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
Paris liberated during World War II; A first swim across the English Channel; Actor Sean Connery, composer Leonard Bernstein, and musician Elvis Costello born; Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ released.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Breakfast News
Google tells Toomey hackers tried to infiltrate staff email
Hurricane Lane floods homes as others take to the waves
Deadline looming, NJ Transit rejected for rail funding grant
Odds of shortage increase for vital river in US Southwest
APNewsBreak: University accepted $458K from eugenics fund
Trump administration agrees to protect West Coast humpbacks
Treasury sanctions target Islamic State recruiters
Australians lash out over latest leadership change
Zimbabwe court unanimously upholds president’s election win
Myanmar crackdown splits Rohingya with little hope of return
Huge wildfire southwest of Berlin sets off WWII arms blasts
UN official: Palestinian refugee issue can’t be wished away
Venezuelan migrants pour into Peru before new rules enforced
Migrants aboard Italian coast guard ship begin hunger strike
Mount Etna volcano roars into action with ash and lava
Breakfast Blogs
The Trump White House Doesn’t Want Untainted Elections Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Trump Team’s Strategic Errors: Special Master Edition emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
We Already Know Trump Is Betraying His Country William Saletan, Slate
Steve Bannon and Michele Bachmann Promoting Brazil’s Far-Right Presidential Candidate Peter Montgomery, Right Wing Watch
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The scheme is a scam Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Memory is the Liberal Superpower: On the Subject of Impeachment driftglass, at his blog
ONE THING COULD MAKE THE GOP BASE TURN AGAINST TRUMP, AND TUCKER CARLSON HAS IDENTIFIED IT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
We Need To Talk About Trump’s Pecker Protector Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Oh Hey, Brett Kavanaugh Was All Up In Hillary Clinton’s Vagina Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Reality Winner Will Spend Five Years In Jail For Leaking Info Government Officials Released Publicly Tim Cushing, Techdirt