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
The first American combat troops arrive in South Vietnam; The Russian Revolution begins; U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry makes his second landing in Japan; Baseball hall-of-famer Joe DiMaggio dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Breakfast News
Guidelines ask agents to target Spanish speakers at border
Uncounted Oregon votes expose election vulnerability
Bankrupt California utility wants to give $235M in bonuses
Border agency watchdog looking into caravan database
Monthly shots control HIV as well as pills in 2 big studies
A nanny state? Vermont town elects goat as honorary mayor
China’s Huawei sues to challenge US security law
Venezuela plunges into darkness amid widespread outage
UK insists Brexit talks will continue despite EU pessimism
Ukraine candidate vows ‘prison for life’ for military graft
Iran cleric linked to 1988 mass executions to lead judiciary
New Russian bill introduces punishment for insulting state
Chimps varied ‘culture’ matters for conservation, study says
Scientists discover different kind of killer whale off Chile
Breakfast Blogs
Ilhan Omar Prompted Democrats to Pass an Anti-Semitism Resolution That Puts Republicans in a Corner Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Administration Still Gaming Intelligence on Election Interference emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
In Southern Italy, The Far-Right League Celebrates The International Women’s Day… Echidne, at her blog
An otherwise blameless life digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Turn over any Trump rock Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Can Trump Organization Executives be Prosecuted for Money Laundering? Martin J. Sheil, Just Security
Man Puts Party, Country Above Vanity Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Marking the unmarked category Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Breaking! Ermahgerd! Fox News Lies! Like, All The Time! driftglass, at his blog
Less information for you and me, more information for whoever Jared writes to Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
What “Leaving Neverland” Unintentionally Reveals About Trump Voters The Rude Pundit, at his blog
HERE’S A CRAZY IDEA: MAYBE DEMOCRATS SHOULD POINT OUT THAT TRUMP ISN’T A VERY GOOD PRESIDENT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog