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
American and British forces invade Iraq; U.S. soldiers charged in Abu Ghraib scandal; France’s Napoleon regains power; ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’; Sarin attack hits Tokyo subway; John Lennon marries Yoko Ono.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Breakfast News
Germany rejects Trump claim it owes Nato and US ‘vast sums’ for defence
Clashes in Damascus after rebels tunnel into government-held areas
Socialist Benoît Hamon tries to rouse and unite French left at rally
Germany’s SPD elects Martin Schulz as leader to challenge Merkel
No charges in case of US inmate left in hot prison shower for two hours
Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion
Jimmy Breslin, chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, dies at age of 87
Breakfast Blogs
Chuck Berry and Jimmy Breslin Reinvented the English Language Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Sen. Deb Fischer (R) Questioned at Nebraskan Town Hall on Why She Voted YES to Allow Severe Mentally Ill to Get Guns digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
SCOTUS: No laughing matter Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Vetting of Sebastian Gorka Echidne, at her blog
Good Policy Does Not Guarantee Good Political Outcomes Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Triumphant Return of The Whitey Guy driftglass, at his blog