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
Nathan Hale hanged in the American Revolution; Iraq invades Iran; President Gerald Ford faces a second assassination attempt in weeks; ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ hits Broadway; Songwriter Irving Berlin dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Death toll rises to 43 in aftermath of Florence
Flooding: Dam breach at Duke plant; coal ash could spill
When will it end? Florence’s floodwaters rising in Carolinas
Canceling Georgia nuclear plant could cost owners billions
Judges signal they’ll revive Sarah Palin defamation lawsuit
US agency endorses plan to block new mining near Yellowstone
California college moves ‘Prospector Pete’ statue from plaza
Rural Texas town council approves Muslim cemetery plan
Officials prepare to relocate wolves to Isle Royale park
UK leader May hits back on Brexit plan; pound falls
Germans angry over spy chief’s promotion after comments
Maldives prepares for polls seen as test for young democracy
Kremlin slams new US sanctions affecting arms exports
Breakfast Blogs
The New York Times‘ Rosenstein Story Is Just a Game of Telephone Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Shiny Object of the May 2017 Russian Investigation: The Evidence Mostly Came in after August 1 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Sen. Hirono: FBI Should Investigate Death Threats to Dr. Ford As Witness Tampering Spocko, Hullabaloo
Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
And now don’t tell me that all of this was the work of one Edward Whelan Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Noney
Bothsiderism, the never-ending story Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Grand Re-Opening of the “Independent” Granfalloon* driftglass, at his blog
The Calls Are Coming From Inside the (White) House Yastereblyansky, Rectification of Names
Enjoying the Toxic Shit and Coal Water, Carolinas? The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE BASE DOESN’T LIKE THE ED WHELAN THEORY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T MAKE THE ACCUSER SEEM EVIL ENOUGH Steve M., No More Mister Nice BLog
New York Times Just Handed Trump Rod Rosenstein’s Head On A Stick, So It Can Fuck Right Out Of Here Evan Husrt, Wonkette
Franklin Graham Pretty Sure There’s Nothing Wrong With A Little Rape Between High School Kids Doktor Zoom. Wonkette