The Breakfast Club (Malaika)

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president and vows to lead America out of the Great Depression; President Ronald Reagan takes responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair; The AAA is founded.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. Miriam Makeba

Breakfast News

US considers separating women and children who cross illegally into US

Jewish community center threats: man arrested in alleged cyberstalking plot

Rex Tillerson skips launch of US state department’s human rights report

Greyball: how Uber used secret software to dodge the law

Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam care home in Ireland

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘Germany is aiding and abetting terrorism’

Fillon faces growing pressure to step down as backers quit campaign

‘Worst view in the world’: Banksy opens hotel overlooking Bethlehem wall

Breakfast Blogs

Those 900 Hours of Free AOL Finally Came Back to Haunt Mike Pence Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Jeff Sessions’ Narrow Recusal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Ed Walker, emptywheel

A Study on the Era of Alternative Facts Echidne, at her blog

Testing Trumps electoral strength digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Bested by the lizard brain Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

TrumpBeat: Follow The Money If You Want To Know What Trump Will Do Ben Casselman, Perry Bacon Jr., Maggie Koerth-Baker and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, FiveThirtyEight

Protest FOMO misswhatsit9, Hecate Demeter

Ron Fournier Remains a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog

How the GOP Will Try to Play the Media On RyanCare Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

BOMB-THREAT SUSPECT WROTE FAKE NEWS FOR THE LEFTY PRESS? YES — AND THE LEFT MADE HIM A PARIAH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

State Supreme Court Says California Officials Can No Longer Hide Documents In Personal Email Accounts And Devices Tim Cushing, Techdirt