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
Thomas Edison says he’s invented the phonograph; Gap revealed on Nixon White House tape; Final victim dies in America’s anthrax scare; Jonathan Pollard arrested; ‘Anything Goes’ opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Breakfast News
US judge stalls enforcement of Trump asylum restrictions
Pentagon says troops at US border to cost about $210 million
As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg
Tech giants plunge again, pushing market into red for year
Americans, Canadians are warned: Don’t eat romaine lettuce
Possible Russian president of Interpol raises alarm in West
Rain could hamper search for victims of California wildfire
Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria
Breakfast Blogs
Let’s Have a Look at These ‘Revolutionaries’ Coming for Nancy Pelosi Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Leo’s Lane: Balls and Strikes versus Checks and Balances emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
I’ve been saying this from the get: Trump seriously wants to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Democracy: for better and for worse Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Asylum Seekers Being Turned Away No Matter Where They Cross the Border Katherine Hawkins, Just Security
New Mueller Investigation Resource Page Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
Former MSU president Lou Anna Simon charged with two felonies for lying about Nassar investigation Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: Break’s Over driftglass, at his blog
THERE’S ONLY ONE WIDE-CIRCULATION NARRATIVE ON LATE VOTE COUNTS, AND IT’S THE REPUBLICAN NARRATIVE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump’s Completely Batshit and Evil Statement About Saudi Arabia and the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi The Rude Pundit, at his blog