The Breakfast Club (Thunderstruck)

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 10:30am (ET) 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

Start of the Berlin blockade during the early Cold War; Boxing champ Jack Dempsey born; Comedian and actor Jackie Gleason of ‘The Honeymooners’ fame dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Norman Cousins

Breakfast News

Qatar given 10 days to meet 13 sweeping demands by Saudi Arabia

Brexit talks ‘will not consume EU’, Angela Merkel warns Britain

London council evacuates residents amid fire safety concerns

EU expats condemn Theresa May’s ‘pathetic’ offer on Brexit rights

Paris agreement’s 1.5C target ‘only way’ to save coral reefs, Unesco says

Senators ask military to clarify US role in Yemen torture

ACLU Sues D.C. Police Over Journalist’s Inauguration Arrest

Supreme Court limits rights of property owners

Record verdict: 7,000 Kansas farmers win $217 million in GMO corn lawsuit against Syngenta

Work to move giant sequoia draws curious Idaho onlookers

Breakfast Blogs

This, Right Here. This Is Where Obama Choked. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Compartments in WaPo’s Russian Hack Magnum Opus emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel

Who are the terrorists? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Auto-aurotic fixation Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Does Rep. Collins Have Insurance For A Gun Accident? Spocko, Crooks and Liars

The United States, Russia, and the 2016 Election dnexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money

I Divorce You, Dumb Wapo Opinion-Man! vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

IF ONLY WE HAD AN INSTITUTION THAT WOULD INFORM US ABOUT SUCH ALARMING DEVELOPMENTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Frontier Communications Caught (Again) Ripping Off West Virginia Taxpayers arl Bode, Techdirt