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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of murder at his criminal trial; St. Francis of Assisi dies; Germany reunifies; Baseball’s ‘shot heard ’round the world’; ‘Captain Kangaroo’ and ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ hit TV.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’
Breakfast News
As Trump set to visit Puerto Rico, 95 percent lack power
Supreme Court divided over curbing workers’ class-action suits
Supreme Court mulls parameters for deporting immigrant felons
Key employment dispute leaves Supreme Court divided
U.S. weighs $13 billion in disaster aid for Puerto Rico, others: officials
Kansas still underfunds schools: state supreme court
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny jailed for third time this year
Catalan referendum: preliminary results show 90% in favour of independence
Coca-Cola increased its production of plastic bottles by a billion last year, says Greenpeace
Nobel prize for medicine awarded for insights into internal biological clock
Breakfast Blogs
Republicans Were So Busy Trying to Repeal Obamacare, They Ran Out the Clock on 9 Million Kids Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Putin Discovers He Needs to Indict Another Russian Hacker emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Three Things: Was Slow Response to Hurricane Maria Deliberate? Rayne, emptywheel
In Praise of Day Two Quinn Norton, emptywheel
This gun fetish is killing us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Of the 515 injured in Vegas, how many have health insurance? Spocko, Hullabaloo
A palate cleanser Tom Sullivan, Hullabalooo
The Next Steps in Republicans Facilitating Your Death by Gun Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Try a Time Machine driftglass, at his blog
I’M NOT GOING TO CRITICIZE CALEB KEETER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Appeals Court Tells Seattle Cops New Use Of Force Policy Doesn’t Violate Their 2nd Amendment Rights Tim Cushing, Techdirt