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
Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State; The U.S. Supreme Court upholds racial segregation; Pope John Paul II born in Poland; Movie director Frank Capra born; ‘Les Miserables’ ends its Broadway run.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite.
Breakfast News
Hawaii volcano erupts 6 mile-high plume, could blow again within hours
David Duke ordered to turn over Charlottesville messages
Glacier park says rebuild won’t permanently harm wildlife
Connecticut recruiting LGBT families to adopt, foster kids
N. Korea unlikely to return to talks with South over drills
‘Major, major game-changer’: Ebola spreads to big Congo city
German-Russian pipeline takes shape despite US protests
6 young squirrels rescued from ordeal of tangled tails
Rhino in San Diego pregnant, could help save subspecies
Archaeologists find street of balconies in Italy’s Pompeii
Breakfast Blogs
Democrats Join in to Make Torture a Bipartisan Affair Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The He Said, She Said That May Render MalwareTech’s Arresting Agents Useless on the Stand at Trial emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Re: The Bogus Manafort Challenge To Mueller’s Jurisdiction bmaz, emptywheel
Wingnut Propaganda FTW digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Is the volcano about to blow?Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
“Solutions” to Education Problems That Are Not Solutions Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Far Left” Scott Lemiuex, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
NO LIBERALISM, PLEASE, WE’RE THE LIBERAL MEDIA Steve M., No MOre Mister Nice Blog