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
Pope John Paul II shot; English colonists arrive at what becomes Jamestown; Winston Churchill gives his first speech as British prime minister; The U.S. declares war on Mexico; Singer Stevie Wonder born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you don’t give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don’t hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
Breakfast News
Dozens of countries hit by huge cyberextortion attack
Venezuelans battle with shields, gas masks, fecal bombs
Candidates trade blows as Iran’s presidential election nears
Kurdish-led forces say they will advance on IS capital
Attorney general sparks fear with push for harsh sentences
Idaho asks appeals court to uphold ban on spying at farms
Woman who lived in church allowed to stay in US for 2 years
As Trump seeks billions for wall, US still paying for fence
Collapsed interstate bridge in Georgia reopens to traffic
Breakfast Blogs
The Kazakhstan Connection: Trump, Bayrock and Plenty of Questions Richard Behar, DC Reports
It Had to Come Down to Tapes Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Last USA: Dana Boente Is the Best Short Term Solution emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
A Letter For Rod Rosenstein To Remember bmaz, emptywheel
My Friday Short Posts, 5/12/17: A Health Care Lament, the Process of Hillarization and Trump’s Interview Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Rising U.S. deaths in childbirth Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
It’s Working mrswhatsit9, Hecate Demeter
Any Republican President Would Be Terrible. Trump Is Even Worse. Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Resistance – The free market is a harsh mistress edition Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today In Wholesale Thievery: Charlie Sykes driftglass, at his blog
HEY, REPUBLICANS: CLEEK’S LAW MEANS YOU’RE STUCK WITH TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
FCC Temporarily Stops Taking Net Neutrality Comments So FCC Can ‘Reflect’ Mike Masnick, Techdirt