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
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the ‘Pact of Steel’; Richard Nixon is the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union; Actor Laurence Olivier born; Johnny Carson hosts his last ‘Tonight Show.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
Breakfast News
Westinghouse to lock out 172 union members at New Hampshire plant
New York governor urges Trump to provide emergency funds for Penn Station
U.S. and Pacific Rim countries at odds in heated trade meeting
Italy and France call for more integrated EU action on migrants
New Zealand navy paid $700,000 to firm mired in ‘Fat Leonard’ sex and bribery scandal
Canada eases steps to open supervised drug injection sites amid opioid crisis
Mount Everest’s Hillary Step has collapsed, mountaineer confirms
‘Greatest Show on Earth’ takes its final bow after 146 years
Breakfast Blogs
Meanwhile, These Americans Are Being Poisoned Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Trump Effect Goes International digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Post-post-racial America Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
America’s Sad Clown of Centrism Doesn’t Know How Protests Work driftglass, at his blog
The Left Is Not Bernie Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“HE CHOKED!” REDUX Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog