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
Malcolm X assassinated; President Richard Nixon visits China; Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart makes a tearful confession; Steve Fossett is the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
Breakfast News
‘Excessive fines’ ban applies to states, Supreme Court says
High court rules for retired US marshal in W.Va. tax dispute
Bill would let patients buy cheaper insulin from other countries
Pennsylvania must replace voting machines, lawmakers told
GOP candidate’s son had concerns about political operative
Wisconsin governor vetoes tax plan; early showdown with GOP
Oklahoma Legislature hurries gun carry bill to new governor
Florida governor wants to import drugs from Canada
Muslim group seeks congressional probe on terror watchlist
50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites
Thanks in a tank: WWII gunner, now 95, gets a nostalgic ride
Putin sternly warns US against putting missiles in Europe
Britain urges Germany to ease curbs on arms sales to Saudi
Microsoft detects hacking targeting Europe democracy groups
UK’s May, EU chief call latest Brexit talks ‘constructive’
Aid wars: US-Russia vie to ease Venezuelan crisis
French court hits Swiss bank UBS with $5.1 billion penalty
Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future
German court declares man unfit to carry a gun after his dog shot him
Breakfast Blogs
This Administration* Is Arguing With Itself About Climate Change Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Questions to Ask before Reporting a BREAKING Mueller Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
If he’s innocent, shouldn’t the president order the Mueller Report to be made public? digby aka heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Heavier, thicker and fouler Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Unpacking (Some of) the Legal Issues Surrounding Hoda Muthana Steve Vladeck. Just Security
Deposed Times Public Editor On the Corruption of CNN Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Brian Stelter Defends The Commission driftglass, at his blog
Pie Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Suffer and Die Alone, Paul Manafort
MEDIA: FEEL THE MIGHTY POWER OF DONALD TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog