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
Deadly shootings at Kent State during the Vietnam War; Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s prime minister; Chicago’s Haymarket Riot; ‘Freedom Riders’ head South; Birth of the outfit behind the Oscars.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.
Breakfast News
Striking Arizona teachers end walkout, salary increases set
Missouri to hold session to consider impeaching governor
Casino workers want sex harassment policy to include guests
State defends law on abortion doctors’ hospital privileges
Oklahoma governor faces decision on gun carry without permit
US indictment alleges top VW exec knew of emissions cheating
Venezuela takes charge of big bank, arrests 11 executives
Iran’s foreign minister says no renegotiating nuclear deal
ETA formally ends armed fight, but Spain vows to prosecute
Historians name 2 Indian Ocean 19th century shipwrecks
Rainstorm kills at least 91, injures over 160 in India
Breakfast Blogs
Americans Are Capable of Terrible Things Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Quo: Policy and Real Estate Payoffs to Russia (Part Three) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Sounded better in the original Italian digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear Deplorables tristero, Hullabaloo
No conspiracy. No conspiracy. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Presidential Norms and the Special Counsel Investigation: Disclosures to Congress David Kris, Lawfare
Nixon’s Long Shadow: Donald Trump’s Emerging Constitutional Defense Against Investigation–and Indictment Bob Bauer, Just Security
Denying the Political Potency of White Supremacy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Worst Living American Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Night of the long knaves, EPA vs. Interior edition. Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How The West Wing Screwed Us Up driftglass, at his blog
IF THE LAW AND THE FACTS ARE AGAINST YOU…. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
UN Celebrates World Press Freedom Day By Suppressing Presentation Of Turkey Suppressing Press Mike Masnick, Techdirt
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