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
The Stamp Act takes effect; The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb; Sistine Chapel paintings are first shown to the public; Algerian nationalists begin rebellion against French rule; NFL’s Walter Payton dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Breakfast News
U.S. nuclear arsenal to cost $1.2 trillion over next 30 years: CBO
U.S. states allege broad generic drug price-fixing collusion
Puerto Rico calls on U.S. utilities to help restore power
U.S. trade panel set to recommend solar trade tariffs
U.S. to vote against U.N. resolution calling for end to Cuba embargo
Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. seeks return to U.S. to defend money laundering settlement
UK opposition look to force government into publishing Brexit dossiers
Russia invites Syrian Kurds to people’s congress: Kurdish official
Merkel preaches tolerance, religious freedom at Reformation ceremony
Breakfast Blogs
John Kelly Proves That Compromise Is Not, in Itself, a Virtue Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltiics
We Have No Idea What Emails the Papadopoulos Plea Refer To emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What Is Happening In The Alternative Reality? Fox News Tells Us Echidne, at her Blog
Bannon tells Trump it’s time go to the mattresses dgby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The big W Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
America’s State Television Assesses the Manafort Indictment Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Fair and balanced Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 162 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
O Tempora! O Mores! O Fuck David Brooks! drftglass, at his blog
AFTER THE NEW YORK ATTACK, A RIGHT-WING THRILLER WRITER MOUTHS OFF — AND GETS SCHOOLED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Spinoff: Whatever The Reports About Russian Trolls Buying Ads Is Initially, It’s Way, Way Worse Tim Geigner, Techdirt