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
Islam’s Prophet Mohammed dies; James Earl Ray caught, wanted for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born; The N.Y. Yankees retire Mickey Mantle’s number.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
Breakfast News
Tests show toxic heavy metals near Wisconsin sand mine spill
Hundreds of residents ordered to evacuate as Colorado wildfire rages
New Jersey lawmakers OK, send to governor 6 new gun bills
Arkansas court hears case over medical marijuana permits
Iowa judge rules transgender women deserve surgery coverage
Florida officials told student diversion programs often work
Facebook says privacy-setting bug affected as many as 14M
New coastline emerges as Kilauea pumps more lava to the sea
NASA rover data shows Mars had the ingredients needed for life
At Guatemala volcano, search halted as death toll hits 109
Aid freeze, politics push Gaza’s people deeper into poverty
Afghan president announces holiday cease-fire with Taliban
Putin says Russian military not building long-term in Syria
Egypt repatriates stolen ancient artifacts from France
Scientists, animal activists: Don’t cull Romanian brown bear
Once-drab Warsaw changed by wealth into booming modern city
Breakfast Blogs
This Is What 40 Years of Conservative Intellectual Ferment Looks Like Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Smoking Craters Where Trump Deal Brokers Used to Be emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Oh heck, you mean people are actually concerned about Trump after all? digby aka Heather Digby Partton, Hullabaloo
Some Good, In Fact Wonderful, News tristero, Hullabaloo
Foundation and Trumpire Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Far from “Thin,” Evidence of Manafort’s Witness Tampering Likely Meets Necessary Standard Alex Whiting and Renato Mariotti, Just Security
The Racially Egalitarian American Meritocracy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
No Victory in Europe Melissa Byrnes, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 246 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Three Generations of Beltway Inbreeding Are Enough driftglass, at his blog
NO, TRUMP WILL NOT GIVE JEANINE PIRRO A JUDGESHIP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog