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
Japan signs surrender, officially ending World War II; Union forces occupy Atlanta during the Civil War; A great fire ravages medieval London; Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh dies; Wreckage of the Titanic found.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read. Mark Twain
Breakfast News
Putin on world domination, future wars and life on Mars
France urges Syria transition without Assad
EU’s border stance paves way for Northern Ireland to get special status
Kenyan supreme court annuls Uhuru Kenyatta election victory
Yemen Red Crescent founder dies after being denied treatment
Records of four million Time Warner Cable customers left unsecured: Gizmodo
A judge ruled this veteran is a US citizen. Now he faces deportation to Mexico
California lawmakers block Mojave water bill, Cadiz surges
Breakfast Blogs
Don’t Let the Door Hit You, Sheriff Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Reality Winner Claims NSA’s Collection on Russians Had Already Been Compromised emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Partisanship, Propaganda and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Echidne’s Take. Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Stanford all over Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Both Sides Do It, But the Democrat Party Is More Neoliberal Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 140 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Attention Privileged White Guys driftglass, at his blog
Monumental mistakes, statuary rape, and how New York’s blithering mayor, Bill DeBlasio, blathered his way into a mess The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog
Officers With Personal Body Cams Taking The ‘Public’ Out Of ‘Public Accountability’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt
AT&T Blatantly Lies, Claims Most Consumers Want Net Neutrality Killed Karl Bode, Techdirt
Twitter Suspends Reporter’s Account… After He Gets Targeted By Russian Twitter Bots Mike Masnick, Techdirt