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
President Andrew Johnson impeached; The Nazi Party holds its first major meeting; Manila liberated during World War II; Britain’s Prince Charles, Lady Diana Spencer engaged; Lauryn Hill’s Grammy feat.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Breakfast News
Judges decline to immediately throw out congressional map
Judge agrees to halt construction of Louisiana oil pipeline
After school shooting, Florida leaders propose new gun laws
More companies end ties with NRA as pressure mounts
Missouri governor indicted under law targeting peeping toms
Midwest flooding expected to last through weekend
UN to vote Saturday on humanitarian cease-fire in Syria
Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya Muslim villages
EU warns Turkey after its warships force gas rig to halt
France unveils broad new plan to tackle radicalization
Putin is heir to Russia’s long disinformation experience
French customs officials find stolen Degas in luggage on bus
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s CPAC Speech Was a Reminder of What We’ve Done to Ourselves Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Konstantin Kilimnik’s PRISM-Accessible Communications emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Dana’s got yet another secret digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Sheer Stupidity tristero, Hullabaloo
Learning to fight Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Republicans Terrified By Rules Tilted Only Slightly In Their Favor Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
HEY KEVIN WILLIAMSON, WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF RIGHT-WING DISHONESTY… Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
US Border Officials Have Never Verified Chipped Passports, Despite Demanding Their Usage Mike Masnick, Techdirt