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The Breakfast Club (Spreading Light)

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

Iran-held hostages released, Charles Manson and followers convicted, Jackson settles molestation claims, Alicia Keys is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Don Wilson February 10, 1933 – January 22, 2022)

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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The Breakfast Club (Eye To Eye)

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

James Marshall finds a gold nugget; Winston Churchill dies; Ted Bundy is executed; Thurgood Marshall dies; John Belushi is born.

Breakfast Tunes

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

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The Whitewashing Of Martin Luther King – SOME MORE NEWS

Cody Johnston: Hi. In today’s episode, we discuss the literal only MLK quote that Republicans ever mention, how it’s a single sentence, why they love it so much, and what else he said that they’re avoiding.

Chapters:
0:00 – Introduction
1:25 – Conservatives Cynically Appropriate MLK To Push Their Right Wing Agenda
8:44 – Martin Luther King was, in fact, a Radical Leftist
19:43 – The Only Martin Luther King Quote Conservatives Like
24:20 – Why “Color Blindness” Is Just The Worst
31:38 – The Sick Irony Of Using MLK To Justify CRT Bans
38:35 – Neither Political Party Is Living Up To MLK’s Legacy
46:10 – MLK Criticized Capitalism And Was Anti-War
52:20 – MLK Warned Us About The White Liberal And The White Moderate

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The Breakfast Club (yogurt and cold cereal)

Welcome to The Breakfast Club!

AP’s Today in History for January 23rd

Accord reached in Vietnam; North Korea seizes the U.S.S. Pueblo; Roots airs; Bob Keeshan dies; Johnny Carson dies.

Breakfast Tune Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs-“Careless Love” Merlefest 2002

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Bank Blocks Donations Supporting Cuban Effort to Vaccinate World
“A European bank, established in the Netherlands, has decided to put the interests of the U.S. government above the lives of millions of people.”
KENNY STANCIL, Common Dreams

Progressive International recently asked for contributions so they can send a delegation to Havana next week to promote Cuba’s effort to vaccinate the world against Covid-19.

But in an apparent genuflection to the illegal U.S. embargo against the island, Dutch multinational bank ING has blocked all donations supporting the trip, the group said Tuesday.

“This is scandalous,” said Progressive International (PI) general coordinator David Adler.

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‘People’ Editor Sweating Bullets After Dedicating Next Issue To Alan Alda’s 86th Birthday

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The Breakfast Club (Passing Time)

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

U.S. Supreme Court legalizes abortion; Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty; Queen Victoria dies; “The Crucible” opens;”Laugh-In” premieres.

Breakfast Tunes

Michael Lee Aday aka Meat Loaf (September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022)

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We’re all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.

John Hurt

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The Breakfast Club (Unwilling To Learn)

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

France’s King Louis XVI executed; Vladimir Lenin dies; Alger Hiss found guilty of lying to grand jury; President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders; Concorde begins service.

Breakfast Tunes

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Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Franklin

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The Breakfast Club (Question)

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

Iran releases American hostages; Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy inaugurated as President.

Breakfast Tunes

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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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