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
John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry; France’s Marie Antoinette beheaded; John Paul II chosen as pope; Chile’s ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet detained; ‘Baby Jessica’ rescued; Novelist James Michener dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Breakfast News
Firefighters ‘turn a corner’ but deadly California wildfires continue
US special forces deaths in Niger lift veil on shadow war against Islamists in Sahel
Nevada must enforce its own background-check law, legal suit demands
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taken off Mississippi school reading list
Conservative Sebastian Kurz on track to become Austria’s next leader
Mogadishu truck bomb: 500 casualties in Somalia’s worst terrorist attack
UK lawyers say Hong Kong rule of law under threat after jailing of activists
Emmanuel Macron claims in TV interview: ‘I am not cut off’
Breakfast Blogs
Every Republican Supports This Madman Initiative Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Ben Wittes and Susan Hennessey Endorse Judicial Lawbreaking emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, Hullabaloo
“Give me what I want or the planet gets it” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A matter of trust Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Rule of Capture, Returned Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks Says Trump’s “Sabotage and Fuck You” EO Might Turn Out Great For Everybody driftglass, at his blog
BANNON’S RIDICULOUS BOAST, BY THE NUMBERS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog