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
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer gets life in prison; House lawmakers pick a president; Garry Kasparov beats IBM’s Deep Blue at chess; NBA star Michael Jordan born; The Eagles release their greatest hits.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don’t know they’re racist. Hal Holbrook
Breakfast News
Hispanic caucus members ejected from meeting about immigration raids
Tillerson Forced to Stay at Sanitarium in German Village for G-20
US immigrants skip work, school in anti-Trump protest
Robert Harward turns down Trump’s offer to be national security adviser
Russia demands explanation of Gen. James Mattis’s comments
More Than 70 Reported Dead In Suicide Attack On Pakistani Shrine
Horse genitals seized from luggage of women arriving in US
Breakfast Blogs
Area Lawmaker Thinks Pregnancy Is a Sci-Fi Novel Subplot Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
One Hour and Seventeen Minutes driftglass, at his blog
Long Island Iced Tea Rayne, emptywheel
Trump’s Speech in Adjectives, 2/16/2017 Echidne, at her blog
Brutal digby aka Heather Digby Parton. Hullabaloo
Carter Page, at Center of Trump Russian Investigation, Writes Bizarre Letter to DOJ Blaming Hillary Clinton Jon Schwarz, The Intercept
d Morality Plays Cartoon Villains, Even if They Have to be Invented Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
About ‘The Press Conference’ Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog
Chris Christie Says Asset Forfeiture Transparency Is Bad For Law Enforcement, Vetoes Unanimously-Supported Bill Tim Cushing, Techdirt