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
A shooting rampage takes place at the University of Texas clock tower; Germany declares war on Russia in World War I; Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics; Author Herman Melville is born; MTV debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Breakfast Blogs
Republicans Are Pitching a Self-Defeating Tantrum Over Manchin Deal-making Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
War For Ukraine Day 158: Russia Decides To Try To Distract NATO Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
GOPers planning a new constitutional convention digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Threats and rumors of threats Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
When did book banning get all political? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The breakdown of the American system of government as illustrated by Social Security legislation Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns & Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,164 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns & Money
Now Is The Time For All Good Men To Send Money To My Potemkin Party driftglass, at his blog
The Calls Weren’t Coming From Inside the Bureau Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
A 2024 SCENARIO WE WON’T SEE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog