The Breakfast Club (Progress)

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.

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This Day in History

‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is first published; Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America; ‘Chicago Seven’ defendants in court; Dale Earnhardt, Senior dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Shirley Chisholm

Breakfast News

School board in Virginia may end transgender bathroom ban

Judge bars immigration policing criteria for 2 grants

Hearing into unresolved US House race could find winner

Groups: ICE detainees in Boston jail go on hunger strike

Dog reunited with owner after 8 month, 175-mile journey

7 right whale calves spotted in Florida’s Atlantic waters

In Brexit limbo, UK veers between high anxiety, grim humor

China’s leaders want more babies, but local officials resist

Iran pressures Europe to do more to save the nuclear deal

Polish PM cancels Israel visit amid new Holocaust tensions

Does Catalan crisis threaten to make Spain ‘ungovernable’?

Breakfast Blogs

Bill Weld Has What Any Republican Needs to Primary Trump: He Doesn’t Give a Damn Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Roger Stone and the Dozens of Search Warrants on Accounts Used to Facilitate the Transfer and Promotion of Stolen Democratic Emails emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Trumpergency Speech. Or The National Emergency Which Isn’t National. Echidne, at her blog

“What did you do when the Taliban came? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

On a scale of Trump Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The National Emergency and the President’s Lawyers Bob Bauer, Lawfare

The Authenticity Police Live Inside Their Own Ass Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Professional Zombie Plague Weaponizer Decries All These Zombies driftglass, at his blog

For the Record: The Rhetoric of Emergency Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

SHOULD WE REALLY ASSUME THAT VOTERS IN TRUMP COUNTRY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog