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
The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor, bringing America closer to war with Spain; The Soviet Union’s last troops leave Afghanistan; Astronomer Galileo and suffragist Susan B. Anthony born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Breakfast News
Federal vote-protection efforts lag ahead of first primaries
Deal reached on relocating evicted California homeless
US appeals panel kicks back checkpoint protest issue
Pennsylvania Governor Rejects GOP Proposal For New Congressional Map
Second Judge Blocks Trump Decision To End Deportation Relief For Dreamers
Hospital OKs agreement with Ohio city’s last abortion clinic
Democrats Take Florida District That Went Narrowly For Trump
A Westminster wow: Bichon frise becomes America’s top dog
‘LOVE’ returns: Philadelphia park gets its sculpture back
Second bald eagle hatches in Southern California mountains
Guatemalan ex-president, Oxfam chief held in corruption case
Israel police recommend corruption charges against Netanyahu
South Africa’s ruling party finally turns against Zuma
UK judge upholds arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder
Dutch foreign minister quits after lying about Putin meeting
Tongans face long wait for services to return after cyclone
Breakfast Blogs
The Only People in Government Who Care About Russian Election Meddling Are the Spies Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltics
2018 Senate Intelligence Global Threat Hearing Takeaways emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Is the gender gap growing among blue collar workers? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hulabaloo
On the Cape Town, South Africa water crisis Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo
Predators welcome Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Because what poor people really can’t afford is dignity Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Look at What They Do, Not What They Say Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks is Sean Hannity. Really. driftglass, at his blog
IF DEMOCRATS TALK ABOUT THE ECONOMY, WILL TRUMP’S POLL NUMBERS REALLY DECLINE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog