The Breakfast Club (Friendship)

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 Beatles appear on TV’s ‘Ed Sullivan’; Sen. Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade; World War II’s Battle of Guadalcanal ends; Soviet leader Yuri Andropov dies; author Alice Walker born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Breakfast News

Scandals drive calls for top Virginia leadership to resign

Pennsylvania permits halted for Texas-based pipeline company

High court takes abortion vote, but key tests still to come

ICE agents in North Carolina arrest hundreds of immigrants

Going green: States would get free hand under pot bill

Snow storm wallops Seattle, people rescued in Sierra Nevada

Volunteers ready US aid set for Venezuela as Maduro digs in

Turkey, others to press for UN probe into Khashoggi killing

France keeps up pressure on Italy in historic EU dispute

Irish PM says he’s listening, but not negotiating on Brexit

Rare tiger kills prospective mate in London at first meeting

Breakfast Blogs

It’s Grifters, Bagmen, and Sleaze All the Way Down Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Roger Stone Adopts the Russian Troll Evidence-Phishing Technique emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

On Mean, Mean Political Bosses Echidne, at her blog

Republicans are reveling in the Virginia mess: But they’re not just hypocrites, they’re nihilists Amanda Marcotte, Salon

The definition of chutzpah digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

More “very fine people” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Department of Homeland Security Releases Its ‘Remain in Mexico’ Plan Andrew Patterson, Lawfare

Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America Frank Foer, The Atlantic

Make America Grift Again Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 409 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Brooks does a funny Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

NO ONE EVEN BOTHERS TO ASSUME THAT TRUMP WILL LIVE UP TO HIS OWN PRINCIPLES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog