The Breakfast Club (Illegal To Deceive)

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

George Washington, America’s first president, is born; Iraqi insurgents destroy a Shiite shrine’s golden dome; the ‘Miracle on Ice’ during the 1980 Winter Olympics; Pop artist Andy Warhol dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman

Breakfast News

Students across US stage walkouts to protest gun violence

Court: Kansas can’t cut Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood

GOP leaders to seek halt to Pennsylvania congressional map

Supreme court narrows protections for whistleblowers

White nationalist is latest to sue over social media ban

Louisiana ordered to pay $154K over blocked marriage law

Crews used boats to help residents amid Midwest flooding

George Washington’s hair found tucked in old book in New York library

Supreme Court sides with Chicago museum in terror case

Hospitals overwhelmed by bombing blitz of Damascus suburbs

French government unveils tough measures for asylum-seekers

Bahrain sentences prominent activist to 5 years in prison

Boko Haram school attack: two girls killed and 76 rescued, official says

Thousands of Gazans rush to border as Egypt opens crossing

Pakistan court bans Nawaz Sharif from leading his party

Breakfast Blogs

Conspiracy Theories Have Made Us a Nation Within a Nation Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Jared’s Clearance and the Foreign Policy Version of Conspiracy to Defraud America emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Annie Scrap Your Gun Echidne, at her blog

The Trump-Russia conspiracy is a political problem digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Reading, writing and reloading Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Today In the Perfect American Meritocracy Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Should Clarence Thomas be impeached? Paul Campos, Lawyers. Guns and Money

HOW CAN THE GOP SURVIVE IF ITS OFFICIALS ARE HELD TO THESE IMPOSSIBLY HIGH STANDARDS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Trump, Nunes Accidentally Undo DOJ’s Efforts To Keep Surveillance Docs Under Wraps Tim Cuashing, Techdirt