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
Journalist Edward R. Murrow takes on Senator Joe McCarthy’s anti communist campaign; Commedian George Burns dies in 1996.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.
Breakfast News
Mississippi close to having most-restrictive abortion law
Florida governor won’t say whether he will sign gun bill
Trump plan ends research on uranium mining near Grand Canyon
1 of world’s most destructive insects found at DC airports
Brown University cancels Rosa Parks house display in dispute
California salmon will have places to chill with dam removal
Women strike, protest as the world marks Int’l Women’s Day
11 nations sign Pacific trade pact as Trump plans US tariffs
Syria aid convoy on hold, top UN official appeals for calm
UK trade minister slams talk of Brexit punishment by EU
EU’s Tusk: No Brexit progress without Irish border solution
Breakfast Blogs
Sinclair Broadcast Group Should Be Broken Into a Thousand Pieces Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Oleg Deripaska Gets Ahead of His Own Fusion Dossier (and Manafort Prosecution?) Disclosures emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Some Fun On The International Woman’s Day Echidne, at her blog
Mainstreaming the alt-right, Part 765 digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Campus PC and Free Speech Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A Wrinkle in Crime Vacuumslayer. Lawyers, Guns and Money
TRUMP: THE POWER OF POSITIVE DELUSION? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Nevada Supreme Court Overturns Lower Court’s Abysmal Ruling On Las Vegas Shooting Coroner’s Reports Tim Cushing, Techdirt