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 10:30am (ET) 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
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (sic) suffers a stroke and lapses into a coma; the inventor of braille, a reading system for the blind, is born; Jesse Ventura sworn in as Minnesota’s governor, poet T.S. Eliot dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Breakfast News
Global regulators postpone pivotal banking reform meeting
Jovenel Moise clinches Haiti presidency, poll fraud ruled out
Children aged 7 to 17 killed in Texas home by toxic chemical gas
Maine governor signs measure allowing recreational marijuana use
Convicted mass killer Manson hospitalized outside prison: reports
Shaker group founded in 1783 has just two members after Maine woman dies
Fiji earthquake tsunami threat passes after 7.2-magnitude tremor
Breakfast Blogs
Here’s How We Prepare To Be Ungovernable In 2017 Sarah Lazare, Crooks and Liars
This Was Treason. Nixon Did It. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Yes, this happened and nobody cares digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are — Oops! No Russians! emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Triumphant Return of Rand Paul Running Away from Things driftglass, at his blog
Breaking News: Alleged Embodiment Of Zeitgeist Still Very Unpopular Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Thomas Frank’s Own Private Idaho Scott Lemiuex, Lawyers, Guns and Money