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
President Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky scandal aired on TV; Authors H.G. Wells and Stephen King born; ‘Monday Night Football’ premieres; Actor-comedian Bill Murray born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. Stephen King
Material below the fold maybe NSFW.
Breakfast News
Florence-weary South Carolina could get more record flooding
California makes people ask for straws, sodas with kid meals
Floodwaters inundate lake at NC power plant, raising alarm
Bye bye bugs? Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
Yellowstone thermal spring erupts for 4th time in 60 years
China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west
Despite strong laws, domestic violence in Brazil is rampant
Philippine villages at risk of landslides forcibly evacuated
Plight of jailed Catalans strains dialogue with Spain
Egypt court orders release of former president’s sons
Japan’s Abe re-elected as party head, to stay on as PM
Breakfast Blogs
There’s a Disturbance in the Force Out There in Republicanland Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Committee Playing Games with Perjury Referrals Swears They Can Make Mark Judge Tell the Truth without Testifying emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler,
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On the Kavanaugh Nomination And Women’s Reproductive Rights. Or Back to the Basics. Post One. Echidne, at her blog
Thanks Republican women! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Advanced Kavanaugh calculus Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Does Trump Have Legal Authority to Follow Through on John Bolton’s Threats to the Int’l Criminal Court? Marty Lederman, Just Security
Kavanaugh’s Mentor Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Just for one day Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Metamorphosis II driftglass, at his blog
D’Stort D’Newsa: The Puerilizing of Political Discourse Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
AN OCTOBER DAMP SQUIB? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Mazie Hirono All Up Chuck Grassley’s Butt Like ALOHA, MOTHERFUCKER! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Ladies! Get EMPOWERED By Losing Your Reproductive Rights And Being Groped! Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Flood Victims Cope With Toxic Coal Ash, Pigshit, And Donald Trump Doktor Zoom, Wonkette