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
Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurs; Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison; Musician Johann Bach born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Breakfast News
Needs go unmet 6 months after Maria hit Puerto Rico
ACLU, community groups get voice in Chicago police reforms
Missouri inmate gets 2nd stay of execution from high court
Judge says groups can sue to keep Arctic, Atlantic drill ban
Wreckage of ship blown apart in WWII found, offering closure
Powerful storm threatens to swamp hard-hit California towns
Storms strike college, leave trail of damage across South
Ex-French president Sarkozy held on Gadhafi financing claims
Clandestine videos roil Peru ahead of impeachment vote
Chinese dissident, official trade barbs at UN rights body
Northern Brazil overwhelmed by desperate, hungry Venezuelans
World’s last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies
Drumroll please: It’s Sir Ringo as ex-Beatle knighted
Breakfast Blogs
Nothing to See Here, Just Freedom Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump’s Legal Team: “If the Law and the Facts Are Against You, Pound the Table and Yell Like Hell” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered and More to Come Rayne, emptywheel
The Godbotherers Who Love Trump Echidne, at her blog
What in the hell is the CIA director’s wife doing? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
One Million Dead tristero, Hullabaloo
Film at six Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Just What Our Intellectual Discourse Needed: A More Masculinist, Authoritarian, and Vastly More Pretentious Tony Robbins Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Alinsky Is Good Now Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I AM SHOCKED — SHOCKED! — TO FIND THAT DATA MINING IS GOING ON HERE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
DOJ Readying Warrants In Carter Page Investigation For Public Release Tim Cushing, Techdirt