The Breakfast Club (A Long, Long Time Ago)

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.

 photo stress free zone_zps7hlsflkj.jpg

This Day in History

“Star Wars” premieres; Former Enron execs Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling are convicted of conspiracy and fraud; Comedian Jay Leno begins his run as host of N-B-C’s “The Tonight Show .

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Breakfast News

Greece begins clearing thousands of refugees from border tent city in Idomeni

Brazil’s Temer seeks constitutional change to curb public spending

Iraq forces keep up shelling of Falluja, U.N. concern mounts for civilians

Ken Starr reportedly fired as Baylor president, university declines comment

Federal authorities to seek death penalty against Dylann Roof

Greece gets new funds approved by eurozone creditors

Investigators raid Google Paris HQ in tax evasion inquiry

Supreme Court down to three major cases this term

US appeals court revisits Texas voter ID law

Ferguson city attorney steps down after criticism

Lawmakers Occupy Hot Car in Push to Allow Pet-Saving Bystanders to Smash Windows

Vet Student Saves Sick Dog From Being Euthanized by Finding Tick

Breakfast Blogs

What Happens When Water for 30 Million People Disappears? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Sad Bastard Divorce Chronicles of David Brooks driftglass at his blog

In Austria, The Vote Demographics Look Awfully Familiar Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Obama Overtime Plan Won’t Hurt Businesses, Executives Admit Zaid Jilani, The Intercept

W. Virginians Can Now Carry Concealed Guns With No Permit Or Training Spocko, Hullabaloo

The Trumpian Song of Sexual Violence Josh Marshall, Editors’ Blog @ Talking Points Memo

Another Court Finds FBI’s NIT Warrants To Be Invalid, But Credits Agents’ ‘Good Faith’ To Deny Suppression Tim Cushing, Techdirt