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.
This Day in History
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes; Sir Francis Drake dies off the coast of Panama; Vince Lombardi named head coach of the Green Bay Packers.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Breakfast News
Council on Islamic-American Relations to sue over Trump ‘extreme vetting’
Even torturers admit that torture doesn’t work
Woman at center of Emmett Till case tells author she fabricated testimony
Trump’s voter fraud expert owes US more than $100,000 in unpaid taxes
Mark Zuckerberg drops lawsuits to force hundreds of Hawaiians to sell him land
Strong dollar drags US growth to slowest pace since 2011
France’s wild hamsters being turned into ‘crazed cannibals’ by diet of corn
Breakfast Blogs
This West Virginia Casino Story Puts Ocean’s 11 to Shame Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Stephen Bannon’s Real Enemy: The Media Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Not Silent Bystanders Batocchio, Hullabaloo
A cavalcade of chaos Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Toddler Punching Hecate Demeter, at her blog
David Brooks: The Great Project Continues, Ctd. driftglass, at his blog
WAS STEVE BANNON’S LITTLE TEMPER TANTRUM AIMED AT THE MEDIA — OR AT WHITE HOUSE RIVALS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
There Will Never Be A Republican Replacement for the ACA, Cont’d Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Twitter Reveals Two National Security Letters After Gag Orders Lifted; Rightly Complains About Gag Orders Mike Masnick, Techdirt