The Breakfast Club (Believe It)

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.

The San Francisco earthquake; What becomes known as ‘Paul Revere’s ride’; A suicide bomb hits the U.S. embassy in Lebanon; Physicist Albert Einstein dies; Wayne Gretzky plays his last NHL game.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.

Clarence Darrow

Opening of UN files on Holocaust will ‘rewrite chapters of history’

France’s would-be presidents rally in Paris days before vote

Turkey’s president Erdogan fulfils ambition, but at a cost

All-male Maryland legislative panel fails to end law forcing rape victims to share custody with their attackers

Arkansas court halts two executions; US court OKs others

Workers plug Alaska North Slope oil well that leaked gas

Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days

Illegal wildlife trade threatens species at Unesco sites, says WWF

In South Florida, green iguanas spread into suburban scourge

Bizarre bivalve: first living giant shipworm discovered in Philippines

What Will Happen in Georgia This Week? Chatles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Author of USA Freedom Act Says “Nobody’s Got to Use the Internet” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Wingnut Welfare Trough Is As Deep As It Is Wide driftglass, at his blog

No superheroes here digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Pro-Trump and Proud? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo