The Breakfast Club (The Same Boat)

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.

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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.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

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

The next big discovery in astronomy? Scientists probably found it years ago – but they don’t know it yet

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