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.
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.
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
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