The Breakfast Club (Going Pro)

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 Boston Massacre; Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech; The Soviet Union’s dictator Josef Stalin dies; Comedian John Belushi found dead; Country singer Patsy Cline killed in a plane crash.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

Breakfast News

After Parkland, even idle school threats get tough response

1 million without power as storm cleanup proceeds

Mushers hit the snowy trail as Iditarod kicks off in Alaska

1906 film of San Francisco after quake found at flea market

Election projections in Italy point to hung Parliament

Merkel in line for a fourth term after months of uncertainty

US, Afghan leaders agree on peace push, Taliban don’t

Syrian troops advance in rebel-held region near capital

Serbia’s ruling populists sweep election in capital Belgrade

Breakfast Blogs

I Need a Shower After Reading This Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Reality Winner Seeks to Use Trump’s Denials of Russian Hacking in Her Defense emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

This is very, very bad digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Florida Senators Won’t Ban AR-15’s. Now what Emma, Cameron and David? Spocko, Hullabaloo

Corporations Shouldn’t Be Political Except When They Should Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

David Brooks: The Eternal Sunshine of the Conservative Mind driftglass, at his blog

TRUMP WON’T QUIT — HE’LL JUST GO ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL FOR HIMSELF TWO YEARS EARLY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog