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
Bruno Richard Hauptmann convicted in the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder; The World War II bombing of Dresden begins; Konstantin Chernenko becomes Soviet leader; Peter Gabriel born; Waylon Jennings dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Breakfast News
Rule could limit college response to off-campus sex assaults
Notorious drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman convicted
California governor scales back high-speed train
San Diego will sue US for releasing asylum-seeking families
Judge: US must reconsider climate impacts of Montana mine
Florida updates sea turtle nesting totals for 2018
Love on the rocks: Penguins celebrating Valentine’s Day
Sinaloa cartel marches on after El Chapo arrest, conviction
Maduro challenger plans caravans for US aid to Venezuela
Australia to reopen island detention camp after refugee bill
Trial of Catalan separatists begins in Madrid amid protests
Sardinian shepherds pour milk on roads to protest low prices
Polar bears invade Russian town; locals delighted but wary
Call me by my new name: Balkan nation is North Macedonia now
Study: Ancient European stone monuments spread from Brittany
Breakfast Blogs
This Ratf*cker Hired a Ratf*cker Because He’d Ratf*cked Him So Well Previously Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On SSCI’s Investigation: Manafort “Conspired” Whether or Not Trump Also “Colluded” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Trickster God And The Yearning For A Political Savior in American Politics Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s big parade digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“the ultimate cash flow mercenary” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Supreme Court and Military Jurisdiction Over Retired Servicemembers Steve Vladeck, Lawfare
Will Trump shut down the government again? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Which led me to a cash box labelled “Children’s Fund” I’d leave the change and tuck the bills inside my cummerbund Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Media Already Fucking Up the 2020 Campaign By Giving Trump a Pass on His Lies The Rude Pundit, at his blog
It’s Green and it’s New Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
OF COURSE THE KING OF “TRUTHFUL HYPERBOLE” WOULD EVENTUALLY LEAD THE “TRUTHFUL HYPERBOLE” PARTY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog