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
Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Breakfast News
Judge: US can’t deny passport over refusing to pick gender
Judge throws out lawsuit by ex-wrestlers over concussions
Frustration builds as Carolina residents wait to go home
Federal agency says it lost track of 1,488 migrant children
Monsanto asks judge to throw out $289M award in cancer suit
EEOC: Offensive behavior ‘rife’ in Homeland Security office
A year after Maria, Puerto Rican kidney patients fear death
Kim agrees to dismantle main nuke site if US takes steps too
Europe’s solutions to migration create humanitarian crises
Pakistan’s ex-PM Sharif freed after court suspends sentence
Britain appeals for EU Brexit compromise over Irish border
Thousands back home in north Syria after Russia-Turkey deal
Breakfast Blogs
This Presidential* Tantrum Is Straight From Vladimir Putin’s Playbook Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Donald Trump’s Bubble May Be Robert Mueller’s Greatest Weapon emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Wall-nut in the White House digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
White, wealthy, and bulletproof Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Bolton, the ICC and the Rohingya Aryeh Neier, Just Security
Hanging On With Loud Desperation is the Ted Cruz Way Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
On a book entitled “Lolita” Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Diversity on the Border Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Hugh Hewitt Will Not Open The Pod Pay Doors driftglass, at his blog
Self-Gaslighting Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Conservatives Are Right: This Is About Abortion The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Plucky Maine Library Decides Not To Censor Own ‘Banned Books’ Display Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Christine Blasey Ford Not As Dumb As Y’all Republicans Wish She Were Evan Hurst, Wonkette