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
An aborted mission to free American hostages in Iran ends in disaster; Ireland’s ‘Easter Rising’ begins; Armenians face mass deportation during World War I; Singer Barbra Streisand born.
Breakfast Tunes
Happy 75th Birthday, Barbra
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.
Breakfast News
AP Top News Centrist Macron vs. far-right Le Pen in fight to lead France
German nationalists elect top duo for general election
Abortion in Ireland: committee votes for constitutional change
Scams push foreclosure fraud to limit, taking victims’ homes
Public window on financial complaints could be closing soon
California moves – slowly – toward resuming executions
Breakfast Blogs
Supporting Science is as American as the Constitution and the Founding Fathers Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Thoughts on the NYT Comey Blockbuster emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Signs From The Science Marches Echidne, at her blog
“You’ve got to read, you have to be thoughtful, and you have to be engaged” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
March of the persons Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Venn Diagram Intersectionality Of Fawlty Towers driftglass, at his blog
Don’t Look At Us, We Didn’t Do It! Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
LIZ SPAYD IS THE WORST Steve M., No More mister Nice Blog