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
Bastille prison stormed during the French Revolution; Outlaw ‘Billy the Kid’ gunned down; Richard Speck murders student nurses in Chicago; Mariner 4 probe flies by Mars; Folk singer Woody Guthrie born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
Breakfast News
Political prisoner, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at age 61
House panel rejects corruption claim, boosting Brazil leader
Qatar crisis grinds on as top US diplomat leaves the Gulf
Nemtsov killer sentenced to 20 years in prison in Russia
Italian wildfires kill 2 homeowners, force tourists to flee
French court rejects ban on magazine for Nice attack photos
Afghan girls will be allowed into US for robotics contest
UN Assembly backs $40.5 million for Haiti cholera victims
Judge hears arguments in challenge to Arkansas abortion laws
‘Scopes monkey trial’ town erects evolution figure’s statue
Desperate polar bears may attack more people as Arctic ice melts
Horse slaughter may become legal in US again International Business Times
In first ever sighting, wild lion adopts leopard cub
Radio Flyer rolls into Chicago to celebrate 100 years
Breakfast Blogs
Don’t F*ck with the Water Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
What to Know About Article 88 Should Trump Begin to Melt Down Robert Bateman, Esquire Politics
Kushner’s Digital Armies and Facebook’s .1% emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Candice E. Jackson. A Fox To Guard The Chicken Coop? Echidne, at her blog
Ayeyayay, this guy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Unpopular revolt Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The New Senate Bill Is Still Unimaginably Horrible Legislation Scott Lemmieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Both Siderist’s Lament, Ctd. driftglass, at his blog
CAN YOU SAY YOU’RE 100% CERTAIN THAT KID ROCK WOULD LOSE A SENATE RACE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Government Lawyers Hoping To Keep Leaker’s Lawyers From Talking About Leaked Documents Tim Cushing, Techdirt