The Breakfast Club (Wipe Out)

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

Albert Einstein born; Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin; First US Astronaut in space on Russian rocket; Michael Caine and Quincy Jones born.

Breakfast Tunes

Nokie Edwards (May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018)

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Breakfast News

Storm blasts winter-weary Northeast; thousands lose power

Delaware’s last 2 death row inmates resentenced to life

Student walkouts planned across US to protest gun violence

Snake vlogger faces new set of scales over animal cruelty

Judge: Yellowstone grizzly lawsuits to proceed as hunt looms

Turkish forces surround Kurdish town in northern Syria

Egyptian authorities call on citizens to report on the media

Landslide in central Croatia destroys houses amid floods

Palestinian prime minister escapes injury in Gaza bombing

Japan’s Abe: NKorea must take real steps to denuclearization

Breakfast Blogs

What’s Going on with These Mysterious Deaths? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Welcome to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Pompeo — the Latest Committee to Have Reason to Investigate Russia! emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Meet You At The Wall Echidne, at her blog

What’s the matter with rural America? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Trump’s Innocence Established By Thorough, Impartial Investigation Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Mueller’s Choice of Criminal Charges: Why the Trump Team Should Be Very Worried Sam Berger, Just Security

WHY I DON’T THINK TILLERSON WAS FIRED FOR BLAMING THE BRITISH NERVE GAS POISONING ON THE RUSSIANS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog