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
Bomb strikes a West Berlin disco; Gen. Douglas MacArthur and billionaire Howard Hughes die; Educator Booker T. Washington born; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar sets an NBA record; Katie Couric to become CBS anchor.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Breakfast News
As Oklahoma teachers strike drags on, frustration mounts
Minneapolis police put teeth in stricter body camera rules
Federal judge expands tribal ID options for North Dakota
Iowa advances immigration bill banning ‘sanctuary cities’
Nation’s lowest unemployment rate is no paradise for Hawaii
Court lifts block on Montana dam in endangered fish dispute
Federal protections sought for mustangs in Montana mountains
Erdogan: Turkey to keep pushing Kurds out of Syria’s north
Brazil’s top court spars over jail for ex-President da Silva
Iraq grapples with Iranian influence ahead of May elections
Russia loses vote to join spy poisoning probe; next stop UN
Tourists, commuters seek workarounds to French train strikes
Greek minister says country vigilant against ‘enemy’ Turkey
Milky Way core may harbor thousands of black holes: study
Climate change makes mountain tops bloom, for now
Breakfast Blogs
The Version of Martin Luther King the White House Is Peddling Is a Crime Against History Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mueller Tells Guy Who Legally Can’t Be a Target That He’s Not a Target, Perhaps in a Bid to Make Him Legally Targetable emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts, 4/4/18: Fake News, Paraguayan Abortion Laws And Amazon Customer Reviews Echidne, at her blog
When morons run the world digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“Trounced” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Another Airstrike in Kunduz, and More Civilian Deaths Patricia Gossman, Just Security
This morning in the Dunning-Kruger presidency Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 227 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ARE AS BLINDLY PRO-GOP AS THE DEPLORABLES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Judge Tosses Charges Against Journalist Who Published Docs Leaked To Her By A Police Officer Tim Cushing, Techdirt