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
Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi born; ‘America’ first used on a world map; U.S. and Soviet troops meet in World War II; The Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit; Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
Breakfast News
NRA beset by infighting over whether it has strayed too far
US measles cases hit highest mark in 25 years
SC House gives near final backing to heartbeat abortion bill
Florida House passes bill allowing ex-felon voting rights
Boeing’s troubled jet is costing $1 billion to fix so far
Court rules police wrongdoing list must be made public
AP joins global initiative to expand reporting on religion
Hong Kong sentences leaders of 2014 democracy protests
New Zealand and France to call for an end to online terror
Rights group denounces ‘unfree and unfair’ Egyptian vote
Sri Lanka shakes up top security posts after deadly bombings
Emirati woman wakes up from stupor after 27 years
Breakfast Blogs
Surely It’s a Coincidence That a Firm Tied to a Russian Oligarch Is Pouring Millions Into Kentucky Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Commander-in-Chief Keeps Instructing His National Security Officials Not to Protect the Country emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Helpful Echidne Thoughts For Today Echidne, at her blog
Barr used to think the AG should defend an independent investigation from presidential criticism digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
See-no-people, hear-no-evil Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Gutting the Substance of a Security Council Resolution on Sexual Violence Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security
The Supreme Court Has No Role in Impeachment Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
Please Don’t Microaggression My Triggers Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Media’s Failure on Climate Change Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
For the Record: Lindsey Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
PLEASE KEEP MAKING REPUBLICAN VOTERS OVERCONFIDENT, RUSH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog