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
The FDA approves the first birth control pill; FCC chief Newton Minow condemns TV programming; Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole; Journalist Mike Wallace and singer Billy Joel born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If there’s anything that’s important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
Breakfast News
Lingering residents forced to evacuate as lava cracks spread
Congress wants review of military child-on-child sex abuse
Mormons severing all ties with Boy Scouts, ending long bond
Congressman pushing frozen berries for fresh produce program
Montana floodwaters submerge neighborhood, threaten others
Texas prosecutors drop dozens more cases from Waco shooting
Anonymous benefactor buys sacred pipe at auction for Sioux
World powers regret US pullout from Iran nuclear deal
Syrian media report Israeli attack near capital Damascus
Malaysians vote in election defined by graft scandal, tax
Leaders of Japan, China, SKorea agree to cooperate on NKorea
China cutting US soybean purchases in face of tariffs threat
Armenia gets new leader, man who spearheaded protests
Medvedev approved for new term as Russia’s prime minister
Breakfast Blogs
Wow, Another Fun Report on Our Nuclear Weapons Program! Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone, Rick Gates, and Michael Caputo Met Right Around DNC/Podesta Hack emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Renegade Thinkers of The Intellectual Dark Web Echidne, at her blog
Shocker: no take home test for Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
#ButhisCashDeals Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Two (Premature) Cheers for Doe v. Mattis Steve Vladeck, Just Security
my father’s way of doing things is over, it’s finished. Even he knows that. I mean, in five years, the Trump Family is going to be completely legitimate Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Did Elliott Broidy pay $1.6 million to cover up Donald Trump’s affair with Shera Bechard? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bari Weiss’ League of Extraordinarily Entitled Men Versus the Secret Legion of Elite Liberal Taste-Makers: Part XXIII driftglass, at his blog
West of Eden: Deal Away Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Who Downloaded Public Documents From Gov’t FOI Portal Tim Cushing, Techdirt