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
Alexander Graham Bell successfully tests telephone; James Earl Ray pleads guilty to MLK assassination; Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko dies; Scarsdale Diet author killed; Odd Couple opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Breakfast News
Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Gun Bill That Arms Some School Staff Into Law
NRA Sues To Block Brand-New Gun Law In Florida
California Veterans Home On Lockdown Amid Hostage Situation
Detained immigrants separated from children in US sue Trump administration
Disneyland workers demonstrate at Walt Disney Co. meeting demanding ‘living wages’
‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Gets 7 Years For Defrauding Investors
Trump’s Military Parade Planned For Veterans Day — Without Tanks
Let there be light, an hour longer into the evening sky
Florida weighs seceding from daylight saving time Miami Herald
Macron warns Trump all sides would lose in ‘trade war’
Aid delivered to Syria’s Ghouta amid renewed violence
Kenya president and opposition leader agree to unify country
Vote on Catalonia’s new president canceled to await EU court
Breakfast Blogs
Drill, Baby, Drill—in 2028? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Preferred Anti-Obama Russian Hack Story Remains Silent on Shadow Brokers emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Shorting the US-DPRK Meeting [UPDATED] Rayne, emptywheel
The Madman Summit Ryu Spaeth, New Republic
Friday Night Soother: Michelle Obama edition digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Florida Will Arm Teachers, Give Millions to Gun Makers & Allies, Won’t Ban Assault Weapons Spocko, Hullabaloo
Department of Peace Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Campus PC Is Out Of Control Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Eisenhower Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Tweet and Sour: March 9, 2018 Vaucuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
REMEMBER, TRUMP’S GOING TO MEET KIM JONG-UN AND LIKE HIM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Wikimedia’s Transparency Report: Guys, We’re A Wiki, Don’t Demand We Take Stuff Down Mike Masnick, Techdirt