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
U.S. forces capture Iraq’s ousted dictator Saddam Hussein; Authorities in communist Poland impose martial law; Union forces suffer defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia; Actor Dick Van Dyke is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Breakfast News
States cite climate worries in push to stop US coal sales
Florida school massacre panel recommends arming teachers
Sting uses fake Amazon boxes, GPS to catch would-be thieves
Insurance claims at $9 billion from California fires
Congress OKs bill to allow killing sea lions to help salmon
Washington state builds bridge to keep wildlife off highway
US urges UN to ban Iran nuclear missiles, keep arms embargo
Turkey vows to take on US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria
UN chief calls for compromise, sacrifice at climate talks
UK’s May wins no-confidence vote by MPs unhappy over Brexit
France’s Macron caught between protests, Strasbourg attack
Breakfast Blogs
Mike Flynn Doesn’t Want Drug-Testing to Interrupt His Return to Influence-Peddling emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Last Act of Paul Ryan’s Speakership Is a Suitable Disgrace Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
And Disappearing People, Though Only Statistically Speaking Echidne, at her blog
Trouble for Trump in the Big Apple digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A “natural instinct for science” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Why It Doesn’t Matter Whether It’d Be Constitutional to Indict Trump Marty Lederman, Just Security
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact Paul Campos, Lawyers Guns and Money
In Plain Sight Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If You Give a Never Trumper a Cookie… driftglass, at his blog
Trumpfendämmerung Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Impeach the Motherfucker (Part 2: Because It’s the Right Thing to Do) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
DOES TRUMP HAVE ONLY THREE MOTIVES? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog