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
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean; British prime minister Margaret Thatcher resigns; Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is beaten to death; The Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut; Comedian Jon Stewart born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you don’t stick to your values when they’re being tested, they’re not values: they’re hobbies.
Breakfast News
Denver is latest city pushing for 1st US drug injection site
US to appeal judge’s order barring asylum restrictions
US makes case for withdrawal from missile treaty with Russia
US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp
Russia starts prosecuting Ukrainians after sea clash
Gene-editing scientist under scrutiny by Chinese officials
Mexico accepts housing migrants, seeks US development aid
Global lawmakers grill Facebook exec; Zuckerberg’s a no-show
200 years of ‘Silent Night’: Singers mark carol’s birthday
Breakfast Blogs
The ‘Problem Solvers Caucus’ Would Solve a Lot of Problems By Sitting Down and Shutting Up Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
President Trump: I happen to be a tariff person because I’m a smart person, OK? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
It’s all transactional Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
New Proof Surfaces That Family Separation Was About Deterrence and Punishment Beth Van Schaak, Just Security
Collins Gonna Collins Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Lordstown and “Work in America” DJW, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Oh How I Love a Crossover Episode driftglass, at his blog
Got paranoia? Manafort and Assange Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
There Are Always Migrants; They’ve Always Been Treated Like Garbage in the U.S. The Rude Pundit, at his blog
I’M SURE WE’VE UNEARTHED ONLY A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF FOX’S INTERVIEW SCRIPTING Steve m., No More Mister Nice Blog