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
Pope John Paul II Dies at 84; President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany; Juan Ponce de Leon lands in Florida; Falkland Islands seized from Britain; Hans Christian Andersen Born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
Breakfast News
Trump suffers setbacks in environmental rulings in Alaska
Trump’s threat to close border stirs fears of economic harm
LA to tap tech to wipe out up to 50,000 old pot convictions
Tennessee bill would allow adoption groups to turn away gays
NY state poised to raise smoking age from 18 to 21
Bill would let authorities take guns if person deemed threat
Texas removing hemp from controlled substance list
Algeria’s leader, ceding to protests, will quit by April 28
Ukrainian comedian a step closer to taking office for real
Venezuelan judge moves to strip opposition leader’s immunity
Erdogan faces serious setbacks in Turkish local elections
New Zealand initiates bill to ban guns used in mosque attack
China to regulate all fentanyl drugs as controlled substance
UK Parliament rejects alternatives to May’s Brexit deal
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Choice of Rick Scott to Build a Republican Healthcare Plan Shows the Henhouse Is Full of Foxes Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Oleg Deripaska’s Co-Columnist Admits Oleg Deripaska May Have Fed Christopher Steele Disinformation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump wrote “Bring Back The Death Penalty!” And he has. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Risky in pink Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Barr May Interpret What It Means to Withhold “Grand Jury Information” Barbara McQuade, Just Security
“I wondered aloud if I would be able to find a decent meal in what was surely a culinary heart of darkness.” Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Remember When President Barack Obama Said This? driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Alexandria Duet Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE EMPEROR’S NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog