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
Alabama Gov. George Wallace shot on presidential campaign trail; Newly-founded Israel attacked by Arab neighbors; The U.S. Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil.; Country singer June Carter Cash dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.
Breakfast News
Bills would prohibit public schools from ‘meal shaming’
Eyes turn to Vermont as it sees success with health system
Lobster industry fears weaker shells, but evidence is mixed
Noisy Hawaiian volcano lava fissure prompts more evacuations
Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser erupts for 5th time this year
Mahathir bars predecessor from leaving Malaysia amid probe
Shiite cleric Sadr leads in Iraq’s initial election results
Isolated and threatened, Taiwan boosts domestic arms makers
Turkey’s Erdogan in UK, praises country as ‘real friend’
Saudi military says troops arrive in Yemen’s Socotra island
Militants attack Afghan government building, 10 dead
Breakfast Blogs
This Week in Toxic Caucasity Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Stefan Halper Wasn’t Downstream from the Steele Dossier emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Is Even One Mass Killing By Guns Proof That Gun Control Does Not Work? Day Two of Fund-Raising Week. Echidne, at her blog
Nobody cares about the criminal in the White House? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
We Must Be Doing Something Right… trisero, Hullabaloo
More than a horse race Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What the Heck is Happening in Al-Nashiri?: The Ten-Layer Dip at the Heart of the Latest Guantánamo Mess Steve Vladeck, Just Security
“Stop Hitting Yourself”: An Argument That Oddly Does Not Improve With Endless Repetition Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Let the McCain Slobberfest Begin! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
All the Concern Trolling That’s Fit to Print Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog