The Breakfast Club (Choose Well)

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.

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This Day in History

Funeral of Pope John Paul II; Pablo Picasso dies at 91; Teen aids patient Ryan White dies at 18; Hank Aaron hits 715th home run; Kurt Cobain found dead in home from self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Kofi Annan

Breakfast News

Google accused of ‘extreme’ gender pay discrimination by US labor department

Baltimore police overhaul is approved over Trump objections

Alabama governor halts impeachment, not disparaging report

US government drops effort to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account

As California drought declared officially over, state looks to the future

Basque group ETA to hand over arms in delicate road to peace

Italy court bans Uber over unfair competition for taxis

UN mission says it can’t ferry Haiti humanitarian supplies

Polish law change unleashes ‘massacre’ of trees

Breakfast Blogs

Washington Is Void of Any Sense of Restraint Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Last Fall’s Efforts against Russia: Influence versus Tamper emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Could We Stop With the Public Monday Morning Quarterbacking Already? mrswhatsit9, hecatedemeter

Trump’s words mean nothing digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

He did something. Now what? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Trump Child Labor Agenda Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY HIRES EX-BREITBARTER JUST AS HE TURNS AGAINST THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Oh, Sure, Now Congress Is Serious About Asking NSA About Surveillance On Americans Mike Masnick, Techdirt