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
Nazis and Soviets sign a non-aggression pact on eve of World War II; Sacco and Vanzetti executed; Defrocked priest John Geoghan killed; Movie star Rudolph Valentino and Broadway’s Oscar Hammerstein die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Breakfast News
With no place to run, people in Hawaii brace for hurricane
New rail port connects north Georgia with ships on the coast
Rope, not dope: Hemp harvest at Washington’s Mount Vernon
North Carolina will keep 3 Confederate monuments at Capitol
San Francisco’s $2.2 billion ‘Grand Central’ terminal open
Big oil asks government to protect it from climate change
Florida red tide: Wildlife advocate stunned by toll on fish
New Mexico utility seeks to join western energy market
North Korea speeds construction spree ahead of anniversary
US: Russia talks on Afghanistan ‘unlikely to yield progress’
Colleagues say Australian PM has lost party support, must go
Opening door to migrants, some Italians defy government line
Giraffe, rhino deaths raise alarm at former Buenos Aires zoo
Aftershock hits Venezuela following biggest quake since 1900
Breakfast Blogs
Here’s Some Decency in Politics, and Some Decency in Defense of Journalism Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Cohen May Be Shopping a Cooperation Agreement; It’s Not Clear Anyone Is Buying emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
On Combatting False Beliefs Echidne, at her blog
Why Trump voters don’t care if their leader is a criminal
All the president’s Goodfellas digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
It’s Too Late to Protect the 2018 Elections. But Here’s How the U.S. Can Prepare for 2020. Alex Stamos, Lawfare
These Are Not Very Bright Etc. Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What’s Everyone’s Favorite Interior Secretary Up To?
Meanwhile, at a Publication Operated by John McCain’s Son-In-Law… driftglass, at his blog
I SHOULD START COMMITTING CRIMES, BECAUSE ORRIN HATCH SAYS I CAN’T HELP IT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Random thoughts about Paul, Donald, Melania, George, (George? Yes, George!) lawyers, pardons, and raincoats — not necessarily in that order The New York Crank, at his blog
Literary Corner: Gestating the Turkey Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
This Is An Elegant Fucking Civil Rights Master Class From Beto O’Rourke, Sit And Get Learned! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Michael Cohen Ready To Spill, And HELLO Don Jr. And Eric! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette