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
Peace talks conclude in Northern Ireland with Good Friday agreement; the Titanic sets sail; F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ published; Comedian Sam Kinison killed.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
Breakfast News
Court: Women can’t be paid less than men based on past wages
Democratic attorneys general fight Texas health care lawsuit
Lawsuit deal aimed at helping Flint kids exposed to lead
Major banking group sides with Senate in Dodd-Frank overhaul
Atlanta marks 50 years since King’s funeral services
Trump’s company asked Panama president to help in hotel spat
Kim Jong Un briefs party leaders on future dialogue with US
Tensions rachet up as Israel blamed for Syria missile strike
Hungary’s pro-migrant groups seen as targets after election
Business of culture on menu for Saudi crown prince in France
Gulf feud hits new low with proposal to make Qatar an island
Cambodian election body warns against poll boycott calls
Breakfast Blogs
Stop Listening to Anything Conservatives Say About Debt Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Arrogance Echidne, at her blog
Michael Cohen’s Stormy Weather: Four Observations emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Remember, the FBI raided Trump Org associates last week, asking about Cohen digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dearest John Bolton tristero, Hullabaloo
Walking into a spear Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
‘Why Did You Wait?’: Moral Emptiness and Drone Strikes Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
On the Shameful Abrogation of Kevin Williamson’s Inalienable Right to Troll the Specific Audience of His Choice Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It must be nice to be born without a sense of shame. Steven Atwell, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Normalizing Trump DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
JAMES BENNET, JEFFREY GOLDBERG, HERE’S A POTENTIAL NEW HIRE FOR YOU Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The New York Times Tries Something Novel: Listening To And Interacting With Readers Karl Bode, Techdirt