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
Highlights of this day in history: Ed White is the first American to walk in space; Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Pope John XXIII die; Britain’s Duke of Windsor weds Wallis Simpson; Poet Allen Ginsberg and entertainer Josephine Baker born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Breakfast News
Special counsel’s Trump investigation includes Manafort case
Chicago, Trump administration have draft police reform deal
Supreme Court asked to let Trump travel ban take effect
In one state, abused animals get a legal voice in court
Venezuelan president moves forward on constitution assembly
Ex-Kosovo president banned from book promotion in Serbia
Ireland’s likely next PM would be first gay, minority leader
UN agency says Iran in compliance of landmark nuclear deal
Breakfast Blogs
No One Will Say If the President Believes Climate Change Is Real Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Putin Starts Talking about Hackers’ Art in Advance of Yevgeniy Nikulin Extradition emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Small Matter Of A Female President Echidne, at her blog
Burying the truth on torture digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Instant Trump decided to leave the Paris accords [UPDATED] Spocko, Hullabaloo
Trump’s “new deal” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Media Screwed Up Badly, Which is Why it’s Arguing That Media Criticism is Wrong in Principle
The Expedient Genre Fiction Of David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
THE TRUMP DOCTRINE: COMBAT FOR ITS OWN SAKE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Proposed DHS Rules May Cause The Deaths They Claim To PreventProposed DHS Rules May Cause The Deaths They Claim To Prevent Andrew “K’Tetch” Norton, Techdirt