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
Martin Luther King, Junior born;Richard Nixon suspends U.S. offensive in Vietnam;Queen Elizabeth the First crowned;Work completed on Pentagon;first Super Bowl takes place.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Breakfast News
Kentucky clinic given OK to apply for abortion license
California housing crisis: Oakland moms evicted by deputies
Kentucky coal miners remain on tracks blocking coal shipment
Bills seek to end ‘conversion therapy’ in Kentucky
Black prosecutors back Gardner, say they’ve faced resistance
Arizona bill banning sex ed before 7th grade going nowhere
Experts seek answers behind constant quakes in Puerto Rico
Officials: Dam at Mississippi lake could soon fail
NSA finds major security flaw in Windows 10, free fix issued
EU pressures Iran on atom deal in last-ditch bid to save it
Rights group says China is trying to silence critics abroad
Iran announces arrests over downing of plane that killed 176
Australian wildfire smoke stokes health fears in cities
Philippine volcano trembles more, spews lava half-mile high
Cuba warns citizens to prepare for cooking-gas shortages
Big Ben, big bucks: Brexit bell plan hits financial hurdle
Breakfast Blogs
The Climate Crisis Is Starting to Scare the Money Power Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Is Bill Barr Picking a Fight with Apple to Distract from the Failure of Trump’s Social Media Vetting? enptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“She’s going to go through some things” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
To be (tried) or not to be Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What the State Department Legal Adviser Promised Congress on Iran Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Those Rats Won’t Fuck Themselves! Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Not funny like a clown Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Corbynism: A Post Mortem Davis Brockington, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Because It Can’t Be Reduced to a Stupid, Golf-Cap-Sized Slogan… driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Ignorance Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
YOUR RIGHT-WING UNCLE ALREADY THINKS THE BURISMA HACK STORY IS A LIE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Rudy, You Cannot Lie When Lev Parnas Has Receipts! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Oh Yeah Sh*t’s Getting Real Rebecca Schoenkopf, Wonkette
Study Finds ‘Abortion Regret’ Exists Only In Fevered Imaginations Of GOP Legislators Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Australian Prime Minister Too Tone Deaf To Fiddle While His Country Burns Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Let’s Play ‘Russia If You’re Listening’ Mad Libs! Come On, It’ll Be Fun! Evan Hurst, Wonkette