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
Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler commits suicide; End of the Vietnam War as Saigon falls; George Washington sworn in as America’s first president; The Louisiana Purchase; Country singer Willie Nelson born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen.
Breakfast News
US says crossing is full before caravan tries to seek asylum
Drugmakers push back against lawmakers’ calls to tax opioids
Sprint and T-Mobile agree to combine in $26.5 billion deal
Land deal will preserve site linked to Lost Colony mystery
UK interior minister quits over growing immigration scandal
Syrian troops briefly take villages east of Euphrates river
Philippines makes ban on workers going to Kuwait permanent
Londoners warned of health threat from toxic caterpillars
North Korea to Close Nuclear Test Site, Change Clocks to Match South
Breakfast Blogs
The House Republican Russia Report Is Nothing But a Hack Job Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Context of Veselnitskaya’s “Informant” Comment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
The Girl And The Dancing Bear. Or Echidne’s Poetry Translation Hour Ecidne, at her blog
Give us an inch and we’ll take the entire world digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Those overlooked places Ton Sullivan, Hullabaloo
New Evidence of Obstruction of Justice in House Intelligence Committee Minority Report Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Cillizza’d Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 238/Dead Horses in American History, Part 18 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Hughing and the Crying drfitglass, at his blog
MICHELLE WOLF, THE MEDIA, AND THE DEMOCRATS’ CHANCES IN 2020 Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog