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
South Africa frees Nelson Mandela; Allied leaders in the last months of World War II sign the Yalta accords; Ayatollah Khomeini’s followers seize power in Iran; inventor Thomas Edison born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Breakfast News
Ban on treatments for transgender kids fails in South Dakota
US speeds cases of translators, others blocked by travel ban
Drugs fail to slow decline in inherited Alzheimer’s disease
Not all born in American Samoa want US citizenship
Mississippi inmate death toll rises amid emergency extension
Agreement will help speed cleanup of the Housatonic River
Maryland unveils statues of Tubman, Douglass in Capitol
China’s daily death toll from virus tops 100 for first time
Virus stretches limits of strained public health systems
Irish election produces an earthquake as Sinn Fein tops poll
Australian court rules indigenous people can’t be deported
UN warns of ‘major shock’ as Africa locust outbreak spreads
Samba goes global as foreign dancers bring Rio Carnival home
Breakfast Blogs
In Any Sane Country, Trump’s New Budget Would Be Political Suicide Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Timothy Shea Signs Off on Aggressive Sentencing Recommendation for Roger Stone emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Graham blows Barr’s cover digby aka Heather Digby Parton, <Digby’s Hullabaloo
What color is your aircraft carrier? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo