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 10:00am (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
Cold War prisoner exchange; boxer Mike Tyson convicted of rape; Arthur Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ opens on Broadway; Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are a Changin” released.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
Breakfast News
Trump travel ban hits major setback after judges uphold temporary restraining order
Arizona woman deported to Mexico despite complying with immigration officials
Georgia bill would allow ‘scarlet letter’ marking of non-citizen driver’s licenses
Blast at French nuclear plant does not pose contamination risk, say experts
Greece hopeful of imminent EU debt deal despite German warning
Hundreds of whales die in mass stranding on New Zealand beach
Winter migration of monarch butterflies to Mexico drops after one-year recovery
Breakfast Blogs
If the NCAA Comes Off Looking Better Than You, Something Is Horribly Wrong Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump’s Enemies And Friends Echidne, at her blog
Charles Cooper, Who Sanctioned Delayed Notification of Covert Ops to Congress, Reportedly to Be Solicitor General emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emmptywheel
You don’t have to spell it out Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What will Trump’s shiny new police state do about this? Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo
Local Weasel Plans To Duck Constituents driftglass, at his blog
BANNON: SHUT UP AND EAT YOUR GENERATIONAL UPHEAVAL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The Gorsuch gambit Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Talking About Buy American Campaigns Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Wyden, Other Senators Warn That Net Neutrality Repeal Will Make SOPA Backlash Look Like A Fireside Snuggle Karl Bode, Techdirt
President Trump’s White House Reaching New Lows In Accountability And Transparency Tim Cushing, Tecdirt