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
The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior; Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies; Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone in central Africa; Film composer Ennio Morricone born; ‘Sesame Street’ premieres.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.
Breakfast News
Another Keystone XL setback: environmental review ordered
Utah latest state to legalize medical pot, expand Medicaid
Trump moves to limit asylum; new rules challenged in court
Nothing unusual about vote count in Arizona dragging on
Federal panel calls for pause on Arkansas Medicaid rule
China warns US to avoid islands it claims in South China Sea
UN: 445,000 Yemenis have fled Hodeida area
US moving to stop refueling of Saudi aircraft in Yemen war
A century after fighting for Paris, leaders mark armistice
Animal control officers, nearby helpers catch loose chicken
Breakfast Blogs
The People Sickened By America’s Largest Coal Ash Spill May Finally Get Some Justice Charles P. Pierce, The Already-Strong Campaign Finance Case Against Donald Trump Just Got Stronger—Criminal offenses includedEsquire Politics
In Thursday Hearing, Mueller’s Team Gets Specific about What They Can Do without Whitaker’s Pre-Approval emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump’s Presser, Translated Echidne, at her blog
Pick up the clue phone, Huckleberry digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A Little Thing That Says It All tristero, Hullabaloo
A law unto himself Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo Paul Seamus Ryan, Just Security
Trump conspired with David Pecker to quash stories about his affairs Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Random Observations… (Part 2): How Crazy Will Shit Get? The Rude Pundit, at his blog
David Brooks Columns I Never Finished Reading Yastrebyansky, Rectification of Names
NO MATTER WHAT NORMS THEY’RE SMASHING, REPUBLICANS ALWAYS SAY WE’RE THE AGENTS OF CHAOS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog