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
The hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/maximilien_robespierre.html
Breakfast News
State of emergency in Alberta as wildfire forces Fort McMurray evacuation
Spain issues arrest warrants for Russian officials close to Putin
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/04/gmail-yahoo-email-password-hack-hold-security
Big Banks Just Claimed A Constitutional Right To A Taxpayer Subsidy
Feds Tell North Carolina Governor That Anti-LGBT Law Violates Civil Rights Act
Breakfast Blogs
The Reckoning Has Come, and It Is Dark and Painful for Many Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The IC Can’t Even Decide What Is Classified in Hillary’s Emails But They’re Attempting To Do Same on the Internet emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Today In Both Sides Do It: Every Damn Body driftglass at his blog
Donald Who? In The States, It’s The Same Old Republican Party Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
DOJ Deploys Highly-Questionable Legal Arguments In Attempt To Save FBI’s Hacking Warrants Tim Cushing, Techdirt