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
Islam’s Prophet Mohammed dies; James Earl Ray caught, wanted for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born; The N.Y. Yankees retire Mickey Mantle’s number.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Breakfast News
North Korea launches salvo of missiles in fresh set of weapons tests
Macron launches French counter-terrorism taskforce
UK would have to declare state of emergency to change human rights laws
Rights group asks Germany to arrest CIA deputy director
Kansas abandons massive tax cuts that provided model for Trump’s plan
Illinois not complying with orders to fund Medicaid: US judge
Court upholds ruling that Houston bail system is unfair
North Carolina governor presses lawmakers to redraw maps now
Czech scientists see growing risk of asteroid hitting Earth
Moroccan fossils shake up understanding of human origins
Fossil mushroom discovered from the era of the dinosaurs
Breakfast Blogs
It Is Time for Donald Trump to Leave the White House Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Dan Coats Just Confirmed He Signed the Section 702 Certificate without Even Reading the Accompanying Memo emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel]
Political Polarization. Wear Your Seatbelts, For Turbulence Is Predicted. Echidne, at her blog
He told us what he planned. But it was so cynical nobody believed it. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Living in Griftopia Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Some Presidents Are Only About That Thing, That Thing, That Thing Scott Lemieux, Lawyer, Guns and Money
In Search of The Real Americans… driftglass, at his blog
NO IMPEACHMENT BY REPUBLICANS EVER? SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT TO ME. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Snowden Explains How The Espionage Act Unfairly Stacks The Deck Against Reality Winner Mike Masnick, Techdirt