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
US launches first satellite into orbit; Libyan intelligence officer convicted of Pan Am 103 bombing; US Soldier executed for desertion during World War II; Norman Mailer born; Franz Schubert born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Breakfast News
Judge rejects bid to suspend Louisiana pipeline construction
Nevada gambling board investigates Wynn sex allegations
Amazon, Buffett and JPMorgan join forces on health care
Arizona man says he sold ammunition to Las Vegas shooter
Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s great fear: Courts viewed as partisan
Separatists advance on presidential palace in southern Yemen
Putin calls Russia list ‘hostile’ as Dems decry no sanctions
Volkswagen suspends executive over monkey tests
Worst-hit reactor at Fukushima may be easiest to clean up
Russia’s Syria talks end with plan to draft new constitution
Catalan parliament postpones re-election of fugitive leader
Macedonia seizes large cannabis load amid trafficking spike
Breakfast Blogs
The State of the Journalism Industry, in Two Stories Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Byron York Confirms that Many Names and Sources Implicated Carter Page as an Agent of a Foreign Power emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Defense Department Rules Data on Failure in Afghanistan Is Not Releasable Jim White, emptywheel
When do the full Nuremberg rallies start? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Haggling over the price Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Libertarians Fail To See Clear Threat That Donald Trump Poses to the Neoliberal Order Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bad News on the US-Korea Front dnexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Democracy’s Fragility Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
WHEN DOES THE HEART PART START? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Minnesota Supreme Court Says Unlocking A Phone With A Fingerprint Isn’t A Fifth Amendment Issue Tim Cushing, Techdirt