The Breakfast Club (Sing Me A Song)

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

Alabama Gov. George Wallace shot on presidential campaign trail; Newly-founded Israel attacked by Arab neighbors; The U.S. Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil.; Country singer June Carter Cash dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

Stephen Colbert

Breakfast News

Bills would prohibit public schools from ‘meal shaming’

Eyes turn to Vermont as it sees success with health system

Lobster industry fears weaker shells, but evidence is mixed

Noisy Hawaiian volcano lava fissure prompts more evacuations

Yellowstone’s Steamboat Geyser erupts for 5th time this year

Mahathir bars predecessor from leaving Malaysia amid probe

Shiite cleric Sadr leads in Iraq’s initial election results

Isolated and threatened, Taiwan boosts domestic arms makers

Turkey’s Erdogan in UK, praises country as ‘real friend’

Saudi military says troops arrive in Yemen’s Socotra island

Militants attack Afghan government building, 10 dead

Breakfast Blogs

This Week in Toxic Caucasity Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Stefan Halper Wasn’t Downstream from the Steele Dossier emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Is Even One Mass Killing By Guns Proof That Gun Control Does Not Work? Day Two of Fund-Raising Week. Echidne, at her blog

Nobody cares about the criminal in the White House? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

We Must Be Doing Something Right… trisero, Hullabaloo

More than a horse race Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

What the Heck is Happening in Al-Nashiri?: The Ten-Layer Dip at the Heart of the Latest Guantánamo Mess Steve Vladeck, Just Security

“Stop Hitting Yourself”: An Argument That Oddly Does Not Improve With Endless Repetition Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Let the McCain Slobberfest Begin! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

All the Concern Trolling That’s Fit to Print Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog