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
President Ronald Reagan born; Hillary Clinton runs for the U.S. Senate; Britain’s King George VI dies; baseball legend Babe Ruth and reggae superstar Bob Marley born
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Breakfast News
Facebook, YouTube: Firm must stop scraping faces from sites
Feds investigate Mississippi prisons after string of deaths
Companies offer rebuke of Tennessee’s anti-LGBT adoption law
Photos of ‘king tides’ globally show risks of climate change
Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103
Atlanta college names building for baseball icon Hank Aaron
10 more sick with virus on one of two isolated cruise ships
Iraqi officials say Baghdad wants to minimize reliance on US
EU focuses on Balkans for enlargement after Brexit
Scientists dive into ‘Midnight Zone’ to study dark ocean
Breakfast Blogs
The Senate Has Failed to Convict Donald Trump on Impeachment Charges Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The FBI Downloaded CIA’s Hacking Tools Using Starbuck’s WiFi emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The State of the Union Reality Show digby aka Heahter Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
We Couldn’t Keep It tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Breaking reality Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Reading Between the Votes: 53 Senators Say Trump Guilty on the Facts Ryan Goodman, Just Security
How Bushfires Will Affect Australia’s Security Rachel Westrate, Lawfare
“Remember the St. Louis” Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Douglas Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What Are You Going to Do When Bernie Wins the Nomination? Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s Unanimous Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Gone baby gone Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
UPDATE: That Sweet Sweet Both Siderist Poteen. driftglass, at his blog
Coverup Is Everywhere Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
YOUR RIGHT-WING UNCLE THINKS MITT ROMNEY IS A MORMON BIDEN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Former Rep. Kweisi Mfume, Actual Resident Of Elijah Cummings’s District, Wins Primary For His Seat Liz Dye, Wonkette
Nancy Pelosi Didn’t Just Tear Trump’s Speech In Half, SHE TORE HIS FEELINGS IN HALF! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Elizabeth Warren Promises Little Girl She’ll Close The Camps Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Tom Steyer Paid SC Legislator $43K For One Month Of Advanced Blackness Studies Stephen Robinson, Wonkette