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
President Ronald Reagan is wounded in an assassination attempt; The U.S. reaches a deal with Russia to buy Alaska Territory; Actor James Cagney dies; Musician Eric Clapton born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Breakfast News
Scottish independence: Sturgeon to press on with referendum
Theresa May gives no cut-off date for freedom of movement
Syrian experts visit critical dam spillway near main IS base
Chinese demand for elephant ivory drops, new report says
Iranian woman visiting family on tourist visa detained in Oregon jail
US heroin use has increased almost fivefold in a decade, study shows
‘Climate change is real’: companies challenge Trump’s reversal of policy
Mexican man freed after arrest despite protected status
Seattle announces lawsuit over Trump sanctuary cities threat
US judge questions government on narrowing travel ban block
Breakfast Blogs
Wait, We Might Actually Get Some Answers on Russia? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Flynn and Kushner Interviews with SSCI emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Follow da money digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Setting a national precedent, Maryland passes fracking ban; GOP governor to sign it Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo
The fetish of choice Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Matthew Dowd Continues To Be a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
Some fruit growing tRumpists aren’t liking them apples Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money