The Breakfast Club (Metaphors)

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.

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This Day in History

Andrea Doria begins to sink after a collision in the North Atlantic; An Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris; First ‘test-tube’ baby born; Golfer Ben Hogan dies; ‘A Chorus Line’ opens on Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

Orson Scott Card

Breakfast News

Guatemalan boy reunites with father after weeks in Kansas

With focus on Mexico, apprehensions grow at Canadian border

Judge: Release immigrant held after Army base pizza delivery

Appeals court: 2nd Amendment protects open carry of guns

Newspapers endure more cuts, hope for brighter future online

Heart of Yosemite park to close as crews battle blaze

Charges of rigging, intimidation mar Pakistan campaign

Palestinian envoy says US peace plan is ‘dead upon arrival’

Congo confirms end of latest deadly Ebola outbreak

Putin, Xi at BRICS summit expected to take aim at US tariffs

North Korea said to be dismantling key parts of launch site

Life in Haiti was getting worse for many before latest riots

Breakfast Blogs

Of Course the Easy-to-Win Trade Wars Will Cost Taxpayer Money to Mop Up Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Twenty Comey Questions Do Not Eliminate Trump’s Obstruction Exposure emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Good thing he’s not a warmonger digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Sending populist cues Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Two Important New Civilian Casualties Provisions in the Defense Authorization Bill Rita Siemion, Just Security

Reading Between the Lines on House Efforts to Impeach Rod Rosenstein Molly E. Reynolds, Lawfare

On Swing Voters Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Fear of a socialist nation Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

David Brooks Is Really Rooting For Us drfitglass, at his blog

INCIVILITY WATCH Steve M., No More Mister Mice Blog

Concerned Yastreblansky, Rectification of Names

And you thought there was no evidence that Trump is guilty of a capital crime. Or should I say, CAPITAL CRIME? The New York Crank, at his blog

Putin Friend-Zones Trump Evan Hurst, Wonkette

No Matter What You Think Of Julian Assange, It Would Be Harmful For Press Freedoms For The US To Prosecute For Publishing Leaks Mike Masnick, Techdirt