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
Charles Lindbergh begins his trans-Atlantic flight; Amelia Earhart starts her trek across the Atlantic; Freedom Riders attacked in the South; Explorer Christopher Columbus, comedienne Gilda Radner die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell
Breakfast News
Texas church opens new sanctuary 18 months after massacre
Hundreds protest Alabama abortion ban: ‘My body, my choice!’
Tribes, environmentalists battle copper mine in Arizona
Speaker stuns 2019 Morehouse grads, to pay off student debt
Missing red panda found safe in tree outside Fargo zoo
In Iran, a plunging economy trumps fears of US confrontation
Saudis say they will defend themselves, as Trump warns Iran
UN tells Italy proposed decree violates migrants’ rights
Vast gasoline lines form in oil-rich Venezuela
Swiss voters approve tighter gun laws, lining up with the EU
Famed Sherpa climber helps Nepal kids reach greater heights
Breakfast Blogs
The Question Isn’t How the Republican Party Produced This Disastrous President*. It’s How It Took This Long. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“I Have Been Sending Everything to Victor:” On Paul Manafort’s Treasury-Sanctioned Meeting Planner, Viktor Boyarkin emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Righteous fury, fully justified digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
National sterilization of the mind Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Republic of Lies Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A Trumpified Federal Judiciary Scott Lemiuex, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 476 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks Wonders How David Brooks Ever Came To Be
Notes from the Gawker spawn Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TO AMERICANS LIKE TRUMP, THERE ARE NO WAR CRIMES, JUST LIKE THERE’S NO POLICE BRUTALITY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog