The Breakfast Club (Running)

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.

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This Day in History

First U.S. Presidential Election; Clinton goes on trial in Senate; Khmer Rouge overthrown; Emperor Hirohito dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Running away will never make you free.

Kenny Loggins

Breakfast News

Huge trash-collecting boom in Pacific Ocean breaks apart

Count finds sharp drop in monarch butterflies in California

California highway closed by mudslides, more rain coming

Spain rescues 549 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean

UK leader May: Brexit critics risk damaging UK democracy

Food bloggers bring Africa’s rich cuisines to the world

Breakfast Blogs

The President* Is More Than a Few Sandwiches Short of a Picnic Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

On Narrating Donald Trump: “Shoot me like I’m shot on ‘The Apprentice’” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The misinformation flow is becoming a gusher digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

How to stop friends fighting over the 2020 President picks Spocko, Hullabaloo

If they don’t think it’s broke, they won’t fix it Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Everybody Knows That The Boat is Leaking driftglass, at his blog

President on Strike Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

ARE RIGHT-WING POPULISTS ACTUALLY BECOMING POPULIST? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog