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 U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor, bringing America closer to war with Spain; The Soviet Union’s last troops leave Afghanistan; Astronomer Galileo and suffragist Susan B. Anthony born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Breakfast News
Trump administration sued over shift in asylum policy
Racketeering lawsuit by Dakota Access developer dismissed
Feds requiring regional response teams to oil train wrecks
Amazon dumps NYC headquarters and its promised 25,000 jobs
Judge to weigh fight over citizenship question on US census
Storm creates chaos in California with flooding, mudslides
UK’s May suffers embarrassing defeat on Brexit strategy
Venezuelan prosecutor to investigate Guaido appointments
North Korea exploring sanctions-proof energy technologies
Egypt lawmakers approve possible 3-decade rule by president
Pence urges Europe to quit Iran deal, stop busting sanctions
Breakfast Blogs
Memo to Wisconsin Republicans: Civil Rights Figures Are Always ‘Controversial.’ That’s the Point. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Unseen Aspects of Paul Manafort’s Lies and Truth-Telling Are as Telling as the Ones We’ve Seen emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Here’s a real emergency digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
With the republic in peril… Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Will Executive Privilege Block Congress’ Access to Trump-Putin Helsinki Meeting Notes? Andy Wright, Just Security
Trump Screws Contractors, But Why Didn’t Democrats Do More To Defend Them? Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“emergency powers are consistent with free government only when their control is lodged elsewhere than in the Executive who exercises them” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The real national emergency Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Real Emergency Has Nothing to Do with the Border The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Word to the Wise Guys Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
A DEFEAT FOR TRICKLE-UP ECONOMICS IN QUEENS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog