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 Andrew Johnson impeached; The Nazi Party holds its first major meeting; Manila liberated during World War II; Britain’s Prince Charles, Lady Diana Spencer engaged; Lauryn Hill’s Grammy feat.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Breakfast News
Who is No. 1? Whoever gets to fill out 2020 Census form
For Virginia Tech parents, new gun laws a long struggle
US ‘honor roll’ of historic places often ignores slavery
Judge halts plan to move virus patients to California city
Groups want cows corralled to protect jumping mouse habitat
Bear that wandered yards near Los Angeles moved to forest
American consumption of fish rises slightly to 11-year high
UNESCO plaque unveiled at Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House
Skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash
Moscow targets Chinese with raids amid virus fears
Italy rushes to contain Europe’s first major virus outbreak
Haiti police exchange fire with troops near national palace
Carnival in Belgium again has Jewish stereotypes in parade
German, Dutch carnival parades called off due to weather
Brazilian transgender dancer shatters Carnival parade taboo
Colombians grapple with a big problem: wandering hippos
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Disregard for Truth-Tellers Is Just a Crude Extension of Previous Presidents Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
A Discussion of a Pardon for Assange Is Why Stone’s Threats against Credico Worked emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The politicization of the Intelligence Community is complete digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Unacceptable tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What Bernie did right Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What Really Happened at the Roger Stone Sentencing Mikhaila Fogel, Lawfare
If Only You Believe in Miracles So Would I Scott Lemeiux, lawyers, Guns and Money
The Apotheosis of Nixonism Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Charlie Sykes is On My Corner driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Is Sanders a Russian tool? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
GOP SABOTEURS IN SOUTH CAROLINA MIGHT DO ANTI-SANDERS DEMOCRATS A FAVOR Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog