The Breakfast Club (Participate)

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

Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler born; Gunfire erupts at Columbine High; Cubans in the Mariel boatlift arrive in the U.S.; Ted Williams makes his baseball debut; Singer Luther Vandross born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Happy 80th Birthday, George

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we’re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

George Takei

Breakfast News

Arkansas suffers 2 setbacks to multiple execution plan

Inside a Colorado pot club – a rare and endangered species

Judge blocks Missouri’s abortion-restricting rules

Illinois road project stung by judge’s endangered-bee ruling

1 of 3 new polar bear cubs makes public debut at Ohio zoo

2 killed amid massive anti-government marches in Venezuela

French presidential hopefuls wrap up campaigns in tight race

Back to the ballot box: UK lawmakers approve June 8 election

Emirates cuts US flights, blaming Trump administration curbs

Haiti to rebuild National Palace smashed in 2010 earthquake

Breakfast Blogs

Stop Lying to Yourself About Donald Trump Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Doxing of Equation Group Hackers Raises Questions about the Legal Role of Nation-State Hackers emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The couch surfing provacateur digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Handel’s Messiah driftglass, No More Mister Nice Blog

Death without parole Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

PALIN, BREITBART, AND FOX SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING WITH THE CONCEPT OF LINEAR TIME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Court: No Immunity For Federal Agent Who Made Elderly Woman Stand In Urine-Soaked Pants For Two Hours While He Questioned Her Tim Cushing, Techdirt