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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
Alabama Gov. George Wallace shot on presidential campaign trail; Newly-founded Israel attacked by Arab neighbors; The U.S. Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil.; Country singer June Carter Cash dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
Breakfast News
Illinois governor seeks to reinstate death penalty
Federal judge tells NRA it must use real names in lawsuit
Poor People’s Campaign launches days of protests around US
Seattle backs tax on companies like Amazon to help homeless
Sex-related charge against dropped against Missouri governor
Hawaii volcano eruption costs tourism industry millions
Lay your money down: Court says states can OK sports betting
Early results in Iraq election favor populist cleric al-Sadr
Race is on to set up Europe’s electric car charging network
Russia bank helps Venezuela defy US cryptocurrency sanctions
UN health agency aims to wipe out trans fats worldwide
No deal yet: Italy’s populist leaders differ on key issues
Congo approves use of experimental Ebola vaccine, WHO says
Catalonia’s lawmakers pick fervent separatist as new chief
Thieves suck millions out of Mexican banks in transfer heist
New evidence for water plumes on Jupiter’s moon, Europa
Breakfast Blogs
All Betsy DeVos Knows Is How to Profit From Schoolchildren Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Concord Consulting Aims to Make Russian Bots Legal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Delivering to the deserving (white) poor digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Yep, We’re Definitely Doing Something Right tristero, Hullabaloo
Keep out. This means you. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Intel Community’s Annual Transparency Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers Robyn Greene, Just Security
More Protestors No-Platformed With Live Ammunition Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 241 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
driftglass vs. SPECTRUM driftglass, at his blog
SHUT UP, YOU’RE SILENCING ME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Georgia Governor Vetoes Terrible Cybersecurity Law That Would Have Criminalized Security Research Tim Cushing, Techdirt