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.
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.
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