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.
This Day in History
Britain enacts the Stamp Act on its American colonies; The ‘Garbage Barge’; Skater Tara Lipinski reaches the record books; The Beatles release ‘Please Please Me’; Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes its time.
Breakfast News
Bank that lent $300m to Trump linked to Russian money laundering scam
North Korea ‘accelerates’ nuclear plan and is ‘not afraid’ of more US sanctions
Homelessness and housing problems reach crisis point in all EU countries – except Finland
Supreme Court reins in president’s appointment powers
Coal in ‘freefall’ as new power plants dive by two-thirds
Former Colorado GOP chairman charged with voter fraud, forgery
Trump Sics Lawyers on Teen for Making Silly Site Where Kittens Punch Him
World Water Day: one in four children will live with water scarcity by 2040
‘Better de-horned than dead’ – zoo chops rhino horns to foil poachers
A giant cliff collapse on a comet reveals pristine ice beneath the surface Popular Science
Beauty and the Beast: Malaysian film censors back down in ‘gay moment’ row
Breakfast Blogs
Neil Gorsuch Knows What Dark Money Is, and What That Money Expects of Him Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
When a White Republican Gets Spied On, Privacy Suddenly Matters emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Comey, Redux Echidne, at her blog
Some random corruption stuff digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The real reason Trump didn’t want to shake hands with Merkel… Gaius Publius, hullabaloo
Moscow on the Potomac Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
If Trump Is Innocent, Why Is He Acting So Guilty? Brian Beutler, New Republic
Famous Beltway Fairy Tale Curator Would Like Better Fairy Tales Please driftglass, at his blog
The Kinderhook Kickback Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
NICE TENANTS YOU GOT THERE, DONALD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Man Actually Arrested For Assault With A Deadly Tweet Mike Masnick, Techdirt