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.
This Day in History
Mongol ruler Genghis Khan dies; Women in U.S. clinch right to vote; James Meredith graduates from Univ. of Miss.; Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ published in U.S.; Actor-director Robert Redford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Happy 89th Birthday, Mrs Carter, and many more.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Breakfast News
Brazil police arrest two US swimmers in Ryan Lochte ‘robbery’ case at airport
Refugees did not bring terrorism to Germany, says Angela Merkel
Bolivia opens ‘anti-imperialist’ military school to counter US foreign policies
Women in jails are the fastest growing incarcerated population, study says
Second-oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes discovered in New York
Breakfast Blogs
DC Cooties emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Does Michael Flynn have a top security clearance? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Old times there are not forgotten Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Yesterday They Were Just Two German Clerks driftglass, at his blog
Why Won’t The Lie-Beral Media Acknowledge This Embarrassing Milestone For Republicans? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
This Should Solve All Of Your Problems Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump’s Purity Test for Immigrants Is More Evidence of His White Nationalist Plans Melissa McEwan, Blue Nation Review