The Breakfast Club (And So It Goes)

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) (or whenever we get around to it) 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

Lindbergh baby kidnapped; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed caught in Pakistan; Bobby Sands begins hunger strike; JFK creates Peace Corps; Ron Howard born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Harry Belafonte

Breakfast News

Russia and China veto UN resolution to impose sanctions on Syria

White House accused of blocking information on bank’s Trump-Russia links

Ex-CIA officer pardoned for role in 2003 kidnapping of terrorism suspect

Director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art resigns amid pressure

Tibetan women’s soccer players denied US visas for Texas tournament

Former Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut sells Olympic medals

Minnesota Vikings’ new glass-plated stadium becomes ‘death trap’ for birds

Breakfast Blogs

The Trump Administration Had One Hell of a Black History Month Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltics

If Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Do the Cloud Services AWS Provides the Intelligence Community Too? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

America First? The Gutting of Foreign Aid. Echdne, at her blog

It’s all fake I tell you, fake! digby aka Hullabaloo

He Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere tristero, Hullabaloo

Baby steps… Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo

There’s Really Only One Question the Press Should Be Asking Trump Voters Hecate Demeter, at her blog

David Brooks: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Pretend The Civil War Never Happened drftglass, at his blog

Jim Crow as School Choice! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

In a moment of enlightenment, Donald Trump’s IQ catches up to a 1992 Barbie doll The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog

New DOJ Boss Says He Hasn’t Read DOJ Investigations Into Abusive Policing, Calls Them ‘Anecdotal’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt

FCC Boss Moves To Kill Broadband Privacy Protections. You Know, To Help The Little Guy. karl Bode, Techdirt