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
Mongol ruler Genghis Khan dies; Women in U.S. clinch right to vote; James Meredith graduates from Univ. of Miss.; Vladimir Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ published in U.S.; Actor-director Robert Redford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Breakfast News
Aretha Franklin’s funeral set for Aug. 31 in Detroit
Synthetic pot seen as a public health danger
Nevada water chief rejects big Vegas pipeline pumping plan
Judge seeks end to ethics case over death penalty protest
Scientists downgrade alert level for Hawaii volcano
Judge told to consider protections for Montana grayling fish
Stinky ‘corpse flower’ in full bloom in California
Peru, Ecuador tighten requirements for Venezuela migrants
In Uganda a pop star takes on a president, at his peril
Pakistani lawmakers elect Imran Khan as prime minister
People plucked from rooftops as Indian floods kill 324
6.1 quake shakes Costa Rica near Panama; no major damage
‘Most ancient’ solid cheese found in dug up Egyptian jar
Breakfast Blogs
The Assault on Minority Voting Rights Is Loud and Proud in Georgia Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Epistemology of Security Clearance Dick-Waving emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother: tiger cubs! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Home Alone 3: Friendless in Washington, D.C Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Public Utility’s Recording of Home Energy Consumption Every 15 Minutes Is a ‘Search,’ Seventh Circuit Rules Orin Kerr, Lawfare
The Denmark Diversion Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 309 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
American Conservatism’s Shitty Science Fiction driftglass, at his blog
It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! It’s More Disingenuous Trump Horseshit About Obamacare! Dr. Zoom, Wonkette