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
Russian cosmonaut first man to walk in space; Mahatma Gandhi is sent to prison for civic disobedience, Italy’s Mussolini agrees to enter WWII; Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube removed; Singer John Philips dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Breakfast News
Christchurch gun shop sold rifles online to accused shooter
New Zealand citizens open to gun reform after massacre
Once sanctuaries, houses of worship struggle with security
Israel’s Supreme Court bans Jewish extremist from election
Hungarian leader tussles with EU as corruption concerns rise
Paris cleans up riot debris as support fades for protesters
Serbian protesters enter state TV headquarters in Belgrade
More evacuations in Midwest as floodwaters head downstream
Native Americans say movement to end ‘redface’ is slow
Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died
Southwest, mechanics reach tentative deal in labor dispute
Nevada considers technology to scan cellphones after crashes
Cod fishery plummets to least valuable year since 1960s
Thousands turn out for St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston
Where eagles flirt: A DC tale of love, loss and raccoons
Breakfast Blogs
On The Christchurch, NZ, Terrorist Massacre Echidne, at her blog
The Keystone XL Pipeline Just Hit a New Snag in Federal Court Charles P. Pierce, Esquire PoliticsThe “at Least One Other District” Mike Flynn’s Cooperation Live In emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Politics of the Green New Deal: Part 2 on Capital Ed Walker, emptywheel
A different kind of vote suppression digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“It Wasn’t Just Khashoggi” tristero, Hullabaloo
White fragility is a global terrorist threat Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Two Directions Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today In Both Sides Do It: The Nice Polite Republicans Strike Again driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: The End of Omar Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
GARBAGE PERSON ANDREW KLAVAN THINKS NOW IS AN EXCELLENT TIME TO RELITIGATE “THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog