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
President Bill Clinton denies affair; first European settlers in Australia ; General Douglas MacArthur is born; Wayne Gretzky born; musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ opens.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Breakfast News
Anti-hacking boss at Russian cybersecurity firm faces treason charge
Raúl Castro: Cuba won’t compromise sovereignty to normalize US relations
German police arrest far-right extremists suspected of planning attacks
Chile battles devastating wildfires: ‘We have never seen anything on this scale’
Flint Residents Leery of Data Showing Decreased Lead Levels in Water
Iowa oil spill underscores pipeline risks day after Trump revives major projects
Scientists planning their own march in Washington
Japan crowns homegrown sumo champion after 19-year wait
Breakfast Blogs
I Can Hear the Squawk of Jim Crow Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Politicians Did Not Get Rich From Hollowing Out the Economy Ed Walker, emptywheel
Tiny meatballs and pigs in a blanket digby aka Heather Digby parton, Hullabaloo
From sunup to crackdown to crackup Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Today In “The People of the Land”: Kentucky Moonshine driftglass, at his blog
These Clowns Will Release Actual Vote-Fraud Data When Trump Releases Obama’s Kenyan Birth certificate Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The First Shooting Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and money
Six Journalists Arrested, Charged While Covering Trump Inauguration Protests Timothy Geigner, Techdirt