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
San Francisco Mayor shot to death; Gerald Ford named as Richard Nixon’s Vice President; Doctors perform world’s first partial face transplant; Playwright Eugene O’Neill dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Breakfast News
7 nooses found by Mississippi Capitol before Senate runoff
Supreme Court could allow suit over Apple iPhone apps’ sales
GM to lay off up to 14K workers, close as many as 5 plants
Slick roads, blowing snow delay air, road travel in Midwest
US officials: It’s OK to eat some romaine, look for labels
Scientists warn new Brazil president may smother rainforest
UK’s May fights to sell Brexit deal to a skeptical country
After dispute with Russia, Ukraine to impose martial law
UAE pardons, releases British academic convicted of spying
White House pastry chefs make National Mall in gingerbread
Breakfast Blogs
We Bear Responsibility for the Conditions in Honduras Causing Its People to Flee Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
After 14 Years, Conspiracy Artist Jerome Corsi Continues to Successfully Yank the Media’s Chain emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Daddy’s little girl on the hot seat digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A trio of distractions Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Frankie “The Thimblerigger” Luntz Did The Crime, Doesn’t Want To Do The Time driftglass, at his blog
Why Americans Should Care About Mueller’s Counterintelligence Probe—Aside from any Criminal or Political Implications Stephanie Douglas, Just Security
The Misogyny Tax Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith Is a Shit Human The Rude Pundit, at his blog
For the Record: D’Souza as academic historian, Shapiro as historical hallucinogen Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
THE ELVIS PRIMARY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog