The Breakfast Club (Creation)

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 1993 bombing of New York’s World Trade Center; President Ronald Reagan rebuked over Iran-Contra; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte escapes exile on Elba; Singers Fats Domino and Johnny Cash born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin

Breakfast News

Worker visas in doubt as Trump immigration crackdown widens

High-stakes trial starts in Roundup weed killer cancer claim

Technology helps San Francisco erase 8,000 pot convictions

New hearing rejected for pipeline to cross Appalachian Trail

Listeria prompts recall for green beans, butternut squash

Judge OKs settlement from nation’s largest natural gas leak

High winds cut power, inundate Lake Erie shoreline with ice

February rainfall breaks Tennessee River Valley records

American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event

Iran’s foreign minister resigns as his nuclear deal teeters

Nigerian president takes early lead amid vote-rigging charge

UK makes move to ban membership in Hezbollah

Main UK opposition party takes step to back new Brexit vote

Syria’s Assad visits Iran in rare trip abroad

Breakfast Blogs

At Some Point, a Gerrymandered Legislature Can’t Make Laws Legitimately Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Manafort’s Bid for a Pardon: No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion No Collusion emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Trump’s pathetic “emoluments” contributions digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Room 101 Tom Sullivan, Hulabaloo

Hoda Muthana and Shamima Begum: Citizenship and Expatriation in the U.S. and U.K. Jonathan Shaub, Lawfare

NDAs And the Sexual Predator in Chief Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

John Cornyn is a Fascist Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Who Killed Owen Taylor? A True Detective Season Three Explainer driftglass, at his blog

New York Note Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

I DON’T BELIEVE MURKOWSKI AND COLLINS WILL REALLY VOTE AGAINST THE TRUMP EMERGENCY DECLARATION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog