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
Operation Desert Storm begins with bombing of Baghdad; Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on final flight; Prohibition takes effect; Shah flees Iran.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Breakfast News
China threatens to ‘take off the gloves’ if Trump rips up status quo on Taiwan
Bill to cement Erdoğan’s power passes first vote in Turkey
World’s eight richest people have same wealth as poorest 50%
French progressives dare to hope as maverick Macron surges in polls
The big stop: Ringling Bros circus closes after 146 years
Casting off Trump: the women who can’t stop knitting ‘pussy hats’
Women’s March on Washington: what to know and what to bring
Eiffel Tower to be given €300m facelift under 15-year renovation plan
Breakfast Blogs
On “Fake News” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
We don’t need no stinkin’ allies digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
As You Prepare To Storm Your Congressperson’s Town Hall Meetings… driftglass, at his blog
Self Inflicted Wounds: Blind, Deaf, and Maybe Dumb Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
The Rules For Democrats Begin To Take Shape, And They’re As Bad As You’d Expect Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Where the Fuck Are You, Democrats? , The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 66 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money