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 Beatles release their ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album; Actress Marilyn Monroe born; CNN hits the airwaves; Mormon leader Brigham Young born; Blind and deaf author and activist Helen Keller dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
Breakfast News
Complaint targets separation of immigrant families at border
Puerto Rico grid ‘teetering’ despite $3.8 billion repair job
Oregon looks into price gouging as city faces tainted water
Lawsuit says Kansas district violated students’ free speech
Vegas casinos face threat of 1st worker strike in 3 decades
Gridlock over: Virginia lawmakers approve Medicaid expansion
Alberto rains turn creek into raging river; cars swept away
Realty sign lost during Superstorm Sandy ends up in France
Socialist chief Pedro Sanchez set to become Spain’s Prime Minister
Kiev court orders detention of suspect in plot to murder Russian journalist
Italy’s anti-establishment leaders revive governing coalition
Brexit secretary plans to give Northern Ireland joint UK, EU status: The Sun
Romania and Lithuania knowingly hosted secret CIA jails, European court rules
New Zealand push on clean power comes with high political, economic risks
Danish parliament bans the wearing of face veils in public
Breakfast Blogs
Democrats Know the Country’s Problems Didn’t Begin—and Won’t End—With Trump Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Government Refuses to Name FBI Agent Accused of Deceit in MalwareTech Case emptywheel aka Narcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Today’s Trumpery Echidne, at her blog
Obama on the morning after digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Another Letter to the NY Times tristero, Hullabaloo
The Dread Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump Might Be Surprised to Learn: Justice “Spy” Tactics Used on Dem Politicians Too Liam Brennan, Just Security
The Executive Branch’s Extraordinarily Broad View of the Presidential Pardon Power Maddie McMahon and Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare
The Mussolini Kabuki Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today In Both Sides Do It: Bloody Bill Kristol driftglass, at his blog
EVEN TRUMP’S “GENEROSITY” IS NARCISSISTIC Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog