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
Scientists discover DNA’s double-helix structure; The Branch Davidian standoff begins in Waco, Texas; Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme assassinated; U2 releases its ‘War’ album.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If we don’t have the moral courage to challenge authority, we don’t have journalism.
Breakfast News
Dispute erupts over investigation into alleged Trump-Russia contacts
Jewish centers and schools cope with another wave of bomb threats
White House accused of blocking information on bank’s Trump-Russia links
Trump navy secretary nominee withdraws citing disruption to financial interests
NGO rescues off Libya encourage traffickers, says EU borders chief
Journalist for German newspaper arrested in Turkey
Hunters accidentally saved during Royal Canadian Air Force search-and-rescue training
‘Oui on peut’: 40,000 sign petition for Barack Obama as next French president
Bill Paxton, star of Aliens, Titanic and Apollo 13, dies at 61
Breakfast Blogs
Hey, Look, Another Russian Connection in Trump’s Cabinet Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Devin Nunes Doesn’t Think Donald Trump Should be Subject To the Kind of “Witch Hunt” He Conducted with Edward Snowden emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump:”Nobody Knew That Health Care Could Be So Complicated.” Call Me Nobody Then. Echidne, at her blog
“Let it be a disaster” Trump’s new credo digby aka Heather digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Women for Coat Hangers?? tristero, Hullabaloo
But in the Case of Carlos… driftglass, at his blog
The Assassination of Keith Ellison by the Neoliberal Coward Tom Perez Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Modest Proposal Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog