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
First human heart transplant performed; Industrial accident kills thousands in Bhopal, India; Hundreds of students arrested at the University of California at Berkeley; “A Streetcar Named Desire” opens on Broadway; Snger Ozzy Osbourne is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Iceland’s Pirate party invited to form government hree months after the Olympics, Rio de Janeiro is broke Dachau concentration camp gate found two years after it was stolen US economy adds 178,000 new jobs making Fed rate hike likely Professor Watchlist website elicits both fear and ridicule in US universities Tennessee wildfire deaths climb to 13 as officials fend off criticism Worker killed, woman rescued in S.D. building collapse Washington Monument to stay closed until 2019 Mummified knees are Queen Nefertari’s, archaeologists conclude
Breakfast Blogs
Hot New Trend: Being Mad About Winning Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The James Mattis I Saw Behind Closed Doors Robert Bateman, Esquire Politics
MI AG Bill Schuette Is Always on the Wrong Side of History — So I Now Enthusiastically Back MI’s Recount emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Keith Ellison Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog
Trump’s pollster agrees it was the Comey effect
When I’m Wrong, Boy Am I Wrong driftglass, at his blog
Gender And the 2016 Elections. Part I: How Did Women And Men Say They Voted?Seth McFarlane Is Making Sense Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Today in Trump’s America Eric Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Senator Feinstein Asks President Obama To Declassify Senate’s CIA Torture Report Mike Masnick, Techdirt