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
Lindbergh baby kidnapped; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed caught in Pakistan; Bobby Sands begins hunger strike; JFK creates Peace Corps; Ron Howard born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Breakfast News
eacher barricades himself in class, fires gun; no one hurt
Retailers Dick’s and Walmart take harder line against guns
US Olympics chief resigns in wake of abuse scandal
West Virginia House approves raises to end teacher strike
Trump’s plan to ease climate change rules riles Californians
Agency weighs new rules for climbers’ poop on Alaska peak
Severe flood, wind warning issued for wide area of mid-South
Major winter storm could threaten burn areas of California
Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on
EU unveils Brexit draft, ramping up pressure on Britain
Australian amnesty nets 57,000 firearms and rocket launcher
Russia and Syria clash with US and West on Syria cease-fire
Report: Russian group hacked Germany’s government network
In patriarchal Japan, saying ‘Me Too’ can be risky for women
Philippines’ chief justice expects impeachment, taking leave
Afghan president calls on Taliban to join in peace talks
Russia reinstated into Olympic movement after doping scandal
Heavy winter weather batters UK, European mainland
Breakfast Blogs
It’s Time for ‘Law-Abiding Gun Owners’ to Earn Their Keep Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mueller Wants to Know How Far the Game of Email Telephone Got within the Trump Campaign emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What Lies Beneath the Gates Rayne, emptywheel
The Creation Of Fake News on the Parkland Slaughter Echidne, at her blog
Sex and Trump and Deripaska digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A Teacher With A Gun tristero, Hullabaloo
Revealed! The secret reason FedEx supports the slaught lobby Spocko, Hullabaloo
Democrats “cleaning up” in special elections Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Party of the Rule of Law Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
And then we gave school superintendents shoulder-fired stinger missiles Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
RESPECT FOR IDEOLOGICAL OPPONENTS IS A ONE-WAY STREET, PART MCMXVIII Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
AT&T Continues Its Bullshit Sales Pitch For A Fake Net Neutrality Law Karl Bode, Techdirt