The Breakfast Club (Tear Down Walls)

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

Alexander Graham Bell successfully tests telephone; James Earl Ray pleads guilty to MLK assassination; Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko dies; Scarsdale Diet author killed; Odd Couple opens on Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Breakfast News

Florida Gov. Rick Scott Signs Gun Bill That Arms Some School Staff Into Law

NRA Sues To Block Brand-New Gun Law In Florida

California Veterans Home On Lockdown Amid Hostage Situation

Detained immigrants separated from children in US sue Trump administration

Disneyland workers demonstrate at Walt Disney Co. meeting demanding ‘living wages’

‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli Gets 7 Years For Defrauding Investors

Trump’s Military Parade Planned For Veterans Day — Without Tanks

Let there be light, an hour longer into the evening sky

Florida weighs seceding from daylight saving time Miami Herald

Macron warns Trump all sides would lose in ‘trade war’

Aid delivered to Syria’s Ghouta amid renewed violence

Kenya president and opposition leader agree to unify country

Vote on Catalonia’s new president canceled to await EU court

Breakfast Blogs

Drill, Baby, Drill—in 2028? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Preferred Anti-Obama Russian Hack Story Remains Silent on Shadow Brokers emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Shorting the US-DPRK Meeting [UPDATED] Rayne, emptywheel

The Madman Summit Ryu Spaeth, New Republic

Friday Night Soother: Michelle Obama edition digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Florida Will Arm Teachers, Give Millions to Gun Makers & Allies, Won’t Ban Assault Weapons Spocko, Hullabaloo

Department of Peace Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Campus PC Is Out Of Control Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Eisenhower Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Tweet and Sour: March 9, 2018 Vaucuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

REMEMBER, TRUMP’S GOING TO MEET KIM JONG-UN AND LIKE HIM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Wikimedia’s Transparency Report: Guys, We’re A Wiki, Don’t Demand We Take Stuff Down Mike Masnick, Techdirt