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
Deadly shootings at Kent State during the Vietnam War; Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s prime minister; Chicago’s Haymarket Riot; ‘Freedom Riders’ head South; Birth of the outfit behind the Oscars.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!
Breakfast News
House passes $1.1T government spending bill, sends to Senate
Levee breaks, river closure latest fallout from flooding
Texas Legislature passes ban on so-called ‘sanctuary cities’
3 shootings by police put spotlight on Justice Department
In dairy-obsessed Wisconsin, plan just too ‘gouda’ to fail
No holds-barred debate between Le Pen and Macron
Anger grows in South Korea over US anti-missile system
UK Brexit chief rejects 100 billion-euro Brexit bill
Clashes in Venezuela as Maduro starts constitutional rewrite
Russia, Turkey agree to support safe-zones in Syria
Breakfast Blogs
Thoughts From a Hospital Bed Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
“He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The truth in your gut Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Wingnut Welfare: It’s a Simple, Little System driftglass, at his blog
Area Journalist Pretends Not to Understand That Events Have Multiple Causes Because it Would Make His Paper Look Bad Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Doctor my lies Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
BRET STEPHENS SUCCESSFULLY EDDIE HASKELLS THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLIC EDITOR Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
At Senate Hearing, Comey Hints At Expanded NSL Powers And Encryption Backdoors Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Don’t Get Fooled: The Plan Is To Kill Net Neutrality While Pretending It’s Being Protected Mike Masnick, Techdirt