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
JFK and Nixon participate in TV’s first presidential debate; Cuba ends Mariel boatlift; Composer George Gershwin, poet T.S. Eliot and tennis star Serena Williams born; ‘West Side Story’ hits Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Breakfast News
No jail time in assault case spurs push to oust Alaska judge
US judge repeats Trump vulgarity during immigration hearing
Bankruptcy court OKs settlement for clergy sex abuse victims
2-year window for clergy abuse lawsuits sent to state Senate
Virginia suspends tampon ban for prison visitors
Wyoming, Idaho weigh options after grizzly hunt ruling
Veterinarian removes eel from loggerhead sea turtle’s body
Just Dunkin’: Dunkin’ Donuts to change its name
UK Labour opposition party vows to reject May’s Brexit deal
French ex-premier launches bid to become Barcelona mayor
5 EU countries reach deal to end limbo of rescued migrants
Merkel’s party ousts close ally of chancellor from top post
Beluga whale spotted in River Thames outside London
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s U.N. Speech Was a Laughingstock Until It Was a Terror Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Brett Kavanaugh: “It Depends on What the Meaning of the Phrase ‘Sexual Assault’ Is” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Meanwhile, in Alaska, A Travesty of Justice Echidne. at her blog
Will they dump him? Don’t know. But it would make sense if they did. digby, Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Mauvais Appétit, Ted tristero, Hullabaloo
Remembering the Whiskey Rebellion Matthew Waxman, Lawfare
Judiciary Committee Unwilling to Ask Questions At Their Own Potemkin Hearing Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Virginity Claim Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Delusions of squalor Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Wanker of the Week: Frank Bruni Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
BRETT KAVANAUGH DOES A BAD IMITATION OF DONALD TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Mother Seeking Protective Order Tossed In Jail For ‘Crying While Black’ Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Lisa Murkowski Showing Susan Collins How Not To Be Such A Susan Collins Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Should Ted Cruz Be Able To Eat Dinner In Peace? Nope. NFW! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Even Wall Street Is Nervous About Comcast’s Latest Bid To Grow Bigger For Bigger’s Sake Karl Bode, Techdirt