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
Chinese troops crush a pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square; World War II’s Battle of Midway begins; Henry Ford tests his quadricycle; Bruce Springsteen releases ‘Born in the U.S.A.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Breakfast News
At least 7 killed, 20 hurt by erupting volcano in Guatemala
China warns US trade deals are off if tariffs go ahead
5 years on, US government still counting Snowden leak costs
From distillers to farmers, trade war would cause casualties
Fallon to Parkland students: ‘Don’t let anything stop you’
Concerned about elder abuse, states loan out secret cameras
Officials urged to meet with NAACP about Coast Guard Academy
As clam harvesting declines, could farming be the answer?
Breakfast Blogs
Lousy Grammar Doesn’t Make You a Working-Class Hero Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Giant Holes in Trump’s Mike Flynn Story Point to “Collusion,” Not Obstruction emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Cathy Young on Jordan Peterson And Feminism. And My Responses. Echidne, at her blog
The US says bow down: or else digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Worst Republican President Ever tristero, Hullabaloo
International law? What international law? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Pardons, Obstruction of Justice and the Rule of Law in the Demagogic Presidency Bob Bauer, Lawfare
A Modest Proposal Eric Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Michael Steele Bumping Fists with Every “Serious” Republican’s Dearest Friend In The Whole, Wide World driftglass, at his blog
RUDY GIULIANI IS EFFECTIVELY DONALD TRUMP’S VICE PRESIDENT NOW Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog