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
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. 146 people were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York. Aretha Franklin, Elton John born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A gender-equal society would be one where the word ‘gender’ does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
Breakfast News
Suddenly, cost-cutting states turn friendly to teachers
Protests held in Pittsburgh after cop cleared in shooting
Kansas death penalty case has implications for mentally ill
Petrochemical cleanup continues; Houston Ship Channel closed
California grower recalls avocados over possible listeria
Military-backed party leads Thailand’s post-coup election
New Zealand to probe role of spies, guns in mosque attacks
UK PM May faces heavy pressure to step down to save Brexit
Italy’s Premier Conte rules out another term in government
Kurds to be key swing vote in Turkey’s local elections
Breakfast Blogs
William Barr Did What He Was Hired to Do Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
How William Barr Did Old Man Back-Flips to Avoid Arresting Donald Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
So, why all the lies? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Brief Summary of the Mueller Report By Trump’s AG Does Not Exonerate Trump Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks Gets In On That Magic Ruralism (™) Dollar driftglass, at his blog
Mueller Said to His Man Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
SATSQ Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog