The Breakfast Club (Dissent)

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.

 photo stress free zone_zps7hlsflkj.jpg

This Day in History

My Lai Massacre in Vietnam; Terry Anderson abducted; First successful liquid-fuel rocket launch; Jerry Lewis born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Dissents speak to a future age.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Breakfast News

Collapse of bridge built with innovative system kills 4

ACLU sues government over detention of asylum seekers

Lawyer in US illegally gets California statewide appointment

Students walk out over university’s parental visa checks

Appeals court lifts halt to Louisiana pipeline construction

FDA begins push to cut addictive nicotine in cigarettes

Thousands flee violence in mass exodus from Syrian towns

Slovak PM and his govt resign over slain journalist crisis

UN gets $100M in new funds for Palestinian aid after US cuts

Stone tools from Kenya give early glimpse of human behavior

Breakfast Blogs

This Is His Beautiful House. But How Did He Get Here? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Some Cover-Ups Are More Equal Than Other Cover-Ups emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Gender-Integration At Work Decreases Gender Stereotypes Echidne, at her blog

He’s proud to be a dumb liar digby ala Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Poor, poor Paul Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

“By ‘swamp’ we meant ‘your money,’ and by ‘drain’ we meant ‘take it for ourselves,’ so we were telling the truth” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Captain of Everything Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

I Am David Roberts driftglass, at his blog

TRUMP WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WHY WE DON’T THINK THAT TRUDEAU ANECDOTE IS A GREAT STORY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

How Trump’s Lawyer’s Silly Lawsuit Against Buzzfeed May Free Stormy Daniels From Her Non Disclosure Agreement Mike Masnick, Techdirt