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
Deadly fires scorch Chicago and other parts of Upper Midwest; Communist Poland bans labor groups; Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Don Larsen pitches ‘perfect’ World Series game.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Breakfast News
Weakening Nate brings rain, tornado warnings to U.S. South
South of New Orleans, Nate spares parish devastated by Hurricane Katrina
Columbus Day Protests: Calls for Indigenous Peoples’ Day across the US
NRA opposes outright U.S. ban on gun devices used by Las Vegas killer
Senator Corker says Trump risks putting U.S. on path to World War Three
Moscow warns it may restrict U.S. media in Russia
Weakened May to give bullish Brexit prognosis but say ball is in EU’s court
Merkel settles migrant row with allies to pursue coalition
Thousands protest in Barcelona against Catalan independence
Breakfast Blogs
” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>They Can’t Repeal Obamacare, So They’ll Just Make Sure It Doesn’t Work Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
702 Reauthorization: The Anti-Leak Package emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Slow Death of Neoliberalism: Part 2 Ed Walker, emptywheel
Latinos and Whiteness Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday, October 08, 2017 Sunday Morning Comin’ Down Sunday, October 08, 2017 Sunday Morning Comin’ Down driftglass, at his blog
The Unbearable Epiphenomenality of Firearms Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog