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
Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as president and vows to lead America out of the Great Depression; President Ronald Reagan takes responsibility for the Iran-Contra affair; The AAA is founded.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. Miriam Makeba
Breakfast News
US considers separating women and children who cross illegally into US
Jewish community center threats: man arrested in alleged cyberstalking plot
Rex Tillerson skips launch of US state department’s human rights report
Greyball: how Uber used secret software to dodge the law
Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam care home in Ireland
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan: ‘Germany is aiding and abetting terrorism’
Fillon faces growing pressure to step down as backers quit campaign
‘Worst view in the world’: Banksy opens hotel overlooking Bethlehem wall
Breakfast Blogs
Those 900 Hours of Free AOL Finally Came Back to Haunt Mike Pence Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Jeff Sessions’ Narrow Recusal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? Ed Walker, emptywheel
A Study on the Era of Alternative Facts Echidne, at her blog
Testing Trumps electoral strength digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Bested by the lizard brain Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
TrumpBeat: Follow The Money If You Want To Know What Trump Will Do Ben Casselman, Perry Bacon Jr., Maggie Koerth-Baker and Anna Maria Barry-Jester, FiveThirtyEight
Protest FOMO misswhatsit9, Hecate Demeter
Ron Fournier Remains a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
How the GOP Will Try to Play the Media On RyanCare Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
BOMB-THREAT SUSPECT WROTE FAKE NEWS FOR THE LEFTY PRESS? YES — AND THE LEFT MADE HIM A PARIAH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
State Supreme Court Says California Officials Can No Longer Hide Documents In Personal Email Accounts And Devices Tim Cushing, Techdirt