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
Hitler takes Austria; FDR’s first fireside chat; Gacy convicted; Girl Scouts predecessor founded; Les Miserables opens.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Breakfast News
Gun background check system riddled with flaws
Student walkout over guns poses balancing act for schools
Thousands march to protest Canada pipeline expansion project
Crosses hung from Kentucky billboard advertising gun show
Fishermen of baby eels expect high price as stocks dry up
Maple syrup season gets early start in parts of New England
Xi Jinping’s rule shatters hopes for China’s liberalization
Critics of peace deal dominate Colombia election
Hong Kong pro-democracy movement loses ground in by-election
Cuba’s likely next president pledges more responsive gov’t
Breakfast Blogs
I’ll Believe It When I See It Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why Has Putin Changed His Mind about Whether Russians Who Hacked the US Are Patriots Or Others? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
So Trump said he’d lift sanctions all the way back in 2015? digby aka Heather Digby Psrton,, Hullabaloo
With every instrumentality at their disposal Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Hans Against America Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Welcome to the United States Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: The Triumphant Return of “Team B” driftglass, at his blog
WE COULD HAVE HAD TWO TRUMP/CLINTON ELECTIONS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog