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
Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Breakfast News
FBI probes computer hacks in California House campaigns
Farmers protest California water plan aimed to save salmon
Day at the beach turns to panic, tragedy; married couple die
Hard to see, hard to breathe: US West struggles with smoke
Confederate statue on UNC campus toppled by protesters
Governor closes state lands to bear hunting
Washington judge blocks kill order on wolves to save cattle
El Salvador, Taiwan break ties, further isolating Asian isle
Poland bans Ukraine activist from Europe, raising questions
Uganda police battle protesters seeking release of pop star
Australia’s Turnbull survives leadership vote; Dutton leaves
Frustration rules as Venezuela unveils new currency
Greeks see little cause for joy as 8-year bailout era ends
Breakfast Blogs
Ken Starr Just Produced the Most Incredible Hypocrisy in the History of Cable News Charles P. Pierce Esquire Politics
Sometimes a Plea Is Just a Plea: The Ongoing Criminal Exposure of Mueller’s “Cooperating” Witnesses emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Corporations As Luggage Echidne, at her blog
Kavanaugh and the dirty,dirty digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The freedom to be afraid Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Trials of White House Counsel Don McGahn Andy Wright, Just Security
Windmills, Our Deadliest Killers Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ron Fournier: The Triumphant Return of the America’s Sad Clown of Centrism driftglass, at his blog
ANNNNND … IT’S ALAN DERSHOWITZ WITH THE FIRST DEFENSE OF “TRUTH ISN’T TRUTH” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
For the Record: Lincoln and Kavanaugh Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
As Press Freedom Dies In Turkey, Twitter Is There To Help Dig Its Grave Tim Cushing, Techdirt