The Breakfast Club (Walk Right In)

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.

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This Day in History

Iconic photo captured in Iwo Jima; Persian Gulf War begins in Kuwait; Scottish scientists clone first mammal; Stan Laurel dies; Carlos Santana wins 8 Grammy awards.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the stranger is no longer the potential criminal and the certain inferior!

W. E. B. Du Bois

Breakfast News

Mexico will not accept Trump’s immigration plans, says foreign minister

Trump administration revokes transgender students’ bathroom protections DoJ moves to prevent CIA official from detailing role in Bush-era torture

Police make arrests at Standing Rock in push to evict remaining activists

US has provided $315m in financing to supplier of mines accused of slave labor

Thrilling discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby star

Paris and Los Angeles tussle for 2024 Olympics after Budapest’s withdrawal

Breakfast Blogs

Good God, We’re Ruled by a Giant Toddler Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Susan Collins Implies She Could Be a Swing Vote in SSCI’s Investigation of the Russian Hack emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

To the right of Scalia digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Freistaat Trump? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

America’s Forgotten War Apparently driftglass, at his blog

The Further Adventures of Paul Ryan, Serious Policy Wonk Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

It’s not the same Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog