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
The 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center; President Ronald Reagan rebuked over Iran-Contra; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba; Singers Fats Domino and Johnny Cash born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
Breakfast News
Worker visas in doubt as Trump immigration crackdown widens
High-stakes trial starts in Roundup weed killer cancer claim
Technology helps San Francisco erase 8,000 pot convictions
New hearing rejected for pipeline to cross Appalachian Trail
Listeria prompts recall for green beans, butternut squash
Judge OKs settlement from nation’s largest natural gas leak
High winds cut power, inundate Lake Erie shoreline with ice
February rainfall breaks Tennessee River Valley records
American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event
Iran’s foreign minister resigns as his nuclear deal teeters
Nigerian president takes early lead amid vote-rigging charge
UK makes move to ban membership in Hezbollah
Main UK opposition party takes step to back new Brexit vote
Syria’s Assad visits Iran in rare trip abroad
Breakfast Blogs
At Some Point, a Gerrymandered Legislature Can’t Make Laws Legitimately Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Manafort’s Bid for a Pardon: No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump’s pathetic “emoluments” contributions digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Room 101 Tom Sullivan, Hulabaloo
Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum: Citizenship and Expatriation in the U.S. and U.K. Jonathan Shaub, Lawfare
NDAs And the Sexual Predator in Chief Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
John Cornyn is a Fascist Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who Killed Owen Taylor? A True Detective Season Three Explainer driftglass, at his blog
New York Note Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
I DON’T BELIEVE MURKOWSKI AND COLLINS WILL REALLY VOTE AGAINST THE TRUMP EMERGENCY DECLARATION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog