The Breakfast Club (Cinco de Mayo)

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.

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This Day in History

The hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
Maximilien Robespierre
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/maximilien_robespierre.html

Breakfast News

State of emergency in Alberta as wildfire forces Fort McMurray evacuation

Spain issues arrest warrants for Russian officials close to Putin

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/04/gmail-yahoo-email-password-hack-hold-security

Big Banks Just Claimed A Constitutional Right To A Taxpayer Subsidy

Feds Tell North Carolina Governor That Anti-LGBT Law Violates Civil Rights Act

Breakfast Blogs

The Reckoning Has Come, and It Is Dark and Painful for Many Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The IC Can’t Even Decide What Is Classified in Hillary’s Emails But They’re Attempting To Do Same on the Internet emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Today In Both Sides Do It: Every Damn Body driftglass at his blog

Donald Who? In The States, It’s The Same Old Republican Party Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

DOJ Deploys Highly-Questionable Legal Arguments In Attempt To Save FBI’s Hacking Warrants Tim Cushing, Techdirt