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
Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act; Anthrax tainted letters sent to NBC and the New York Post.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Breakfast News
US slashes number of refugees to 30,000 for next year
Emergency crews throw supply lifeline to isolated Wilmington
Death tolls often rise weeks after storm hits
Feds allow Atlantic Coast pipeline construction to resume
Coca-Cannabis? Coke analyzing cannabis in wellness drinks
To avoid overdoses, some test their heroin before taking it
Grizzly’s rare aggressive attack kills 1, puzzles officials
Trump imposes tariffs on $200B more of Chinese goods
Turkey, Russia agree on demilitarized zone in Syria’s Idlib
Hope fades in Philippines for dozens buried in landslides
Egypt says it fights fake news, critics see new crackdown
UK police say no Novichok link to Salisbury mystery illness
UK leader warns rebels: it’s my Brexit agreement or no deal
Breakfast Blogs
History Will Remember Mitch McConnell as One of the Very Worst Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Wants Voters — and Russia — to Know What the Russia Investigation Looked Like on August 1, 2017, not September 14, 2018 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Father Doesn’t Know Best: Kavanaugh and Women’s Unshared Traumas Rayne, emptywheel
Character witnesses digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Waiting for the tweet storm Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Ability to Classify Mueller Report Is Greater Threat Than Executive Privilege Kel McClanahan, Just Security
How Putin Works to Weaken Faith in the Rule of Law and Our Justice System Suzanne Spaulding and Harvey Rishikof, Lawfare
Trump Flunky Gives Ridiculous Defense of Trumpian Trump Nominee Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
hrilling Tales of True Conservatism! Vol 24: Where Everybody Knows Your Game driftglass, at his blog
No Evidence [Narrator: There is some evidence] Yatreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Kavanaugh Is a Creep (And Ford Is Courageous) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Donald Trump Jr. And Brett Kavanaugh Walk Into A Bar. Cover Your Drinks! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Fuck Ted Cruz For Scaring Texas Grandmas. Also, Just In General Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
YES, PUT MARK JUDGE UNDER OATH, TOO Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog