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 10:30am (ET) 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
So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take – just that and no more.
Breakfast News
Obamacare repeal thwarted again as Mike Pence fails to reach deal
Environmentalists sue EPA for reversing Obama-era move to ban pesticide
Activists fight North Carolina law barring cities from raising minimum wage
Pepsi pulls Kendall Jenner ad ridiculed for co-opting resistance movements
Aung San Suu Kyi denies ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar
Spain accused of causing Gibraltar traffic jams amid Brexit tensions
Trump’s golf diplomacy lands in the rough ahead of Xi Jinping meeting
Tinned spaghetti pizza: New Zealand’s prime minister shocks with ‘monstrous’ recipe
New Brunswick becomes first Canada province to offer free abortion pill
Breakfast Blogs
Devin Nunes’ So-Called Bibi Netanyahu Precedent emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Patriarchy Strikes Back: The Trump Era Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s found the perfect villain to buck up the base digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Can’t “remove the ‘sex’ from ‘sexual orientation'” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Today In Both Sides Do It: American Gods driftglass, at his blog
An original contribution to the literature Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
ON BANNON’S LOSS OF HIS NSC GIG, THE OFFICIAL STORY NOW JIBES WITH GOSSIP FROM JANUARY (updated) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
DOJ Memo Shows NSA And White House Lawyers Mainly Unconcerned About Evidence Obligations In Criminal Trials Tim Cushing, Techdirt