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
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.
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