The Breakfast Club (Happiness)

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) 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

‘Saturday Night Massacre’ takes place during Watergate scandal; Gen. Douglas MacArthur returns to Philippines; Jacqueline Kennedy weds Aristotle Onassis; Three Lynyrd Skynyrd members die in plane crash.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you’ll be a happy person.

Tom Petty

Breakfast News

Protesters to white nationalist speaker at University of Florida: ‘Go home Nazis’

California Dept of Insurance estimates wildfires losses at $1.05 billion

Supreme court allows planned Alabama execution to proceed

U.S. agency scraps unused telegraph regulations in Trump rules purge

Ending Iran nuclear deal would worsen North Korea situation: Kerry

NZ Prime Minister-elect Ardern focuses on final touches in coalition deal

Kurdish officials say thousands flee Kirkuk since Iraqi army takeover

EU leaders want to ‘responsibly’ cut Turkey pre-accession aid: Merkel

Lulu the CIA’s Bomb-Sniffing Dog Fails Out of School; Just Wasn’t That Into It

Breakfast Blogs

Do I Applaud This Speech from George W. Bush? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

In Defense of Trump’s Steele Dossier Tweet emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

#MeToo: A Few Statistical Points Echidne, at her blog

Is vote suppression a problem in close elections? Why do you ask? digbu aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Entrepreneurs entrepreneurin’ Tom Sullivan, Hulllabaloo

Trump, Executive Power and the Constitution Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 158 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

You Can Be A Good American, Or You Can Be A Good Republican driftglass, at his blog

THE FIGHT AGAINST TRUMPISM: SHOTS ACROSS THE BOW AREN’T GOING TO GET THE JOB DONE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Author Who Lost Copyright Case Over The Da Vinci Code In The US In 2007 Looks To Revive It In The UK In 2017 im Geigner, Techdirt