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
Rutherford B. Hayes declared U.S. President after disputed election, Mikhail Gorbachev born, “King Kong” and “The Sound of Music” premiere in NYC.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.
Breakfast News
West Virginia Senate doesn’t vote on teacher pay raise
US companies taking stands, facing retribution over guns
US complying with Iran deal, judge says in Boeing ruling
Pro-gun Georgia lawmakers punish Delta for crossing the NRA
States seek to lure Delta as Georgia moves forward on threat
Court orders hearing on whether migrant teen wants abortion
Court overturns conviction in fatal school bathroom attack
Kentucky House votes to tax opioids to close budget gap
Nor’easter, life-threatening flooding to sweep East Coast
Putin shows new Russian nuclear weapons: ‘It isn’t a bluff’
UN official: Pauses in Syria suburb unilateral, ‘not enough’
South Korea’s Moon plans to send envoy to North Korea soon
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen charged over IS photos
Hack of German government network caused considerable damage
Armenia annuls normalization protocols with Turkey
Snow, high winds paralyze European airports, claim lives
After Olympics, South Korea mulls reviving bulldozed forest
Breakfast Blogs
Georgia’s On My Mind, for All the Wrong Reasons Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
NBC’s Broken Story about Mueller Charging the DNC Hackers emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Notes on Trumpian Motion Series Ed Walker, emptywheel
Short Posts 3/1/18: On Authoritarianism, Elections, Anti-Semitism, And Pay Differentials Between Men And Women Echidne, at her blog
Nunes: I know you are but what am I digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
There Is Nothing Remotely Funny About This Level Of Chaos tristero, Hullabaloo
While we’re watching the reality show Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Our Very Own Mandela Speaks Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Kerner Commission Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Everybody run! The orange angry peen’s grabbing guns! Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Beltway Council of Elite Both Siderists Is Now In Session driftglass, at his blog
BRET STEPHENS: TRUMP ISN’T A BOTH-SIDES PROBLEM, BUT HEY, YOU CAN’T BE TOO CAREFUL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog