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
Sen. Joseph McCarthy is censured; Scientists demonstrate the world’s first artificially-created, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction; Enron files for Chapter 11 protection; Colombian drug lord is shot and killed.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Breakfast News
Deadly storm moves cross country taking aim at Northeast
Sugar field burning plagues poor Florida towns with soot
Lobster catch headed for decline, not crash, scientists say
Mountain village embraces its legacy as cure center for TB
Justices take up gun case, though disputed law has changed
Alabama unveils statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks
With prime minister out, Iraq in constitutional ‘black hole’
UN chief warns of ‘point of no return’ on climate change
Malta leader to resign amid protests over reporter’s death
New EU leaders take office vowing to tackle climate change
Fukushima melted fuel removal begins 2021, end state unknown
50 children killed by measles in Samoa as outbreak worsens
Albania calls for international help to recover from quake
Breakfast Blogs
Democrats Must Get a Handle on What ‘Unity’ Means When Taking on a Renegade Presidency* Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Every Sperm Is Sacred. And Each Ectopic Pregnancy, Too. Echidne, at her blog
The whistleblower was right digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“Broke” culture Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump Needs Conspiracy Theories Peter Nicholas, The Atlantic
Samoa DJW, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Build Your Own Strawman Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Concern trolling: Toward 2020 Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
COULD THIS REALLY WORK FOR TRUMP? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Plucky Utah Fifth Graders Take On Homophobic Substitute Teacher And Win Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette