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
Ed White is the first American to walk in space; Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Pope John XXIII die; Britain’s Duke of Windsor weds Wallis Simpson; Poet Allen Ginsberg and entertainer Josephine Baker born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.
Breakfast News
Georgia still has no hate crimes law despite many tries
Mass shootings transform how America talks, prays, prepares
Partisan control determines how states act on voting rights
White House: Trump ‘deadly serious’ about Mexico tariffs
Oklahomans clean up after flood; Arkansans brace for crest
California snowpack 202% of average for this time of year
Vermont’s Killington is capping another rare ski season
Top North Korean official reappears days after purge report
German government wobbles after Social Democrat leader quits
Protest in Hungary over govt plan to seize research network
Italian navy ship with 100 rescued migrants docks in Genoa
Israel attacks Syrian base hours after hitting other targets
5 injured in Venice as cruise ship slams into tourist boat
Protesters tear down Zhukov bust in Ukraine
Danube water levels drop but not enough to reach sunken boat
Breakfast Blogs
President* Trump’s Mexico Tariffs Cannot Be Explained—Including by His Own Administration* Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
If FBI Had Spied on Trump’s Campaign As Alleged, They’d Have Known Why Manafort Traded Michigan for Ukraine emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Echidne’s Music Hour. Pekka Streng Echidne, at her blog
The public starts to move on impeachment digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
How do you solve a problem like The Donald? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The dishonest hackery of Alan Dershowitz Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Honors Junk Scientist Who Helped Motivate His Own Massively Failed Policies Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
One Loopy Piehole; and Prolegomena to a Discussion of Russia Sanctions Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
MORE GUN EROTICA FOR LIBERALS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog