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
Top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Israel captures fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann; Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde killed; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies; Golf legend Sam Snead dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Breakfast News
Workers plugging energy wells as lava flows nearby
Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police
Workers at Las Vegas hotel-casinos vote on whether to strike
District docked pay for Parkland principal who lost daughter
Experts disclose new details about 300-year-old shipwreck
Groom in arranged marriage at Mall of America dies at 48
NKorea allows SKorean journalists to cover nuke test closing
Palestinians ask ICC to investigate alleged crimes by Israel
Arrested Saudi activists held incommunicado since last week
Venezuelan president expels top US diplomat amid tensions
Congo announces 6 new confirmed cases of Ebola virus
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Cabinet Is Weaponizing Abject Ignorance Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
A Thinking Person’s Guide to the Stefan Halper Conspiracy Theory emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Three Unexamined Assumptions in The Theory Of Male-Incels-As-Unserved-Customers-In-The-Sexual-Marketplace Echidne, at her blog
Trey and Devin’s private peep show digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The resistance is moral Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Subpoena Gamble: Fighting It Could Open Door to Indictment Ryan Goodman, Just Security
ecruiting Intelligence Sources: President Trump Makes a Hard Job Harder John Sipher, Lawfare
Murc’s Law: Clinton Rules Edition Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Border WTF Act Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Declaration of IndependentsUM … SHOULDN’T EVERY PHONE TRUMP USES SHOW A BLOCKED NUMBER? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Chicago Wins ‘Most Corrupt City’ Award Due In No Small Part To Its Awful Redlight Camera System Timothy Geigner, Techdirt