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 hydrogen-filled airship Hindenburg explodes and crashes; Psychologist Sigmund Freud and actor-director Orson Welles born; Roger Bannister is the first athlete to run a mile in fewer than four minutes.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Breakfast News
In long-feared twist, online leak rattles French campaign
Trump transition raised flags about Flynn Russia contacts
Iowa Supreme Court blocks portion of 20 week abortion ban
Texas police officer faces murder charge in teen’s death
Puerto Rico to close 179 public schools amid crisis
No clear favorite, rain make for unpredictable Derby
Breakfast Blogs
Flint Residents Are Behind on Their Poison Water Bills and May Lose Their Homes Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
CIA or NSA Warrantlessly Accessed the Content of More than 300 US Persons (Probably More than 1,300) Who Aren’t Terror Suspects emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Pre-Existing Moral Conditions. My Political Lament. Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Abundance of malice Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Now That The Damn Tour Is Over, Maybe We Can Create Some Actual Unity mrswhatsit9, hecatedemeter
George Will Is Now A ‘Vituperative Blogger Of The Left’**? driftglass, Crooks and Liars
The Evidence That the Comey Letter Threw the Election Is Overwhelming Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
WHY REPUBLICANS WILL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO GET A HORRIBLE HEALTH CARE BILL ENACTED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog