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
Start of Operation Desert Storm; Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off; Prohibition takes effect ; Shah of Iran flees into exile; musical “Hello Dolly” opens.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.
Breakfast News
Charter school educators back striking Los Angeles teachers
California storms bring mudslide fears, blizzard warning
Judge bars citizenship question from 2020 census
PG&E bankruptcy could mean price hikes, unpaid fire lawsuits
School board votes to postpone policy to arm teachers
Earthquake reported off coast of Maryland
UK’s May faces no-confidence vote after Brexit plan crushed
Last year’s Central American caravan dwindles, new one forms
Huawei founder says company would not share user secrets
Saudi teen says wants to work for freedom for women
China criticizes Trudeau comments on death penalty case
Taliban threaten to end talks with US on ending Afghan war
Breakfast Blogs
William Barr Was Chosen By This Administration* to Protect This Administration* Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Compromise: Sally Yates’ Warning about Vulnerability to Blackmail Applied to Trump Even More than Mike Flynn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Big Deliverable digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Bridge for Sale — Manhattan to Brooklyn — Cheep tristero, Hullabaloo
This presidency’s coda? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
We need a total and complete shutdown of Michigan State until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Why it’s racist to call racists racist Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Real Americans Are Hurting While Trump Wants to Stop Fantasy Immigrants The Rude Pundits, at his blog
For the Record: There is a crisis at the border Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
USING FOOD AS CONTROL IS A TRUMP SPECIALTY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog