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
Britain enacts the Stamp Act on its American colonies; The ‘Garbage Barge’; Skater Tara Lipinski reaches the record books; The Beatles release ‘Please Please Me’; Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There’s no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
Breakfast News
Hundreds of Kentucky teachers rally to oppose benefit cuts
With police near, suspected Austin bomber blows himself up
Saccone concedes Pennsylvania US House race to Lamb
Report: Coal’s tipping point near, but climate goals are not
As Louisiana island shrinks, state paying to move residents
Powerful storm puts California towns at risk of slides
First woman, LGBT lawmaker to lead California Senate
EU unveils new tax plans that could hit US tech giants
Russia-UK war of words over ex-spy’s poisoning gets uglier
Peru’s president offers resignation amid political turmoil
Boko Haram returns Nigeria girls, warns not to put in school
African nations sign largest free trade agreement since WTO
Researcher captures striking Antarctic video of minke whale
Breakfast Blogs
Pete Peterson Meets St. Peter Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect
Behold: a Good Week for Voting Rights Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Iran-Contra Cover-Up King Doesn’t Address Sessions’ Other Lies, or Conspiracy-in-Chief emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Look at all the women digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Austin Bomber tristero, Hullabaloo
“Ashamed” of the Fox “propaganda machine” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Did Cambridge Analytica Leverage Russian Disinformation for Trump? Justin Hendrix, Just Security
Why Republicans Won’t Do Anything When Trump Fires Mueller Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Shut Up and Take My Money Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
NEW AND OLD MEDIA WERE BAD IN 2016, JUST THE WAY MUCH OF THE PUBLIC WANTED THEM TO BE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
ProPublica’s Reporting Error Shows Why The Government Must Declassify Details Of Gina Haspel’s Role In CIA Torture Mike Masnick, Techdirt