The Breakfast Club (Surviving)

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.

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This Day in History

The ‘day the music died’ during early rock ‘n roll; the Luna 9 probe lands on the Moon; the first woman to pilot a Space Shuttle; painter Norman Rockwell and composer Felix Mendelssohn born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein

Breakfast News

Russia hails US Treasury’s tweak to sanctions as new dawn in cooperation

Nato must do more to counter Russia’s cyber-weaponry, says Fallon

European parliament leaders call on EU to reject Trump’s likely ambassador pick

Plan to move Rohingya to remote island prompts fears of human catastrophe

House votes to scrap gun regulation affecting people with mental disorders

Doctors Make the Case for Obamacare or Something Like It

Reddit bans far-right groups altright and alternativeright

How We’re Teaching Endangered Coral Reefs to Help Themselves

Breakfast Blogs

We Know How This Ends Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Is President Trump Prepared to Respond to the Ukraine Situation? Robert Bateman, Esquire Politics

Donald Trump, Making Canada Great Again! emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Sexists in Russia: Meet Satoshi Kanazawa. Or Why Being Battered Is Supposed to Be An Advantage For Women. Echidne, at her blog

2018: A GREAT YEAR FOR THE DEMOCRATS, OR MAYBE A TERRIBLE ONE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Leaking like the Titanic digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The cruelty is the same Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Is Having a President With the Knowledge and Temperament of a Dim, Petulant Second Grader a Problem? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Why Did The FBI Say It Couldn’t Release Documents To ‘FOIA Terrorist’ Jason Leopold That It Released To Me Months Earlier? Mike Masnick, Techdirt