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
Militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seize its occupants; Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated; Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution in Eastern Europe; Baseball hall-of-famer Cy Young dies; Rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
And that’s the way it is.
Anti-Brexit Ruling Gives Surprise ‘Victory for Parliamentary Democracy’ Canadian judge blasts spy agency for illegally hoarding private data Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish party leaders and MPs US military members could be prosecuted for war crimes in Yemen Ruling Against Pro-GMO Lobby Highlights Dark Money’s “Egregious” Role in State Ballot Fights Despite Paris Climate Pledge, Planet on Track to Surpass 3°C Temperature Rise Your carbon footprint destroys 30 square metres of Arctic sea ice a year
Breakfast Blogs
The FBI Is Self-Destructing at the Worst Possible Moment Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Now Would Be a Good Time to Restore Statutory Authority of DOJ’s Inspector General emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywhee;
How can anyone still be undecided? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Operation Memory Hole: The Noonaning driftglass, at his blog
Hillary vs. The Undead Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Senator Wyden Warns That AT&T’s New Merger Poses A Massive Threat To Net Neutrality Karl Bode, Techdirt