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
Wright brothers conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. U.S. test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Simon Bolivar dies in Colombia; television’s Tiny Tim marries his fiancee, Miss Vicky.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot/blockquote>
Breakfast News
Venezuela’s ex-chief prosecutor asks international court to try Maduro
World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund proposes ditching oil and gas holdings
UK hopes to end long legal dispute with Iran over 1976 arms deal
Saudis must lift Yemen blockade or ‘untold’ thousands will die, UN agencies warn
Virginia regulators approve carbon cap-and-trade plan
Philadelphia moves one step closer to return of local control of public schools
More than 200 arrested in U.S. crackdown on MS-13 gang
U.S. airlines sharply cut involuntary passenger bumping: DOT
Federal judge limits St. Louis police conduct during protests
Origins of 2014 militia showdown with U.S. agents recounted in Nevada court
Breakfast Blogs
The Latest Republican Gambit to Get Rid of Roy Moore Is Nakedly Unconstitutional Charles Pierce, Politics Esquire
On the Breadcrumbs Suggesting Feds Flipped Reza Zarrab emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Kowabunga — an epic wave? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Slow earners Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Death Wish VI: Paul Ryan and the Blue State Republicans Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The BernieBro Response to Franken Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I DON’T BELIEVE THE FOX POLL THAT SHOWS DOUG JONES WINNING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
FBI Acts Like It’s Still 1960 With Its Report On ‘Black Identity Extremists’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt