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.
This Day in History
Tet Offensive begins: Nazi leader Adolf Hitler becomes Germany’s chancellor; Franklin D. Roosevelt is born; Hindu extremist assassinates Mahatma Gandhi; as “Bloody Sunday” begins; “The Lone Ranger” airs
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
Breakfast News
Judge orders release of activist awaiting deportation
Court: Immigrant children don’t have right to free lawyer
Lawsuit seeks to stop big California homeless camp shutdown
Washington governor rejects permit for oil-by-rail terminal
West Virginia Pulitzer-winning paper warns of layoffs, sale
Many Puerto Ricans adrift in US hotels after Hurricane Maria
Cleveland Indians dropping Chief Wahoo logo from uniforms
Turning to beet juice and beer to address road salt danger
President says Poland did not take part in the Holocaust
Seoul: North Korea cancels pre-Olympic joint cultural event
German automakers face heat over tests on monkeys, humans
Romania approves first female premier amid protests
Syria violence overshadows Russia-hosted talks
Floods peak in Paris as France sees worst rains in 50 years
US conservationist, Chile sign creation of national parks
South African charity to stockpile water for dry Cape Town
Spain: Dozens of children among 329 migrants rescued at sea
Breakfast Blogs
North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Is a Lesson to the Rest of the Nation Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Carter Page Did Not Need to be a Spy to be Targeted Under FISA emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Whew digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
His own worst enemy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Dude, At Least the Trump Presidency is an Ethos dnexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Hold My Beer, Ross” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Both Sides Don’t driftglass, at his blog
ANYONE REMEMBER THE OBAMACARE SONG AT THE COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Fitness Tracker Data Exposes Military Operations, Shows What Damage That Can Be Done With ‘Just Metadata’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt
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