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
‘War of the Worlds’ spooks Americans on Halloween Eve; A deadly mudslide hits Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch; Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’; Comedian Steve Allen dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Breakfast News
Special counsel’s Russia probe entering new phase with first charges
Puerto Rico’s power authority ends $300M Whitefish contract amid mounting scrutiny
Tennessee police on high alert but white nationalist rallies pass quietly
Mississippi students allowed to read To Kill a Mockingbird – with a parent’s note
Illinois judge, 65, shocked to learn she’s on ‘known terrorist list’
Cuba to make it easier for Cuban Americans to visit
Hundreds of thousands march for unified Spain, poll shows depths of division
Protesters storm Kurdistan parliament after Barzani announces resignation
Bahrain foreign minister calls for freezing Qatar out of GCC
Mysterious object flying through space could be first visitor from another solar system
Stephen Hawking’s PhD thesis was so popular it broke Cambridge University’s website
Breakfast Blogs
The Mueller Charges Remind Us That His Investigation Is About Criminality Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Boente Resignation and the Reported Charge[s]/Indictment[s] The Boente Resignation and the Reported Charge[s]/Indictment[s] emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Uranium One 101 digby aka Heather Digby Prton, Hullabaloo
Monday! Monday! Monday! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Pretending Your Publication Doesn’t Have A Race Problem Christa Blackmon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down Starring Matthew Dowd driftglass, at his blog
HAVE A NICE CRACK-UP, REPUBLICANS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog