The Breakfast Club (The Madness Goes On)

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 United States enters World War One; First modern Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece; Harry Houdini is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It’s in our nature. We need to explore and find out what’s going on outside of who we are.

Billy Dee Williams

Breakfast News

AP: Women file to run for US House seats in record numbers

No end in sight to Oklahoma teachers strike

Puerto Rico to close 283 schools amid sharp enrollment drop

Mississippi court: Woman has parent rights in same-sex split

Oregon county, state clash over list of pot grow sites

ACLU asks judge to stop indefinite detention of immigrants

Medically assisted suicide becomes legal in Hawaii

Magnitude 5.3 quake strikes off Southern California coast

US approves $1.3 billion sale of artillery to Saudi Arabia

Arrest warrant issued for former Brazilian president ‘Lula’

Two populist parties vie to form Italy’s next government

New French unrest: Students, medics protest Macron reforms

Scientists harvest 1st vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse

Breakfast Blogs

The Problems in Michigan Go Well Beyond Flint Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Is Manafort Getting Close to Crying “Uncle”? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Good Morning America! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

It’s the Character That Matters, Jeffrey, Not the Writing Ability tristero, Hullabaloo

What Are The Costs and Consequences of Metal Detectors in Schools? Spocko, Hullabaloo

What Tuesday’s Post Story Reveals About the Absurd OLC Opinions Protecting a President From Indictment—and Mueller’s Reading of his Authority Bob Bauer, Lawfare

Out-Trumping Trump Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Ye Good Olde Days of CPAC drfitglass, at his blog

DEMOCRATIC ENTHUSIASM IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR JOHN McCAI– ER, DONALD TRUMP AND THE GOP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

More Colorado Towns Vote Down A Comcast State Law Hamstringing Broadband Competition Karl Bode, Techdirt