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
On this date in 1941, Japanese forces attack the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii – prompting America under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to enter World War II.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Breakfast News
Bel-Air wildfire joins the siege across Southern California
House OKs GOP bill expanding gun owners’ rights
America’s homeless population rises for first time in years
Ransomware slows North Carolina county government to a crawl
Doctors find brain abnormalities in victims of Cuba mystery
OAS may request new Honduras election to correct ‘irregularities’
Russia’s Olympic ban strengthens Putin’s re-election hand
Irish town gets horny off of Viagra factory fumes
Hero cop who saved lives in Pulse nightclub massacre is losing his job and pension due to PTSD
Breakfast Blogs
Some of the Worst Stuff in Congress Happens Quietly Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltics
Three Things: Mit Handelsblatther Rayne, emptywheel
Happy Centenary of the Finnish Independence! Echisne, at her blog
Who do you trust on taxes? digby aka Haether Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Raising some boats and sinking others Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The British Nostalgia Complex Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Time to Believe Melissa Byrnes, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in Republican Detachment Disorder: Let Our Skeevy Past Be Stricken from Every Book and Tablet driftglass, at his blog
YOU SAY “CYNICAL OUTRAGE GENERATION MACHINE” AS IF THAT’S A BAD THING! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The Strange Fight Over Who Should Take John Conyers Spot Atop The Judiciary Committee Mike Masnick, Techdirt