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
President Johnson names commission to investigate JFK’s assassination; U.N. passes resolution calling for the British Mandate of Palestine to be partitioned; First flight over the South Pole; Natalie Wood, Cary Grant and George Harrison die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
Breakfast News
Groups demand end to info-sharing on asylum-seeking children
Not just jobs riding on fate of GM plant after Trump promise
Ban on parents at school lunchrooms roils Connecticut town
LA joins other big cities in legalizing street vending
Prosecutors in abuse case search office of major US cardinal
Texas ruling may allow licensing of migrant family detention
Baltimore sues Trump administration over immigration policy
Putin derides Ukraine’s martial law as political trick
World faces ‘impossible’ task at post-Paris climate talks
French-born diplomat claims victory in Georgia vote
UK central bank warns of deep recession without Brexit deal
Breakfast Blogs
There’s a Reason Our Barking St. Bernard of a President* Doesn’t Do These Interviews Often
Trump’s Two Denials Could Provide Reason for Mueller to Demand an Interview emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump knew. Of course he knew. And Mueller knows he knew. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Do they have guns too? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Them’s Fightin’ Words? State Dept. Ramps Up Iran Rhetoric Brian Egan, Just Security
Roger Stone’s ‘Time in the Barrel’: Campaign Dirty Tricks, Political Sabotage and the Law Bob Bauer, Lawfare
Pseudo-economists with perfect records of never having been right about anything write unintentionally hilarious hagiography of Donald Trump Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
More From the Worst Cabinet Ever Scoot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Everything Old is New and Hilarious Again driftglass, at his blog
Got Paranoia? Disclaimer Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
THE HOCKEY PUCK STORY IS A REMINDER THAT THE GUNNERS ARE STILL WINNING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog