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
Krakatoa erupts in South Pacific; President Lyndon Johnson and Mother Teresa born; America’s first successful oil well; Britain’s Lord Louis Mountbatten killed; Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Global warming creates volatility. I feel it when I’m flying. The storms are more volatile. We are paying the price in more hurricanes and tornadoes.
Breakfast News
Storm Harvey threatens Texas with ‘catastrophic’ floods, one dead
U.S. towns that want to shed Confederate symbols hit bureaucratic roadblocks
Protesters turn out in San Francisco despite canceled rally
Arkansas may bar dicamba herbicide use after April 15
UK opposition Labour to offer alternative soft Brexit in policy shift
Defiant Merkel takes on protestors at rowdy campaign rally
Venezuelan army, civil militias hold exercises after Trump threat
Islamic State stronghold Tal Afar about to fall, says Iraqi military
In Japan, robot-for-hire programed to perform Buddhist funeral rites
Breakfast Blogs
Trump May Pardon Joe Arpaio, But History Will Not Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Arpaio Pardon — Don’t Obsess about the Russian Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Some Thoughts On The Arpaio Pardon bmaz, emptywheel
The End of Liberal Identity Politics, Take Two Echidne, at her blog
Pompeo is the only man he wanted digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Why are we being polite? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
There’s GOLD in them there headboards! vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 135 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns, and Money
David Brooks Goes Back To Being Awful driftglass, at his blog
Weekend long read: Party of Lincoln Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog