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
First steps toward building the Berlin Wall during the Cold War; Cuba’s Fidel Castro born; Spain’s Cortez captures what’s now Mexico City; Director Alfred Hitchcock born; Baseball’s Mickey Mantle dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.
Breakfast News
Strongest-ever earthquake hits Alaska’s North Slope region
Crews make progress battling Southern California wildfire
‘Touch the sun’: NASA spacecraft hurtles toward our star
Orca back to feeding, frolicking after carrying dead calf
Dog running on interstate can’t resist lure of stuffed teddy
Wildfire forces Greek villages on island of Evia to evacuate
5 nations sign deal on Caspian Sea water, fishing rights
Malians vote in presidential runoff amid attacks, threats
Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak taking place in a war zone
Lombok lifted 10 inches by quake that killed nearly 400
Breakfast Blogs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Running for Congress. She’s Not Here to Pump Up Your Wingnut Book Sales. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Like a Rat-Fucking Stone: Russians and Roger Reading from the Same Voter Suppression Script emptywheel aka Mary Wheeler, emptywheel
Nunes is an accomplice not a patriot digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Common Sense from a Politician tristero, Hullabaloo
Common Sense from a Politician tristero, Hullabaloo
Les misérables riche Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
DHS Spins the Border Numbers… Again Andrew Boyle, Just Security
Is It Time for a Space Force? Robert Farley, Lawfare
The Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Maybe Millennials Are No Good After All Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
DON JR. WILL SOMEDAY BE THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IF HE AVOIDS PRISON (AND MAYBE IF HE DOESN’T) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Insult to Injury Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
D.C. Restaurants To Charlottesville 2.0 Marchers: Nazi Punks Fuck Off Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette