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
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense; London’s Underground opens; The Beatles first album released in US hits store shelves; Rod Stewart born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
Breakfast News
13 dead in Southern California as rain triggers mudslides
Trump administration says no oil drilling off Florida coast
IV bag shortage has hospitals scrambling to treat flu
Judges: North Carolina must redo map skewed by partisanship
Illinois transgender inmate to be moved from current prison
Animal rights group presses Army on wild horse roundups
S. Korea’s Moon wants more talks to resolve North nuke issue
Exiled Iranian royal sees chance to end the Islamic Republic
France investigating Apple’s secret slowdown of old iPhones
Russia takes aim at US over series of Syria drone attacks
Polish PM reshuffles his Cabinet to warm EU ties
Greece limits Sharia law after European Court challenge
Breakfast Blogs
Scott Pruitt Is Now a Christian Warrior for the Environment Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The terrorist nobody noticed digby ala Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“And they blew it.” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Daphne Merkin’s Misgivings on the #MeToo Phenomenon Echidne, at her blog
A New Frontier in American Ethnic Cleansing Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Because Every Political Catastrophe Needs a Sanctimonious Equivocator — UPDATE driftglass, at his blog
THE GOP CRAZY IS SELF-SUSTAINING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Former NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty To Taking His National Defense Work Home With Him Tim Cushing, Techdirt