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This Day in History
Adolf Hitler purges rivals in Nazi Germany; America’s food and drug safety take a big step forward; ‘Gone With the Wind’ published; Tonya Harding banned from figure skating; Singer Lena Horne born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.
Lena Horne
Breakfast News
US efforts to regulate encryption have been flawed, government report finds
Senate passes last-minute financial rescue package for Puerto Rico
Congress faults Obama for not being tough with UN over Haiti’s cholera crisis
Millions of Iraqi children repeatedly and relentlessly targeted, says UN
Black box data from EgyptAir flight MS804 shows smoke alarms sounded
Fethullah Gülen lawsuit thrown out in setback for Turkey’s Erdoğan
Breakfast Blogs
Reminder: Education Is Not a Damn Marketplace Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
House Homeland Security Committee Apparently Knows Little about Homeland Security emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Cleveland should be loads of fun digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Just a change of conservative Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Wayback Wednesday: Globalization driftglass, at his blog
Under Cable Lobbying Assault, FCC Commissioners Waffling On Cable Box Competition Plan Karl Bode, Techdirt