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
An accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant; Former President Dwight Eisenhower dies; The Spanish Civil War ends; Maria von Trapp of ‘Sound of Music’ fame dies; Singer Reba McEntire is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Continue to speak out against all forms of injustice to yourselves and others, and you will set a mighty example for your children and for future generations.
Breakfast News
US News
Firefighters increase containment on Colorado wildfire
Atlanta airport to replace X-ray machines with new scanners
Researchers: Fast-warming Gulf of Maine set record in 2021
Convoy protesting COVID mandates to rolls on to California
Fauci named keynote speaker at Roger Williams U commencement
Alabama school donates missile, launcher to veterans museum
Nevada casino to pay $8M for serving chemicals, not beer
Iditarod punishes 3 mushers for sheltering dogs in windstorm
Miami casino works to save beloved jai alai from extinction
US Politics
Supreme Court agrees to review California law on pork sales
Biscuits or bratwurst: GOP weighs its convention choices
Justice Thomas joins arguments remotely after hospital stay
US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska announces resignation
International News
Live updates: Italian officials restate support for Ukraine
Ukraine leader says he seeks peace ‘without delay’ in talks
Russia shifts focus to try to grind Ukraine’s army in east
Ukraine war threatens food supplies in fragile Arab world
Germany: G7 rejects Russia’s demand to pay for gas in rubles
Bountiful wind, sun boost German renewable power this year
Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety
War shakes Europe path to energy independence, climate goals
Taliban hard-liners turning back the clock in Afghanistan
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi misses court hearings due to quarantine
Arab, US top diplomats in Israel as Mideast dynamic shifts
Ethiopia urged to uphold press freedom and release reporter
Sports
Defending champion Stanford tops Texas 59-50 in Elite 8
Duke-Carolina, Kansas-Nova set for epic Final Four showdowns
Breakfast Blogs
The Anti-Choice People Are Turning Themselves Into Political Pretzels Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Whinger Verbs: To Investigate … To Prosecute … To Indict emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
War for Ukraine Update 33: The Russians Keep Pounding Away, the Ukrainians Keep Fighting Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
The Dems are ignoring a major issue digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Counterattack Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The absurdity of marijuana law in the USA Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,054 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
BIDEN’S WEALTH TAX PROPOSAL INVITES THE MEDIA TO CALL REPUBLICANS ON THEIR BULLSHIT (WHICH WON’T HAPPEN) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog