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
Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s author Dr. Seuss dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
Breakfast News
Train derails in NW Iowa, dumping sand, railcars into river
Florence the week after: Thousands brace for more flooding
Virginia school district’s bid to arm teachers rejected
As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won’t be enough
Bill targets ‘Kushner loophole’ allowing false filings
Many states’ governor’s races become proxy battle over Trump
National park in Hawaii reopens after monthslong eruption
Iran’s president blames US after attack on military parade
Spain saves some 440 migrants; new crackdown on rescue boat
Stop Brexit? UK’s Labour party mulls backing new referendum
OPEC, allies agree not to further increase oil production
German government reaches deal to solve spy chief dispute
3 Greek journalists set free after minister’s complaint
Tackling climate change to be key talking point at UN summit
Breakfast Blogs
Dr. Ford Is Outplaying These Republican Senators. Eventually They May Realize That. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On KT McFarland’s Belated Unforgetting of the Truth emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
They are all lying sacks of fetid garbage digby ala Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
They’d better schedule those overseas vacations Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Hurdles to Removing a President Under the 25th Amendment Matthew Kahn, Lawfare
Kavanaugh Kooked? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Gossip Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Maine And Vermont Have This Strange Independent Streak Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
BRET STEPHENS’S DUBIOUS BELIEF SYSTEM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog