The Breakfast Club (We Rise)

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

The 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center; President Ronald Reagan rebuked over Iran-Contra; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba; Singers Fats Domino and Johnny Cash born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou

Breakfast News

Students return to Florida school where 17 were killed

Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own

5 dead after tornado, flooding from central US storms

Beech booming as climate changes, and that’s bad for forests

Iran says Damascus suburbs assault to continue as fighting rages

Merkel’s CDU votes on German coalition deal after new cabinet picks

North Korean envoy, in South, opens door to US talks

China paves way for Xi Jinping to remain leader for years

Breakfast Blogs

Mueller Is Steadily Working His Way Up the Food Chain Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Schiff Memo Reveals that Mifsud Specifically Told Papadopoulos Russia Would Release Hillary Emails to Help Trump Campaign emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

February 25, 1968 digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Step by step…inch by inch… Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Gun Rights and Civil Rights, The Hidden History Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Heckuva Job Trumpy Erik Lommis, Lawyers Guns and Money

How To Cut Off The Slaughter Lobby’s Money Stream Spocko, Crooks and Liars

Andrew Sullivan Fights For His Seat On The Lifeboat driftglass, at his blog

NO TRUE GUN OWNER: THE MYTH OF A BENIGN GUN CULTURE THAT HAS NO TIES TO KILLERS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog<