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
dgar Allan Poe and Robert E. Lee born; Indira Gandhi is elected prime minister of India; Bill Clinton admits making false statements under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Breakfast News
JP Morgan Chase to pay $55m to settle racial discrimination charges
Indiana bill would allow police to shut down protests ‘by any means necessary’
2016 hottest year ever recorded – and scientists say human activity to blame
Over half of world’s wild primate species face extinction, report reveals
Breakfast Blogs
6 Agencies Were Investigating Trump’s Russia Connections Before the Dossier Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
One-Fifth of Documents Edward Snowden Stole Were Blank emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
New info on Trump’s Russian money connection digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
No-way: Betsy DeVos faces a tough crowd Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Literally Any Conservative Crackpot Can Get a Column in “The Hill” driftglass, at his blog
Does Donald Trump Have Any Motivation To Prevent National Security Crisis? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Announcing the First James Comey Award For Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Chutzpah Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump’s Plan Is To Gut All FCC Consumer Protection Powers Karl Bode, Techdirt