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
President Richard Nixon says ‘I am not a crook’; Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England; Suez Canal opens; Congress holds first DC session; Sculptor Auguste Rodin dies; Film director Martin Scorsese born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Breakfast News
Officials try to account for hundreds missing in fire’s wake
NYC lawsuit: Immigration detainees denied day in court
Free speech threat seen in prosecuting WikiLeaks’ Assange
Jennie-O recalling ground turkey in salmonella outbreak
Texas hospital system accused of holding patients illegally
Migrants won’t see armed soldiers on border
Iraq resumes Kirkuk oil exports after yearlong pause
Allies rally to UK’s May amid leadership woes over Brexit
Cyclone kills 13 in southern India, 80K people evacuated
Fight over dinosaur fossils comes down to what’s a mineral
Take a weight off: Tears, joy as kilo gets historic update
Kids’ postcards blanket Alpine glacier in eco-friendly stunt
Breakfast Blogs
We’re a Republic, Not a Democracy. Yes. But This Is Too Far. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Invisible Game of Chicken: The Things the People Claiming to Understand the Manafort Extension Don’t Know (Nor Do I) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Huckleberry Graham takes the judiciary gavel. Ugh. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Orange turns blue Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Was Your Voting Machine Hacked? Without More User-Friendly Devices, We May Not Know Marc Canellas, Just Security
Russia Asserts Immunity in the DNC Case Ingrid Wuerth, Lawfare
Today in the Noble Ideas of Amateurism Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Blocker Awards: Day Four — The Mocker Blocker Award driftglass, at his blog
New York note: In defense of Bill de Blasio, don’t @ me Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
A WELCOME CHANGE — LET’S HOPE IT LASTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Peggy Noonan Has Questions About Michelle Obama Evan Hurst, Wonkette