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
Bomb strikes a West Berlin disco; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and billionaire Howard Hughes die; Educator Booker T. Washington born; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sets an NBA record; Katie Couric to become CBS anchor.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Breakfast News
Syria: suspected chemical attack kills dozens in Idlib province
Iceland to enshrine equal pay for women and men in law
French presidential debate proves a marathon of egalité in action
NYPD officers accessed Black Lives Matter activists’ texts, documents show
Court: Civil Rights law prohibits discrimination of LGBT
Seattle tunnel machine reaches end of long, troubled journey
Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft to end 20-year Saturn mission by self-destructing
Breakfast Blogs
If You’re a Rogue Cop, Jeff Sessions Has Your Back Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why Susan Rice May Be a Shiny Object emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
How the Health Insurance Game Can Be Played: On Who Can Afford Insurance Echidne, at her blog
Backchanneling the backchannel for General Flynn digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear LA Times Editorial People tristero, Hullabaloo
Okay, I Think That’s Confirmed Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog
Why, Oh Why, Can’t Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer Make a Grand Bargain to Make it 1958 Again? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
ON INFRASTRUCTURE, TRUMP WANTS GOOD HEADLINES MORE THAN HE WANTS NEW JOBS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog