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 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie; Slobodan Milosevic begins his defense against war crimes charges; Dolly the cloned sheep dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
erty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Breakfast News
California governor wants users to profit from online data
Teen migrant detention facility allows a glimpse inside gate
Mississippi advances ban on abortion after fetal heartbeat
Panel sends $15 Illinois minimum wage plan to House floor
Jury sides with transgender employee in ‘historic’ Iowa case
Absent Iran takes center stage at Mideast talks in Poland
Japanese same-sex couples sue for equal marital rights
NATO chief says allies keen to avoid arms race with Russia
UN court has jurisdiction to hear part of Iran-US dispute
UK government downplays suggestion it will seek Brexit delay
Breakfast Blogs
The Senate Just Did Something Surprisingly Good for Our Land Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Amy Berman Jackson Rules that Manafort Lied about Possible Criminal Activity Related to Donald Trump’s Campaign emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The authenticity BS digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Bridges not walls Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Who is Richard Burr, Really? Why the public can’t trust his voice in the Russia probe Ryan Goodman, Just Security
The Center Isn’t Where Voters Are Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
In the land of the blind: Michael Scott for president Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Just Cause Firing Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
On Doing The Thing You’re Never Supposed To Do driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Very, Very on Its Way Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
FRANK BRUNI TO DEMOCRATS: STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO PEOPLE LIKE ME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog