The Breakfast Club (Gender Equality)

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

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. 146 people were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York. Aretha Franklin, Elton John born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.

Gloria Steinem

Breakfast News

Mosul’s children were shouting beneath the rubble. Nobody came

British MPs say Turkish president using attempted coup to suppress human rights

Inspectors find safety irregularities at Creusot nuclear forge in France

Putin tells Le Pen Russia has no plans to meddle in French election

Singapore teen blogger who criticised government wins asylum in US

Keystone XL: Trump issues permit to begin construction of pipeline

Louisiana officer convicted of manslaughter in 6-year-old boy’s death

Virginia court rules for Trump in travel ban dispute; order still halted

North Dakota governor approves concealed guns without a permit

‘Lining their own pockets’: Pharma firm gives $500,000 to fight legal weed – then gets the OK on synthetic pot

Breakfast Blogs

The Republican Party Cannot Govern Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

What I Really Worry About When It Comes to North Korea Roberrt Bateman, Esquire Politics

FBI Is Examining Possible Coordination with Russia, Not Collusion emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

A Picture Worth A Thousand Words. Or Who Needs Mammograms. Echidne, at her blog

What’s really going on with Nunes? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Who’s Really In A Bubble? mrswhatsit9, hecatedemeter

THE GOP’S PLAN B WOULD FAIL, TOO Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog