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
President Harry Truman wins re-election in an upset; South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem killed after coup; Howard Hughes flies his ‘Spruce Goose’; Game show scandal rocks early TV; Singer k.d. lang born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.
Breakfast News
Puerto Rico seeks help as Medicaid crisis deepens after Maria
U.S. judge frees Indonesian immigrant held by Trump order
CIA releases new tranche of materials seized in 2011 bin Laden raid
Monsanto, BASF weed killers strain U.S. states with damage complaints
Awaiting Trump’s coal comeback, miners reject retraining
Ousted Catalan leader says will not return to Spain to testify
UK parliament says government must publish secret Brexit impact studies
Iraq threatens to resume military operations against Kurds
Colombia’s FARC leader Timochenko to run for presidency in 2018
Breakfast Blogs
Did Hitler Come Up in the JFK Files? Of Course He Did. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Jeff Sessions Unforgets the Discussions with Russians He Twice Swore He Didn’t Know About emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Nature’s Fall Whispers Echidne, at her blog
Sickening disrespect from Donald Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The authoritarian’s compromise Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
If Daddy gives me two million pieces of candy, am I a disruptive candy entrepreneur? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Reason Died On The Right Long Ago driftglass, at his blog
TRUMP’S MARKS ARE STILL FALLING FOR THE CON Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Verizon Lobbies FCC To Block States From Protecting Broadband Privacy, Net Neutrality Karl Bode, Techdirt