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 10:30am (ET) 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
Richard Nixon gives his ‘Checkers’ speech; Rome’s Augustus Caesar born; Lewis and Clark finish trek to America’s West; Psychologist Sigmund Freud dies; Musicians Ray Charles and Bruce Springsteen born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Breakfast News
Puerto Rico evacuates 70,000 after dam fails in Hurricane Maria’s wake
Germany faces first far-right party in parliament since second world war
New Zealand election: voting begins as Ardern and English fight closest battle in years
Macron takes a page from Trump to change France’s labour laws
Japan braces as North Korea threatens hydrogen bomb test in Pacific
Bali on high alert after tremors around Mount Agung volcano
Documents that Kim Philby passed to USSR on display for first time
Trump administration drops guidance on college sex-crime probes
Hurricane-ravaged U.S. cities hit by rising cleanup costs
Nasa facility honors African American woman who plotted key space missions
Breakfast Blogs
So I Called Trump a Dotard First. I Won’t Be Suing Kim Jong-un. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
A Better Example of Article III FISA Oversight: Reaz Qadir Khan emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Today’s Short Posts: Should Rick Santorum Be Silent? Jimmy Kimmel? And Betsy deVos Speaks. Echidne, at her blog
I’ve got yer American Carnage for ya right here digby aka Heather Digby Parton , Hullabaloo
If anyone knows charters, it’s Betsy DeVos Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Did Sanders Provide a Blueprint for Progressive Foreign Policy? DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
ERICK ERICKSON SAYS THAT IF A TRUMP CABINET MEMBER IS KILLED, IT’S JIMMY KIMMEL’S FAULT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Turkish President Claims Jailed Journalists Are Actually Terrorists Tim Cushing, Techdirt