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
Nathan Hale hanged in the American Revolution; Iraq invades Iran; President Gerald Ford faces a second assassination attempt in weeks; ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ hits Broadway; Songwriter Irving Berlin dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Breakfast News
Power crews scramble to Puerto Rico after Maria smashes its grid
Category 3 hurricane Maria could strengthen further: NHC
Navajo tribe says ready to sue Trump over changes to Utah monument
Illinois high court upholds former cop Peterson’s murder conviction
Nat Turner to be included on monument in Richmond
Facebook to overhaul political ads after threat of U.S. regulation
North Korea official says North may consider hydrogen bomb on Pacific Ocean: Yonhap
Venezuelans face growing queues to buy gasoline
Thousands rally in Philippines, warn of Duterte ‘dictatorship’
Breakfast Blogs
Scott Walker’s Wisconsin Foxconn Deal Is Even Shadier Than It Sounds Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
One Thing Not Mentioned in Mueller Requests from the White House: The Putin Phone Call emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump Administration on Sex Education: Girls, Keep Your Legs Crossed Echidne, at her blog
Everyone who knows anything about health care hates Graham Cassidy. Even the greedheads. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Rube Goldberg. Now with more rubes. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Cruel Radicalism of Cassidy-Graham Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Here Comes Mr. Wolf. Again. driftglass, at his blog
IF OBAMACARE FALLS AFTER THE SANDERS DEBATE, BERNIE WILL PROBABLY FALL WITH IT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Insanity: Theresa May Says Internet Companies Need To Remove ‘Extremist’ Content Within 2 Hours Mike Masnick, Techdirt