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 Chernobyl nuclear accident; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, killed; Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War; Vermont enacts same-sex civil unions; TV star Lucille Ball dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
Breakfast News
Trump’s order to restrict ‘sanctuary cities’ funding blocked by federal judge
Louisiana Senate to consider bill to end death sentences
Panel recommends keeping moratorium on Oklahoma executions
North Korea conducts live-fire drill with US submarine nearby, raising tensions
Hackers have targeted election campaign of Macron, says cyber firm
Chinese court sentences US businesswoman accused of spying
Court removes obstacle to releasing wolves in New Mexico
Several states consider tossing bottle deposit programs
Breakfast Blogs
Republicans Are Already Counting the Days Until They Can Name Another Justice Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
NSA’s Spying on Le Pen Is Probably Working Better than GRU’s Spying on Macron emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
Daddy Fate Quin Norton, emptywheel
The New Abnormal Echidne, at her blog
A little pre-emptive nuke strike might be just what the doctor ordered digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Freedom sans democracy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Jane Addams: Land of Contrasts driftglass, at his blog
The Biggest Neoliberal in All Neoliberalland Speaks that Neoliberal Language Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What Did The Trump Whisperers Whisper? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Why Is Congress In Such A Rush To Strip The Library Of Congress Of Oversight Powers On The Copyright Office? Mike Masnick, Techdirt