The Breakfast Club (Inclusion)

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.

the Beatles arrive in America; Ramzi Yousef arrested for the 1993 blast at New York’s World Trade Center; Jordan’s King Hussein dies; author Charles Dickens and country singer Garth Brooks born.

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

Lady Gaga

Up to 13,000 secretly hanged in Syrian jail, says Amnesty

The target of the US military raid in Yemen is still alive, and he mocked Trump in an audio recording

UN: Spike in Afghan kids killed, maimed by unexploded munitions

Donald Trump Is Not Welcome To Address Parliament, U.K. Speaker Declares

The White House included some curious incidents on its list of under-reported terror attacks

North Carolina’s ‘bathroom law’ could cost it every NCAA championship for the next 5 years

Hackers Take Down Thousands of ‘Dark Web’ Sites, Post Private Data

Fireball meteor makes spectacular Midwest appearance

Let’s Start Sending Canned Ham to Our Congressional Leaders Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

7 From The Handmaid’s Tale: Take Two. Rapists’ Fatherhood Rights in Arkansas. Echidne, at her blog

John Yoo Wishes Trump Abused Executive Authority More Effectively emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Sunday Morning Party Line driftglass, at his blog

The big cover-up digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Are Factory Jobs Good Jobs? Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Ransomware Attack Left DC Police Surveillance Blind Shortly Before The Innauguration Karl Bode, Techdirt