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
Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurs; Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison; Musician Johann Bach born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Respect for the rights of others means peace.
Breakfast News
Trump-Russia collusion is being investigated by FBI, Comey confirms
British banks handled vast sums of laundered Russian money
US forbids any device larger than cellphone on airlines from 13 countries
No African citizens granted visas for African trade summit in California
Record-breaking climate change pushes world into ‘uncharted territory’
Chinese maths textbooks to be translated for UK schools
Prehistoric climate change caused three mass extinction events in a row
Breakfast Blogs
Here’s What Happens in the Hands of an Unstable President* Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
FBI Delayed Telling the Gang of Four about Trump-Related Investigation Because It Is So Serious emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
About Draining That Swamp… Echidne, at her blog
Chris Hayes has an important book recommendation for Donald Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Compassion tristero, Hullabaloo
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-illustrated-manafort.html driftglass, at his blog
Kindly, Moderate, Nonpartisan Neil Gorsuch Scott Lemiuex, Lawyers, Guns and Money
DO THE DEPLORABLES KNOW THAT TRUMP IS INCAPABLE OF MAKING A DEAL? Steve M., Mo More Mister Nice Blog