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
Mongol ruler Genghis Khan dies; Women in U.S. clinch right to vote; James Meredith graduates from Univ. of Miss.; Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ published in U.S.; Actor-director Robert Redford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Happy 90th Birthday to former First Lady Rosalyn Carter.
Breakfast News
CIA torture: lawsuit settled against psychologists who designed techniques
KKK denied permit to burn cross atop symbolic mountain in Georgia
U.S. Navy to remove senior leaders of warship after deadly June crash
Students head back to unfunded schools in three U.S. states
U.S. rights group rethinks defending hate groups protesting with guns: WSJ
Venezuela’s new chief prosecutor vows to jail protest leaders
Canada sees ‘unsustainable’ spike in asylum seekers at U.S. border
Saudi Arabia installing cranes at Yemen ports to boost aid delivery
Adopted sons of American NHS surgeon granted visas after being denied UK entry
Scientists discover how magic mushrooms make psilocybin
Yellowstone supervolcano could power America’s future: scientists
Breakfast Blogs
Human Bowling Jacket Paul LePage Equates Confederate Statues with 9/11 Monuments Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Rohrabacher Can’t Remember Talking Assange Pardon with Trump But Is Sure Trump Wants Mind-Boggling Info from Julian Assange emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He holds his breath until he turns blue digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear Gail Collins tristero, Hullabaloo
Poor little fascist Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Abolish ICE: Workplace Safety Edition Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Wikileaks refused to publish massive hack of Russian government intel during 2016 US presidential campaign Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Calling a Fascist a Fascist Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bullshit Connor Speaks driftglass, at his blog
And Now, the Rest of the Story Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog
North Carolina Election Agencies First Learned They’d Been Hacked From Leaked Documents Published By The Intercept Tim Cushing, Techdirt