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) 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
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Imperial rule ends in China; Achille Lauro hijackers forced to land; Movie legend Orson Welles dies; Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi born; Actor Christopher Reeve dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Breakfast News
Michigan to charge top medical official in Flint water deaths
EPA chief to sign rule on Clean Power Plan exit on Tuesday
California governor signs drug pricing transparency law
‘Hell to pay’ over water, food deliveries, Puerto Rico governor warns
Wildfires prompt evacuations in California’s wine country
We’re all human: ‘Nudge’ theorist Thaler wins economics Nobel
France’s CGT calls another strike against labor reform, others refuse
European courts could decide trade disputes during transition period: PM May
Turkey urges U.S. to review visa suspension as lira, stocks tumble
‘Ball in your court:’ Britain, EU clash over next Brexit move
Breakfast Blogs
On Top of Everything Else, the Treasury Is Blowing Up Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Senator Feinstein Confirms the Public Steele Dossier Is Not the Whole Thing emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
I’m sure this won’t give you nightmares or anything digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Scores of dead and wounded white people Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Born That Way Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Pandering to Conservatives Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I CAN THINK OF ANOTHER PLACE WHERE MANY REPORTERS KNEW ABOUT HARASSMENT AND SAID NOTHING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog