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
Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders receive conditional amnesty; Palestinian refugees massacred in Lebanon; Mexico pushes for independence; Opera star Maria Callas dies; Blues great B.B. King born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special – spiritually or however you can.
Breakfast News
Deutsche Bank must pay $14bn fine to settle US mortgage case
British Embassy in Ankara to close on Friday for security reasons
US covering up opposition breaches of Syria ceasefire, Russia claims
Oregon standoff: Refuge manager explains Jan. 2 decision to keep employees home
Missouri legislators expand gun rights in defiance of concerns from police
Obama to establish first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean
Breakfast Blogs
People Have a Right to Vote. Period. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
If Snowden Doesn’t Know Privacy Protections of 702, That’s a Problem with NSA Training emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
For the record digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Paving, Then Polishing, the Road to Hell tristero, Hullabaloo
Daily Show Exposes Pro-Gun Activist To C**ks Not Glocks Protest Spocko, Hullabaloo
“The Murrican People” Is The New “Tea Party” driftglass, at his blog
I’m only worried about you, Donald Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog