The Breakfast Club (Speak Out)

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.

Bernice King

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