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
William Shakespeare born, dies 52 years later on same day; MLK Jr. assassinator James Earl Ray dies at age 70; Cesar Chavez dies at age 66; Hank Aaron begins climb to throne home run king.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Breakfast News
Syracuse fraternity permanently expelled over racist video
Romney must compete in primary for Senate seat
Beyond cookies: Thousands of girls are becoming Cub Scouts
Police try to unlock phone with dead man’s finger in Florida
SKorea halts propaganda broadcasts before summit with North
Nicaragua’s president cancels social security overhaul
Merkel to Israel TV: Imperfect Iran deal better than no deal
Turkish lawmakers switch parties in challenge to Erdogan
Breakfast Blogs
Even for an American Private Prison, This Is Barbaric Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
What Happened To The Cultural Elites: Entertainment Workers Ed Walker, emptywheel
Weekend Reading, 4/20/18: Black Maternal And Infant Deaths, Capt. Tammie Jo Shults And Richard Cohen on Reverse Discrimination Echidne, at her blog
Dispatch from reality: no things are not normal digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Money vs. boots Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The DNC v. Russia: The Question of Foreign Sovereign Immunity Ingrid Wuerth, Lawfare
Today In American Ethnic Cleansing Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Organize the Campaign Staffs Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Gradually a Shot Rang Out driftglass, at his blog
WHO NEEDS THE ALT-RIGHT WHEN THERE’S ORDINARY AMERICAN RACISM? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog