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 Lyndon Johnson announces that he isn’t running for re-election; Flag first unfurled on top of Eiffel Tower; Terry Schiavo dies; Oklahoma debuts on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.
Breakfast News
Kentucky districts call off classes due to teacher absences
Package of gun restrictions set to become law in Vermont
Woman Given 5 Years In Prison For Illegally Voting Says She Didn’t Know She Was Ineligible
Widow of Orlando nightclub gunman is acquitted in the attack
Drugs will expire before court ruling on Nevada execution
Point Nemo, Earth’s watery graveyard for spacecraft
Childhood home of Robert E. Lee listed at $8.5M
Russia ramps up diplomatic tensions, expels more UK envoys
Kosovo fires spy chief after 6 Turks are secretly deported
Czechs extradite alleged Russian hacker to US
Thorny issues remain in Greece-Macedonia name dispute
Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile
Polish president vetoes bill demoting communist-era officers
Irish pubs open on Good Friday for 1st time in 90 years
Breakfast Blogs
Laura Ingraham Getting Outplayed and Outclassed by a High School Kid? Yes, Please. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Changes in the Conditions of Production Ed Walker, emptywheel
Your grotesque presidential corruption story of the day digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Their most vulnerable spot Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
House Intel Committee Findings Contradict Kushner’s Testimony Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Another Life That Didn’t Matter Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Democracy in Wisconsin DJW, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Glenn Greenwald is now David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
POLITICO: YOU’RE TIRED OF REPORTERS BEING NICE TO TRUMP VOTERS? SO LET’S BE NASTY TO CLINTON VOTERS! Steve M., No More Mister nice Blog
Mika Says Democrats Should ‘Take Notes’ From Trump Voters. I Got My Notes Right Here, Mika Frances Langum, Crooks and Liars
Jim Carrey Submits Official Trump Portrait, And Other News Suzie Madrak, Crooks and Liars
Michigan State University Reportedly Spent $500k To Monitor The Social Media Accounts Of Larry Nassar’s Accusers And Journalists Timothy Geigner, Techdirt