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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
Bruno Richard Hauptmann convicted in the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder; The World War II bombing of Dresden begins; Konstantin Chernenko becomes Soviet leader; Peter Gabriel born; Waylon Jennings dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Happy 95th, Chuck.
If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.
Breakfast News
Opioid makers gave $10M to advocacy groups amid epidemic
California lawmakers boost dam checks after near disaster
Milwaukee prosecutors charge jail staff in inmate’s death
2 Baltimore detectives convicted of racketeering, robbery
Court declines to tear up NJ’s $225M settlement with Exxon
Appeals Court: Arctic ringed seals are threatened species
Ukraine deports opposition leader Saakashvili to Poland
China charges former rising political star with bribery
Ridicule of leaders, samba, skimpy garb at Brazil Carnival
Court to rule on ex-South Korean leader’s jailed confidante
Cyprus says Turkish warships continue to block drilling rig
Damage assessment from storm starts in American Samoa
ANC committee deliberates on South African leader’s fate
Heir donates estate of Hitler’s filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl
Breakfast Blogs
I Won’t Let These Idiots Ruin the Olympics for Me Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Graham and Grassley Are Seeing Christopher Steele’s Ghost Where Mike Flynn Lurks emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts, Monday, 2/12/18: Economic Inequality in the US, Whataboutism, Flawed Voting Systems echidne, at her blog
Helping DREAMers should be an easy bipartisan win. Why isn’t it? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The great reckoning Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Today In Donald Trump’s Populist War On the Neoliberal Order Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Law Enforcement as White Inheritance Simon Balto, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mind Like a Steele Trap driftgass, at his blog
ROB PORTER SAID THIS AND NO ONE BURST OUT LAUGHING? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The Standalone Streaming Service HBO Didn’t Want To Offer Now Has 5 Million Users Karl Bode, Techdirt