The Breakfast Club (Fly Eagles Fly)

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

FDR plans to ‘pack’ the Supreme Court; Byron de la Beckwith convicted of killing civil rights leader Medgar Evers; The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premieres; William S. Burroughs and Hank Aaron born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’

William S. Burroughs

Breakfast News

US investigators say deadly Amtrak train crash preventable

Virginia museum to auction off letter by Alexander Hamilton

New report details misuse of antipsychotics in nursing homes

Billionaire takes a property tax stand over pooping geese

Eagles stun Patriots for first Super Bowl title

Evangelical, ruling party candidate eye runoff in Costa Rica

UK’s May under pressure as Conservatives at war over Brexit

Greeks rally in Athens to protest use of the name Macedonia

Ecuador referendum boosts president in battle with ex-mentor

Outside Yemen’s rebel-held capital, stalemated war rages on

Breakfast Blogs

Paul Ryan Has Been Upgraded to Biggest Fake in the Galaxy Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Asha Rangappa Demands Progressive Left Drop Bad Faith Beliefs in Op-Ed Riddled with Errors Demonstrating [FBI’s] Bad Faith emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Nunes Memo Echiden, at her blog

It’s white supremacy, people. It’s always been white supremacy. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Fundamental imbalance Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

It’s Easier For Politicians to be Corrupt These Days Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Today in the Sixth Extinction Scott Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

HOW MUCH DO ORDINARY AMERICANS CARE ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog