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
Crisis unfolds in Little Rock, Ark. over racial integration in schools; Ford rolls out its ill-fated Edsel; Attorney William Kunstler dies; Mark Spitz sets Olympic gold record; Singer Beyonce born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Breakfast News
Protesters begin 100-mile march against Dakota Access
Tropical Storm Gordon brings hurricane warning to Gulf Coast
Sexual harassment complaints strain human rights agencies
$30 million poured into effort to energize young voters
Moose crowded by onlookers on shore drowns in Vermont lake
Authorities look out for bear with head stuck in container
Myanmar court sentences Reuters reporters to 7 years in jail
German authorities take aim at far-right party’s youth wing
Burned National Museum in Rio had relics from around world
China’s leader Xi looms large over North Korean anniversary
Russians rally to stop increase of pension eligibility age
Breakfast Blogs
The Attack on Labor Itself Begins Tuesday Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Those Sexy Details in the Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo Aren’t Intended for Your Consumption emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Benefits of Gender Integration At Work Echidne, at her blog
The “vulnerability ratio”digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
What On Earth is the New Yorker STILL Thinking? tristero, Hullabaloo
If it is broke, fix it Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How the FISA Court Really Works David Kris, Lawfare
You Cannot “Win” Debates on High-Profile Platforms With Bigots And Liars Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Worst Place on Earth, Revisited Erik Looomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Soul On Fire-Sale driftglass, at his blog
Wyoming’s John Barrasso Illustrates Why US Senate Is Permafucked Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Annals of Culture Change: Kaepernick to Bannon Yastreblyansky, Rectification on Names
FASCISM (AND SELF-PROMOTION) FOR TOTEBAGGERS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog