The Breakfast Club (The Other Side)

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

A golden spike completes America’s first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2’s frontman Bono born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Bono

Breakfast News

US to decide best site option for nuclear weapons production

Court says border agents need suspicion to search cellphones

Geologists: Explosive event possible at Hawaii volcano

Michigan official voted out after anti-Muslim posts

Governor’s trial hinges on photo that may or may not exist

Afghan detained despite helping US is freed after 14 months

50,000 Vegas casino workers to vote on strike over contract

Giant California teacher pension system targets gun sellers

Mexico, 2 US states could see Colorado River cutback in 2020

Walrus surprise residents in remote Alaska village

Sanctions on Iran could cost US, European companies billions

Breakfast Blogs

The United States Is a Country That Tortures People Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Ron Wyden Makes It Clear Gina Haspel Pushed for Torture to Continue in 2005 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Rolling with the Trumpies digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

GOP upset and relief Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

More Questions for Gina Haspel—The Record of False CIA Claims about Torture’s “Efficacy” Stephen Rickard, Just Security

Ohio Democrats Reject Crackpot Conspiracy Theorist Favored By Idiots and/or Republican Stooges Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Here’s a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model Paul Campos, NY Magazine

A Hugh Hewitt Prediction driftglass, at his blog

TRUMP EXPLICITLY DEFINES “FAKE” — AND “CORRUPT” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Not Ready For Prime Time: UK Law Enforcement Facial Recognition Software Producing Tons Of False Positives Tim Cushing, Techdirt