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
Cuban exiles invade Bay of Pigs; Three astronauts of Apollo 13 land safely in pacific ocean; Benjamin Franklin dies at age 84; JP Morgan born in Connecticut; Ford rolls out the Mustang convertible.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Breakfast News
Starbucks to train workers on ‘unconscious bias,’ CEO says
Inmate: Bodies stacked in ‘macabre woodpile’ in prison riot
US says California rejects proposed border duties for troops
Arizona lawmaker expelled for harassment files $1.3M claim
Colorado teachers rally at Capitol for school funding
2018 Pulitzer winners and finalists in journalism and arts
Heavy rains ease, rescue efforts improve after Hawaii storm
Foraging bear spared by governor returns to town with 4 cubs
Chemical weapons team in Syria kept from alleged attack site
Terrorism accusation in Basque bar brawl reopens old wounds
Myanmar president grants amnesty to 8,500 prisoners
Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists hamper polio eradication
Archaeologists find silver treasure on German Baltic island
Breakfast Blogs
Louisiana’s Jury System Is a Monument to White Supremacy Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Earlier in the Week, Trump May Have Looked Presidential; on Friday, He Looked Like a Criminal Suspect emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He can’t even say it in private digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Comey: Trump’s “tremendous damage” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The “NY Bureau Made Comey Do It” Defense Is Exceptionally Weak Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Purge Charter School Advocates from the Democratic Party Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
IN TRUMP WORLD, IS THERE ANYONE LEFT UNCORRUPTED? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog