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
George Washington, America’s first president, is born; Iraqi insurgents destroy a Shiite shrine’s golden dome; the ‘Miracle on Ice’ during the 1980 Winter Olympics; Pop artist Andy Warhol dies.
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. Harriet Tubman
Breakfast News
Students across US stage walkouts to protest gun violence
Court: Kansas can’t cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood
GOP leaders to seek halt to Pennsylvania congressional map
Supreme court narrows protections for whistleblowers
White nationalist is latest to sue over social media ban
Louisiana ordered to pay $154K over blocked marriage law
Crews used boats to help residents amid Midwest flooding
George Washington’s hair found tucked in old book in New York library
Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case
Hospitals overwhelmed by bombing blitz of Damascus suburbs
French government unveils tough measures for asylum-seekers
Bahrain sentences prominent activist to 5 years in prison
Boko Haram school attack: two girls killed and 76 rescued, official says
Thousands of Gazans rush to border as Egypt opens crossing
Pakistan court bans Nawaz Sharif from leading his party
Breakfast Blogs
Conspiracy Theories Have Made Us a Nation Within a Nation Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Jared’s Clearance and the Foreign Policy Version of Conspiracy to Defraud America emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Annie Scrap Your Gun Echidne, at her blog
The Trump-Russia conspiracy is a political problem digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Reading, writing and reloading Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Today In the Perfect American Meritocracy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Should Clarence Thomas be impeached? Paul Campos, Lawyers. Guns and Money
HOW CAN THE GOP SURVIVE IF ITS OFFICIALS ARE HELD TO THESE IMPOSSIBLY HIGH STANDARDS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump, Nunes Accidentally Undo DOJ’s Efforts To Keep Surveillance Docs Under Wraps Tim Cuashing, Techdirt