The Breakfast Club (Jazz and Blues)

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.

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This Day in History

Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders receive conditional amnesty; Palestinian refugees massacred in Lebanon; Mexico pushes for independence; Opera star Maria Callas dies; Blues great B.B. King born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special – spiritually or however you can.

Charlie Byrd

Breakfast News

Deutsche Bank must pay $14bn fine to settle US mortgage case

British Embassy in Ankara to close on Friday for security reasons

US covering up opposition breaches of Syria ceasefire, Russia claims

Oregon standoff: Refuge manager explains Jan. 2 decision to keep employees home

Missouri legislators expand gun rights in defiance of concerns from police

Obama to establish first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean

Breakfast Blogs

People Have a Right to Vote. Period. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

If Snowden Doesn’t Know Privacy Protections of 702, That’s a Problem with NSA Training emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

For the record digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Paving, Then Polishing, the Road to Hell tristero, Hullabaloo

Daily Show Exposes Pro-Gun Activist To C**ks Not Glocks Protest Spocko, Hullabaloo

“The Murrican People” Is The New “Tea Party” driftglass, at his blog

I’m only worried about you, Donald Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog