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
Japan signs surrender, officially ending World War II; Union forces occupy Atlanta during the Civil War; A great fire ravages medieval London; Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh dies; Wreckage of the Titanic found.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
My favourite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.
Breakfast News
UN blames Syrian government siege strategy for expected mass evacuations
Venezuelans throng streets of Caracas seeking recall referendum for president
Earthquake of 7.1 magnitude hits east coast of New Zealand
Hurricane Hermine nears US as Florida braces for first direct hit in a decade
SpaceX: explosions rock launch site in Florida during testing
JetBlue flies wrong children to New York and Boston from Dominican Republic
Breakfast Blogs
Donald Trump’s Trip to Mexico Was an Embarrassment for Our Nation’s Media Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Normalizing banana republic politics digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Top Ten Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
In Attempted Hit Piece, NYT Makes Putin Hero of Defeating TPP emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, empptywheel
Bar The Doors. Let It Burn. driftglass, at his blog
Trump Eats All His Vegetables, Helps Himself To Extra Dessert Steve M.. No More Mister Nice Blog
Business Promoting Children Reading Sues Schools Over Trademarks For Encouraging Reading Timothy Geigner, Techdirt