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
President Richard Nixon says ‘I am not a crook’; Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England; Suez Canal opens; Congress holds first DC session; Sculptor Auguste Rodin dies; Film director Martin Scorsese born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Children’s hospital in Aleppo hit in airstrikes Russia withdraws signature from international criminal court statute Transatlantic trade deal ‘not realistic’ under Trump, German official says Philando Castile: police officer charged with manslaughter over shooting death Missouri home contaminated by wartime radioactive waste, lawsuit says Twitter suspends American far-right activists’ accounts
Breakfast Blogs
Autocracy: Rules for Survival Masha Gettens, New York Review of Books h/t tristero at Hullabaloo
Russia’s Involvement in the 2016 Election Is Growing by the Day Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
NSA Conducts FISA Section 704 Collection Using Transit Collection emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
No, you’re the puppet Donald digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Unacceptable Is The New Inconceivable driftglass, at his blog
If We Take Steve Bannon At His Word, He Hates All Of His Allies Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Appeals Court To Cops: If You ‘Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Constitutional Bullshit,’ You Don’t Get Immunity Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Rutgers Lecturer Forcibly Sent For Psych Evaluation By NYPD For Some Tweets About The Election Mike Masnick, Techdirt