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
Start of the Watts riots in Los Angeles; President Ronald Reagan’s joke causes a Cold War flap; The Mall of America opens; ‘Roots’ author Alex Haley born; Painter Jackson Pollock killed in auto accident.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Breakfast News
Putin raises stakes over alleged Ukrainian terror plot in Crimea
Vancouver police confirm use of ‘stingray’ surveillance technology
Hundreds evacuated from path of wildfire in southern France
US said to allow more weed research but won’t loosen its drug classification
Agriculture and overuse greater threats to wildlife than climate change – study
Dairy groups blast methane reductions: ‘Cows expel gas so they don’t explode’
Breakfast Blogs
Police blotter acid Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
He knows exactly what he’s doing digby, Hullabaloo
Donald Trump Is the GOP’s Disease in Its Terminal Stage
Crisis on Infinite Conservatisms: The Fall of the RetCon Men driftglass, at his blog
They’re Bringing Out The Big Guns Now Steve M., No More Mister Blog
DOJ Finally Going To Force Law Enforcement Agencies To Hand Over Info On People Killed By Police Officers Tim Cushing, Techdirt