The Breakfast Club (Cast A Shadow)

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.

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This Day in History

James Marshall finds a gold nugget; Winston Churchill dies; Ted Bundy is executed; Thurgood Marshall dies; John Belushi born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018

Breakfast News

Governor backs court’s move to strike down congressional map

CFPB drops probe into lender that gave to Mulvaney’s campaigns

Virginia Senate passes bill to allow guns in churches

2 dead, 17 injured in Kentucky school shooting; suspect held

Gay couple sues US for denying citizenship to 1 twin son

Hope, fear as Puerto Rico moves to privatize power company

Safe-injection sites to fight opioid overdose deaths get green light from Philadelphia officials

Court challenge seeks to block vast California pot farms

Report: Gulf Coast wreck could be last US slave ship

Turkey urged to show restraint in assault on Syrian Kurds

Philippine volcano spreads lava almost 2 miles from crater

Skepticism, worry amid preparation for Rohingya repatriation

Neo-Nazis in Poland arrested after Hitler birthday clip

150 evacuated in Italy after avalanche, snow blankets Alps

Heavy Snow Buries Davos, Switzerland, During Meeting of World Leaders

Camel beauty pageant kicks out 12 animals for Botox

Cats are left- and right-pawed like humans

Breakfast Blogs

Mueller Is Asking Questions. He Knows the Answers. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

On the Sessions and Trump Interviews: It’s Not Just Obstruction of Justice emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Meet Jordan Peterson. Or On the Channel 4 Interview About Pay Gap. Echidne, at her blog

In dreams: Farewell Ursula K. Le Guin Dennis Hartley, Hullabaloo

Why Lindsey’s gambit didn’t work digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

“What — Me Angry?” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Least Self-Aware Man in the World Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Do strawmen dream of rhetorical sheep? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

IF TRUMP USED CAMPAIGN FUNDS TO PAY OFF STORMY DANIELS, I BET DEPLORABLE CONTRIBUTORS WON’T CARE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Montana Says It Won’t Do Business With Net Neutrality Violating ISPs Karl Bode, Techdirt