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
Dr. Sam Sheppard acquitted of murder in new trial; U.S. and U.S.S.R. form diplomatic ties; Second anthrax letter found sent to Capitol Hill; Actor William Holden dies; ‘Sound of Music’ hits Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. Billy Wilder
Breakfast News
Florida officials order hand recount of ballots in tight Senate race
Staggered evacuation plan questioned in fire’s aftermath
Absentee ballots reviewed in heated Georgia governor’s race
Women elected in record numbers in state legislative races
Democrat flips US House seat in Maine ranked balloting
California recommends restrictions for popular pesticide
Senate lets Bahrain weapon sale proceed; Yemen unease grows
UK’s defiant May tells critics it’s her Brexit deal or chaos
More caravan migrants arrive in Tijuana, brace for long stay
Bangladesh scraps Rohingya return, says no one wants to go
Breakfast Blogs
Democrats Can’t ‘Work With’ Republicans Until Republicans Return to Reality Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Appointee Dabney Friedrich Continues to Trounce the Trolls’ Hopes of Discrediting Mueller emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Why We March—A Bipartisan Coalition Has Got Mueller’s Back Lisa Gilbert, Just Security
‘You Win Or You Die’: Not a Model for a Sanctions Regime Megan Reiss, Lawfare
On the #FiveWhiteGuys Coup Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Blocker Awards: Day Three — Never Trumper Historical Revisionism Award driftglass, at his blog
Freedom’s just another word for no follow-up questions Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
SEAN HANNITY IS THE NEW CHRIS CHRISTIE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Weird Shit from Trump’s Weird-Ass Interview with the Daily Caller The Rude Pundit, at his blog
CNN’s Jim Acosta Case: You Know WHO ELSE Picked His Own Press Pool? Dr. Zoom, Wonkette