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
Germans dance on top of Berlin Wall as communism crumbles in Eastern Europe; Nazis target Jews during ‘Kristallnacht’; A massive blackout hits the Northeast; Poet Dylan Thomas and Actor Art Carney die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Breakfast News
Hundreds demonstrate to protect Russia investigation
Along border, a growing opposition to military deployment
Appeals court hears argument that Mueller probe is invalid
US expands sanctions over Russia activities in Ukraine
Group challenges Kansas ban on telemedicine abortions
NASCAR’s culture of cheating unmasked during playoffs
Court urged to end rule that erased Hernandez’s conviction
Warsaw court nixes city ban on far-right Independence march
Google bows to worker pressure on sexual misconduct policy
1 death linked to ongoing turkey salmonella outbreak
Moscow square named after British double agent Kim Philby
US mortgage rates jump to highest level in nearly 8 years
Breakfast Blogs
As Soon as Scott Walker Lost, His Pet Legislature Started Stripping the Governor’s Powers Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Risks that Every Action Matt Whitaker Takes as Attorney General Can Be Legally Challenged emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The sum of their fears Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Top Legal Ethics Expert (Stephen Gillers) Writes: Whitaker Should Be Recused Stephen Gillers and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
The Senate Disaster Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns And Money
History Is Bunk driftglass, at his blog
Homeopathic Populism Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
RACISTS THINK TRUMP IS A RACIST Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog