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
Islam’s Prophet Mohammed dies; James Earl Ray caught, wanted for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born; The N.Y. Yankees retire Mickey Mantle’s number.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present.
Breakfast News
Justice Ginsburg warns of more 5-4 decisions ahead
Trump says US, Mexico reach agreement to prevent tariffs
University of Alabama rejects $26M gift after abortion flap
FDA: ‘Influencers’ promoted vaping without suitable warnings
Court lifts injunction blocking Keystone XL oil pipeline
Abortions are legal in Guam, but doctors won’t perform them
Boeing wanted to wait 3 years to fix safety alert on 737 Max
Police use of DNA leads to backlash, changes to big database
Wells Fargo agrees to pay $385M to settle car loan lawsuit
FedEx will stop air shipments of packages for Amazon
Facebook stops Huawei from pre-installing apps on phones
Judge tosses 2 convictions in meningitis outbreak case
‘The Buffalo Hunt’ seeks to show tribe in a new light
Undone by Brexit, May steps down as Conservative leader
Ethiopian PM visits Sudan in bid to mediate crisis
Norway mediation effort in Venezuela’s crisis slows
Syria uses familiar tactic in rebel Idlib: Bombing civilians
France wins start amid World Cup cash, visibility issues
Host France opens World Cup with a 4-0 win over South Korea
Too much Dolce Vita can get you banned from Rome By FRANCES D’EMILIOtoday
Breakfast Blogs
The President* Is Just Trying to Toss Some Money Out the Window of the Getaway Car Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Claimed To Be Angry Flynn Didn’t Make Good on Putin’s January 21 Requested Phone Call emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He Always Hated Women. Or WaPo on Misogyny and the Alt Right. Echidne, at her blog
Tucker’s sleight of hand digby aka Heather Digby Partonn, Hullabaloo
Republicans Have Now Mandated Sexual Assaults on Women tristero, Hullabaloo
A bill of particulars Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Next Wave of Congressional Subpoena Litigation: Oversight Power vs. Executive Privilege Andy Wright, Just Security
Reflections on Robert Mueller Bob Bauer, Lawfare
The Merit Myth Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dispatches From the Party of Ideas (TM) Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 485 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Just Stop It: Trump Didn’t Rise to Any Damn Occasion in Europe The Rude Pundit, at his blog
IMAGINE AMERICA WITH TWO FLAGS Steve M., No More Mister Blog