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
The Chernobyl nuclear accident; John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln’s assassin, killed; Guernica bombed in the Spanish Civil War; Vermont enacts same-sex civil unions; TV star Lucille Ball dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.
Breakfast News
Illinois Democrats’ plan to override gun dealer veto fizzles
Kilauea’s summit lava lake still overflowing into crater
Officials say radioactive sludge barrel ruptures now total 4
Without Trump nomination, judges vote to keep US attorney
Arizona unites to care for, feed kids during teacher strike
House member seeks to stop turkey drop at Arkansas festival
Kilauea’s summit lava lake still overflowing into crater
Kim Jong Un will walk across border for summit with Moon
Central American asylum seeking caravan reaches US border
Geologists say North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed
Chemical weapons team gathers more samples from Syrian town
Germans don Jewish skullcaps to protest anti-Semitism
Breakfast Blogs
We Know Where This Can Go Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The FISA Court Accepted 9% Fewer Combined Applications Last Year emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Incel Sites As Breeding Ground For Terrorism Echidne, at her blog
Swamp water cocktail digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
No DeLay in Trumpish corruption Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Politicization of Our Security Institutions Rachel Kleinfeld, Just Security
Elite Republicans Continue to Stand Up to Donald Trump Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
News? How Does it Work? driftglass, at his blog
http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2018/04/ill-say-it-again-to-trumpers-swamp-isnt.html Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
State Trooper Facing Murder Charges After Tasing A Teen Riding An ATV Tim Cushing, Techdirt