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
Mohandes Gandhi born; President Woodrow Wilson suffers stroke; Thurgood Marshall sworn in as US Supreme Court justice; Rock Hudson dies; Peanuts comic strip debut.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Breakfast News
In Puerto Rico, acute shortages plunge the masses into survival struggle
Hurricane Maria power outage puts old, vulnerable at risk in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico governor says relief arriving to storm-ravaged rural areas
Felons and domestic abusers in Wisconsin would be allowed to own antique guns under bill
Supreme Court back to work with major employment dispute
Catalan leader opens door to secession from Spain after vote
Canadian Sikh politician is new leader of federal New Democrat Party
At least eight dead amid Cameroon Anglophone protests
Port in Libya’s Benghazi reopens after three-year closure due to clashes
First “I do” as same-sex marriage comes to Germany
Breakfast Blogs
I Hear Griftopia Is Nice This Time of Year Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why Did Google Miss a Lot of Users Affected by FISA? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 1 Ed Walker, emptywheel
The Trump Trash Talking of Puerto Rico bmaz, emptywheel
So now the hurricane victims are all “ingrates” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Playing the percentages again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The plutocratic logic of Hefner apologists DJW, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The People’s Front of Republicanism driftglass, at his blog
THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF SAN JUAN’S MAYOR BEGINS Steve M., No More Mister Nice blog