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
France’s King Louis XVI executed; Vladimir Lenin dies; Alger Hiss found guilty of lying to grand jury; President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam draft evaders; Concorde begins service.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.
Breakfast News
A new Supreme Court is poised to take a chunk out of MLK’s legacy
Paying for funerals impossible for many poor families
Americans take stock of shutdown’s everyday effects
Ice glazes over swath of US as wind chills fall below zero
Landmark Air Force chapel suffering from leaks, corrosion
Houston home to rival Martin Luther King Day parades
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China’s 2018 economic growth sinks to 3-decade low
Filipino Muslims vote in referendum on autonomous region
Oxfam says world wealth gap widening, advocates fairer taxes
May plans next move in Brexit fight as chances rise of delay
Boat with migrants rescued off Libya looks for port to dock
Breakfast Blogs
Congress Can’t Wait for Mueller. It’s Time to Start the Impeachment Process. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The House Intelligence Committee Can and Should Subpoena the 18-Minute Gap on the Trump Tower Deal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
When The Shoe Is On The Other Foot. The Social Media Response To The Covington Students Incident. Echidne, at her blog
When the “I” word gets serious digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The struggle never ended Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Two Years Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Mitch Switch Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WHAT YOU LEARN IN A CITY, IF YOU LET YOURSELF Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Kris Kristofferson And Gillette Should Team Up Against Toxic Masculinity Aliza Worthington, Crooks and Liars