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
The Battle of Antietam sets a bloody record during America’s Civil War; Work ends on U.S. Constitution; Israel and Egypt’s leaders sign Camp David Accords; Singer Hank Williams born; ‘MASH’ premieres.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
Breakfast News
Florence death toll at 17, including 3-month-old
Flooding fears surge as rivers rise; Wilmington cut off
Rains from Florence cause collapse at NC coal ash landfill
Official: Pressure sensors focus of gas explosions probe
ICE agent in Oregon arrested on sodomy charges
Maine House asks court whether tribe could run casino
Huge squirrel population chomps crops, driving farmers nuts
Hundreds of baby chicks found on vacant Philadelphia lot
Typhoon pounds China after mud buries dozens in Philippines
Israeli lawmaker to PM: Dismiss US envoy over aide scandal
Doomed Palestinian village turns to Europe as last hope
Kurds opt out of first local elections in Syria since 2011
Mexican president elect introduces civilian head of security
Roads shut after 2 fall ill in UK city where ex-spy poisoned
Severely ill Pussy Riot member to be treated in Germany
Montenegro-Croatia relations in danger over training ship
Breakfast Blogs
It’s Not Just the President* Who Ought to Be Sweating Today Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Manafort Turns State’s Evidence: “It’s Time for Some Game Theory” emptgywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bannon gets his audience digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Ten years and a lost generation ago Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What is it about Rightwing Killbots Named “Ben”? driftglass, at his blog