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
Samuel Morse opens America’s first telegraph line; Four men sentenced for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Britain’s Queen Victoria born; The Brooklyn Bridge opens; Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Cats don’t like change without their consent.
Roger Caras
Breakfast News
Austria elects Green candidate as president in narrow defeat for far right
Brazil minister ousted after secret tape reveals plot to topple President Rousseff
Two dozen Guantánamo detainees poised for release under Obama deals
TSA security head removed following ‘mismanagement’ hearing
Chelsea Manning files appeal against ‘grossly unfair’ 35-year prison sentence
Purvi Patel’s lawyers appeal 20-year sentence over self-induced abortion
Black bears flock to claim food in evacuated Fort McMurray homes
Contrasting English and French attitudes to children in restaurants
Breakfast Blogs
President-to-Be Mark Cuban Sees ‘Too Much Uncertainty’ with the Economy Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
On Climate Change, Trump Has Soundbites. GOP Has Actual (Terrible) Ideas. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Vindication for Edward Snowden From a New Player in NSA Whistleblowing Saga Jenna McLaughlin and Dan Froomkin, The Intercept
Mullah Mansour Drone Strike: Important Milestone or Radicalizing Event Jim White, emptywheel
Andrew Sullivan vs. The Children of a Lesser Blog driftglass at his blog