The Breakfast Club (Wave)

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.

Nine black students escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School; President Woodrow Wilson collapses; Author William Faulkner born; TV’s Barbara Walters and movie actor-producer Michael Douglas born.

So much of life is what you roll and where you land.

Mark Hamill

German election: Merkel wins fourth term but far-right AfD surges to third

Catalan campaigners hand out a million referendum ballots

New Zealand gets hung parliament as Jacinda Ardern falls short in election

Senate blow for Macron as he pushes through unpopular reforms

Nureyev ballet to open in Moscow, despite director’s house arrest

Crisis grows in Puerto Rico as towns without water, power and phone service

Protests could derail St. Louis’ bid for second Amazon hub: sources

Internet giants, once above the fray, on the defensive in Washington

U.S. to partially unveil key NAFTA proposal, talks seen dragging

We Could Learn a Lot From Mary Robinson Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Reclassification of Details on the 2011 Upstream Fight emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

When The President Hates A Race And Talks Racist Trash bmaz, emptywheel

Too Much Push For Gender Equality In Tech? The MRAs Speak. Echidne, at her blog

Oh heck, Puerto Rico is destroyed. The president can’t be bothered. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Built to #Resist Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

In an Alternate Universe in 1938… driftglass, at his blog

TRUMP’S SPORTS ATTACKS: RACIST, AND ALSO EASIER THAN HEALTHCARE AND NORTH KOREA Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog