The Breakfast Club (Take It To The Limits)

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

The Alamo falls; The Dred Scott decision brings America closer to Civil War; Renaissance artist Michelangelo born; Walter Cronkite leaves ‘The CBS Evening News’; Ed McMahon and Rob Reiner born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

Breakfast News

North Korea fires four missiles into Sea of Japan

Iraqi forces push into deadliest areas of Mosul as civilian exodus accelerates

Attorneys file petition to release Afghan family detained by Ice at LA airport

Belgium and Greece among countries failing women on rape laws, says study

Erdoğan accuses Germany of ‘Nazi practices’ over blocked political rallies

Bird flu outbreak at Tennessee poultry farm confirmed after chicken deaths

Iditarod route changed due to lack of snow

Breakfast Blogs

How Trump’s Tantrum May Lead Trump Transition Official Devin Nunes to Delegitimize the Investigation emptywheel aka March Wheeler, emptywheel

Dispatch from a Wisconsin Town Hall with an Old School Republican Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Women’s Free Stuff in the ACA. Is It Unfair? Echidne, at her blog

“Taking the shackles off” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Sunday Morning Party Line driftglass, at his blog

“I Said All Along One Candidate Was A Liar and a Crook!” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Muslim Ban 2 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

TRUMP’S BASE IS PROBABLY MORE ENERGIZED BY THE WIRETAP ALLEGATIONS THAN BY HIS SPEECH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog