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 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calls on Muslims to kill author Salman Rushdie; Slobodan Milosevic begins his defense against war crimes charges; Dolly the cloned sheep dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Breakfast News
In win for Amazon, judge freezes work on Pentagon contract
Attorney general says Oklahoma to resume executions
Newspaper chain McClatchy files for bankruptcy protection
New Mexico bid for recreational marijuana is all but doomed
By 2060, a quarter of U.S. residents will be over age 65
Torrential rains leave swollen rivers, downed trees in South
Last month was hottest January on record, US scientists say
San Diego aquarium breeds rare weedy sea dragon in captivity
Virus cases surge after China revises way count is tallied
Sudan seeks to end terror designation in USS Cole settlement
Ideas for amending Russian Constitution aired for Putin
UK Treasury chief quits as Johnson shakes up Cabinet
With government paralyzed, rising crime terrifies Haitians
German president marks Dresden bombing, warns of rising hate
Amsterdam bans tour groups from sex workers’ windows
Breakfast Blogs
North Dakota Attacked Native Voting Rights By Weaponizing People’s Poverty Against Them Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
ABC Conducts an “Exclusive” “Interview” about Sentencing Guidelines without Asking about Sentencing Guidelines emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts, 2/13/20. Vanishing Tomboys, Feminist Porn?, UK Male And Female Homicide Rates, And Trump Obstructing Justice Echidne, at her blog
Teaching the children well digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
A Nice Start tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Drowning Justice in the lake Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Would you please stop tweeting about the coverup I’m carrying out in broad daylight? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bloomberg is terrible Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: We Are Funding For New Hampshire Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
BLOOMBERG SHOULDN’T BE NOMINATED, BUT IF HE IS, HE CAN EXPLOIT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S BIGGEST WEAKNESS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Marie Yovanovitch Will Stick Her Sensible Wedge Pump Right Up Mike Pompeo’s Craven A** Liz Dye, Wonkette
Hippie Enviros And Big Timber Reached A Deal, And Oregon GOP Is Losing Its Miiiiiiind Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Trump’s Reichstag Fire Is Here, And It’s Going To Burn For The Next Nine Months Evan Hurst, Wonkette
‘OK, Boomer’ Is Not The N-Word. The N-Word Is The N-Word. Stephen Robinson, Wonkette