The Breakfast Club (Tuesday)

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.

AP’s Today in History for October 30th

‘War of the Worlds’ spooks Americans on Halloween Eve; A deadly mudslide hits Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch; Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’; Comedian Steve Allen dies.

Breakfast Tune Deportees (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

Trump suggests he will end birthright citizenship with executive order
Oliver Laughland, The Guardian

Donald Trump has insisted he will move to end the right to American citizenship for the children of non-citizens born in the US, a pledge he made frequently throughout the 2016 campaign and one often dismissed as legally unfeasible by scholars.

Birthright citizenship, as it is referred to in the US, is enshrined by the 14th amendment to the US constitution. But Trump has suggested in a TV interview with the breaking news site Axios that he would move unilaterally to sign an executive order that ended the right. Any such order would probably be instantly challenged in the courts.

The comments came as the administration hardens its already extreme line on immigration ahead of the midterm elections next week. Trump dispatched more than 5,000 active-duty military troops to the southern border on Monday as a slow-moving migrant caravan of around 3,500 Central Americans , including mothers and children, trekked towards the US border at least 1,000 miles away.

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• Why a Neoliberal Society Can’t Survive
  T.J. COLES

• No Wonder We’re Screwed
  DAVID MACARAY

• It’s a Right-Wing Cover-Up: Trump Was a Big Inspiration for the Synagogue Slaughter in Pittsburgh
  Thom Hartmann

• Humanity ‘Sleepwalking Towards the Edge of a Cliff’: 60% of Earth’s Wildlife Wiped Out Since 1970
  Julia Conley

• The Struggle Over Communications Infrastructure in Puerto Rico
  Janine Jackson

Something to think about over coffee prozac

 
Mueller has recordings where Roger Stone bragged about plan to release stolen Democrat emails: WSJ report

Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone bragged about Wikileaks’ plans to release stolen emails from Democratic Party officials on conference calls during the run-up to the 2016 election, the Wall Street Journal reports.

At least twice during August 2016, the Trump adviser had conference calls where he told callers about WikiLeaks’ plans to release information that he said would affect the 2016 presidential campaign before the election, the paper reports.

The report is sourced to “people who listened to the sessions and recordings of one of the calls published online and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.”

It’s a matter that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators are looking into, “according to a witness in the probe and another person familiar with the matter.”

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