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.
This Day in History
Rodney King beaten in Los Angeles; Inventor Alexander Graham Bell born; ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ becomes the U.S. national anthem; ‘Time’ first hits newsstands; Steve Fossett’s non-stop global flight.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Breakfast News
Nor’easter grounds flights, halts trains along East Coast
US utilities find water pollution at coal ash dumps
On guns, companies are getting out ahead of the politicians
Storm spares California area previously struck by mudslides
West Virginia Senate nixes vote on striking teachers’ raises
Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana dispensaries running dry
Alaska’s famed Iditarod is set to begin amid turbulent year
China criticizes US trade report but silent on tariff hikes
Europe weather: UK army sent out; Dutch ice skate on canals
Deadly attacks by extremists strike Burkina Faso capital
Bitcoin heist: 600 powerful computers stolen in Iceland
A new Kraken arises? Russians eager to name doomsday arms
Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine decry Russian presence
Israeli police question Netanyahu over telecom case
Spanish government scorns latest Catalan independence moves
Polish official: Germany owes Poland $850 billion for WWII
Rome subway construction uncovers 2nd-century military home
Breakfast Blogs
Trump Is Coming Apart as the World Comes Apart Around Him Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Thug, Mob, Rogue: Trump Organization’s Own Description of Its Panama Hotel emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Three Things: This Matin, Think Latin Rayne, emptywheel
He’s taking matters completely into his own hands digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Citizens, not sheep Tom Sulivan, Hullabaloo
In Five Years the Kushner Family Will Be Completely Legitimate Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The West Virginia Strike Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
NRATV BEARS A STRIKING RESEMBLANCE TO RUSSIA’S 2016 SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog