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
Albert Einstein born; Eli Whitney receives patent for cotton gin; First US Astronaut in space on Russian rocket; Michael Caine and Quincy Jones born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Breakfast News
Storm blasts winter-weary Northeast; thousands lose power
Delaware’s last 2 death row inmates resentenced to life
Student walkouts planned across US to protest gun violence
Snake vlogger faces new set of scales over animal cruelty
Judge: Yellowstone grizzly lawsuits to proceed as hunt looms
Turkish forces surround Kurdish town in northern Syria
Egyptian authorities call on citizens to report on the media
Landslide in central Croatia destroys houses amid floods
Palestinian prime minister escapes injury in Gaza bombing
Japan’s Abe: NKorea must take real steps to denuclearization
Breakfast Blogs
What’s Going on with These Mysterious Deaths? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Welcome to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mr. Pompeo — the Latest Committee to Have Reason to Investigate Russia! emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Meet You At The Wall Echidne, at her blog
What’s the matter with rural America? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Innocence Established By Thorough, Impartial Investigation Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mueller’s Choice of Criminal Charges: Why the Trump Team Should Be Very Worried Sam Berger, Just Security
WHY I DON’T THINK TILLERSON WAS FIRED FOR BLAMING THE BRITISH NERVE GAS POISONING ON THE RUSSIANS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog