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
The FDA approves the first birth control pill; FCC chief Newton Minow condemns TV programming; Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole; Journalist Mike Wallace and singer Billy Joel born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
Breakfast News
Travel ban arguments focus on Trump’s comments about Muslims
California may end ban on communists in government jobs
Carter warns against US relaxing emphasis on human rights
Judge rejects immediate block of monument removal
Trump in-laws promote thorny visa-for-sale program in China
Syria rejects international forces in safe zones
UN climate talks begin amid uncertainty over US position
170-year-old rare flowers accidentally destroyed
Breakfast Blogs
Sally Yates Dismantled Ted Cruz, and Michael Flynn Seems Like a Hooked Fish Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltics
Verizon Gets Out of the Upstream Surveillance Business emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The New Republican Health Plan and Pre-Existing Medical Conditions Echidne, at her blog
How do you tell a “good hombre” from a “bad hombre”? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
It’s Like Ron Fournier, From the Ostensible Left Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who Mourns for a Dumbass?* driftglass, at his blog
IN VICTORY, TRUMP WAS A CONQUEROR TO THE NEW YORK TIMES, BUT MACRON JUST GOT LUCKY Steve M. No More Mister Nice Blog
DHS Boss Drums Up Fear Using The FBI’s Useless Terrorism Investigation Stats Tim Cushing, Techdirt