cases this term
US appeals court revisits Texas voter ID law
Ferguson city attorney steps down after criticism
Lawmakers Occupy Hot Car in Push to Allow Pet-Saving Bystanders to Smash Windows
Vet Student Saves Sick Dog From Being Euthanized by Finding Tick
Breakfast Blogs
What Happens When Water for 30 Million People Disappears? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Sad Bastard Divorce Chronicles of David Brooks driftglass at his blog
In Austria, The Vote Demographics Look Awfully Familiar Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Obama Overtime Plan Won’t Hurt Businesses, Executives Admit Zaid Jilani, The Intercept
W. Virginians Can Now Carry Concealed Guns With No Permit Or Training Spocko, Hullabaloo
The Trumpian Song of Sexual Violence Josh Marshall, Editors’ Blog @ Talking Points Memo
Another Court Finds FBI’s NIT Warrants To Be Invalid, But Credits Agents’ ‘Good Faith’ To Deny Suppression Tim Cushing, Techdirt