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 Bill Clinton denies affair; first European settlers in Australia; General Douglas MacArthur is born; Wayne Gretzky born; musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ opens
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The air is the only place free from prejudice.
Breakfast News
Legal machinations push back Louisiana abortion law date
Asylum seekers worry new US policy will mean more waiting
Measles outbreak grows in northwest US, 31 cases reported
Decision to withhold Florida bank victim names tests new law
Experts: Decent chance Van Dyke’s sentence will be tossed
Coyote killing tweet spurs reproach of South Dakota governor
Last stop for train station’s flipping departures board
Marines rebuilding California tourist island’s runway
Dueling Venezuela leaders dig in defending presidency claims
Greek lawmakers ratify Macedonia name-change deal
UN envoy: No prospect Rohingya refugees can go home soon
Filipino Muslims approve new autonomous region in referendum
Breakfast Blogs
Government Has Been ‘the Problem’ Since Ronald Reagan. Except, Maybe, Until Now. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
How Roger the Rat Fucked Himself emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
A violation of the oath of office digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Criminal-in-chief Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Withering of the Giuliani Defense of “No Crime of Collusion” in Wake of Roger Stone’s Indictment Bob Bauer, Just Security
Stone Indicted, Collaborated With Enormously Successful Ratfucking Campaign Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How will the Trump presidency end? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Do We Have Your Attention Now, Leader McConnell?” Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
In which we compare Nancy Pelosi to Arjuna Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
HOW THE ROGER STONE ARREST LOOKS IN FOX NEWS BIZARRO WORLD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog