The Breakfast Club (It Takes Time)

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

Britain enacts the Stamp Act on its American colonies; The ‘Garbage Barge’; Skater Tara Lipinski reaches the record books; The Beatles release ‘Please Please Me’; Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes its time.

Bassem Youssef

Breakfast News

Bank that lent $300m to Trump linked to Russian money laundering scam

North Korea ‘accelerates’ nuclear plan and is ‘not afraid’ of more US sanctions

Homelessness and housing problems reach crisis point in all EU countries – except Finland

Supreme Court reins in president’s appointment powers

Coal in ‘freefall’ as new power plants dive by two-thirds

Former Colorado GOP chairman charged with voter fraud, forgery

Trump Sics Lawyers on Teen for Making Silly Site Where Kittens Punch Him

World Water Day: one in four children will live with water scarcity by 2040

‘Better de-horned than dead’ – zoo chops rhino horns to foil poachers

A giant cliff collapse on a comet reveals pristine ice beneath the surface Popular Science

Beauty and the Beast: Malaysian film censors back down in ‘gay moment’ row

Breakfast Blogs

Neil Gorsuch Knows What Dark Money Is, and What That Money Expects of Him Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

When a White Republican Gets Spied On, Privacy Suddenly Matters emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Comey, Redux Echidne, at her blog

Some random corruption stuff digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The real reason Trump didn’t want to shake hands with Merkel… Gaius Publius, hullabaloo

Moscow on the Potomac Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

If Trump Is Innocent, Why Is He Acting So Guilty? Brian Beutler, New Republic

Famous Beltway Fairy Tale Curator Would Like Better Fairy Tales Please driftglass, at his blog

The Kinderhook Kickback Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

NICE TENANTS YOU GOT THERE, DONALD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Man Actually Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Tweet Mike Masnick, Techdirt