The Breakfast Club (Fates)

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

President George W. Bush says ‘major combat operations’ over in Iraq; The Soviet Union shoots down a U-2 spy plane; Empire State Building dedicated; ‘Citizen Kane’ premieres; Singer Elvis Presley marries.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Joseph Heller

Breakfast News

NY lawmakers hatch plan to release Trump’s state taxes

Investments in Russia become focus in congressional race

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, 1st Cuban-American in Congress, to retire

12 killed by storms and flooding in South and Midwest

Yo ho ho! Pennsylvania aims to smash US embargo on Cuban rum

EU leaders agree on tough stance at special Brexit summit

Macron’s startup-style campaign upends French expectations

France on extra high alert for May Day as protesters march against Le Pen

‘Police won’t intervene’: Indian brides given wooden paddles to beat drunk husbands

Breakfast Blogs

It’s “beautiful chocolate cake” all the time now digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

What Fake French News Looks Like (to a British Consulting Company) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Trump’s Tax Reform Proposal: A Gift Not To His Voters But To Himself And His Rich Friends Echidne, at her blog

Safe Self-Abortion Will Force Opponents of Abortion Rights to be Consistent, and Not in a Good Way Scott Lemmieux, Lawyers, Guns acd Money

A FAILING PRESIDENT SWITCHES TO PSEUDO-EVENTS AND THE MEDIA SWOONS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog