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
Cuban exiles invade Bay of Pigs; Three astronauts of Apollo 13 land safely in pacific ocean; Benjamin Franklin dies at age 84; JP Morgan born in Connecticut; Ford rolls out the Mustang convertible.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.
Breakfast News
Turkey votes to expand president’s powers; critics cry fraud
Mass evacuation in Syria postponed after blast kills 80 kids
Egypt acquits American woman detained for 3 years
Border wall could leave some Americans on ‘Mexican side’
United changes policy, crew can’t displace seated passengers
Seafood joins fair trade revolution, a scallop at a time
22,000 years of history evaporates after freezer failure melts Arctic ice cores
Breakfast Blogs
Why You Should Take a Deep Breath Before Freaking Out About North Korea Robert Bateman, Esquire Politics
Weekend Reading 4/15/17: White House Easter Egg Roll, Trump as Horsefly And Other Topics Echidne, at her blog
Gross miscalculation digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabal00
The free lunch bunch Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Operation Memory Hole: The Single Most Hilarious Sentence You Will Read This Month driftglass, at his blog
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 79 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Shocked–Shocked!–to Find Trump Likes Bombing Shit Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog