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
President George W. Bush announces major combat has ended in Iraq; U2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union; Empire State Building dedicated
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Breakfast News
Alabama House approves near total abortion ban
Tennessee spikes bill allowing LGBT adoption refusals
Energy Department says it will remove plutonium from Nevada
Washington state jail to give addiction meds after lawsuit
Pennsylvania Senate moves to slow replacing voting machines
North Carolina teachers plan new rally to press demands
LA judge rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted painting
Texas GOP Senate leader looks to block bipartisan pot bill
Parts of downtown Davenport, Iowa, flood as barrier fails
Young humpback whale dies after 2 strandings in Alaska
US weighs designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
Clashes rock Venezuela as Guaido, Maduro vie for power
Emperor announces abdication as Japan marks end of era
Naruhito inherits regalia in first duty as Japanese emperor
TV star Zelenskiy officially named new Ukrainian president
Rural Catholic church defies Sri Lanka threats, holds Mass
Sri Lanka lifts social media ban imposed after Easter blasts
Few heed latest call for caravan amid fear after police raid
France ramps up security measures for May Day protests
Congo Ebola cases hit record for most reported in single day
Enigmatic Beluga whale off Norway so tame people can pet it
Instagram story aims to engage new generation with Holocaust
Breakfast Blogs
The Story of How the Republican Tax Bill Passed Is Even Crazier and More Crooked Than Anyone Imagined Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Useful, but Willful, Idiot: “Page or” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Robert Mueller isn’t happy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“The biggest thing in transparency since transparency began” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
JFK Records Suit Tests CIA Secrecy on Assassination Jefferson Morley, Just Security
My country right or left Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Implications of Donald Trump’s Impunity Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Previewing the 2024 Republican Platform Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Devil and David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
Breaking Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DEMOCRATS, DON’T TRY TO NEGOTIATE AN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL WITH TRUMP — PASS ONE INSTEAD Steve M., No More Mister Nice blog