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
Malcolm X assassinated; President Richard Nixon visits China; Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart makes a tearful confession; Steve Fossett is the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
Breakfast News
Florida survivors, lawmakers on collision course over guns
After teenager’s arrest, liberal Vermont ponders gun safety
Judge approves shutdown of large California homeless camp
Texas parole board recommends killer be spared from death
Groups want details on Trump’s approval of Keystone pipeline
Florida close to replacing Confederate statue in US Capitol
Storm system brings flooding, freezing rain, snow to Midwest
Insiders: Russia troll farm even zanier than indictment says
Government bombing of Damascus suburbs kills more than 100
Italy warns of election threat as rival parties court Russia
17 Turks reach Greek island, to apply for asylum in Greece
Oxfam apologizes over handling of Haiti abuse scandal
Stylish Queen Elizabeth II makes first Fashion Week visit
Breakfast Blogs
Our Future Robot Overlords Simply Won’t Understand This Health Care Fight Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Open Thread: All in the Families? Rayne, emptywheel
The Spartacus tactic digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear Florida Gun Fighters. Prepare For The NRA Hammer! Spocko, Hullabaloo
Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Left Needs to Be Smarter, Part Who Even Knows Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Moral Idiocy Incarnate driftglass, at his blog
YOU KNOW WHAT LOOKS ORGANIZED AND COORDINATED? THE RIGHT-WING SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE PARKLAND KIDS. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog