The Breakfast Club (Watch The River Flow)

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

Ferdinand Marcos flees the Philippines; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin; Samuel Colt patents the revolver; Muhammad Ali becomes world boxing champ; Musician George Harrison born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.

George Harrison

Breakfast News

Homeland security intelligence finds little evidence to back Trump travel ban

Multiple news outlets denied access to White House press briefing

FCC chair to block stricter broadband data privacy rules

NAACP calls for boycott of North Carolina over voting, bathroom lawsNAACP calls for boycott of North Carolina over voting, bathroom laws

Mexico tells US it will refuse deportees from other countries

Salvadoran asylum seeker with brain tumor seized from Texas hospital

Breakfast Blogs

The Enemy of the People Speaks Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

A Modest Proposal: Ban the Interstate Travel of Kansans emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Comedy From The Trump Reich: Sebastian Gorka, CPAC and Alt-Right Echidne, at her blog

“America? I don’t go there anymore! America is no longer America!” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Can yellow dogs learn new tricks? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

What They’re Really After mrswhatsit, hecatedemeter

Breaking The Beltway Iron Rule of David Brooks driftglass, at his blog

There Is A New McCarthyism in the United States. It Has Nothing To Do With Vladimir Putin. (Except Insofar as Putin Helped to Put the McCarthyists in Office.) Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Eve of Deconstruction Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog

Judge Rejects Warrant Seeking To Force Everyone At A Searched Location To Unlock Seized Electronic Devices Tim Cushing, Techdirt