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 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is first published; Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America; ‘Chicago Seven’ defendants in court; Dale Earnhardt, Senior dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Breakfast News
School board in Virginia may end transgender bathroom ban
Judge bars immigration policing criteria for 2 grants
Hearing into unresolved US House race could find winner
Groups: ICE detainees in Boston jail go on hunger strike
Dog reunited with owner after 8 month, 175-mile journey
7 right whale calves spotted in Florida’s Atlantic waters
In Brexit limbo, UK veers between high anxiety, grim humor
China’s leaders want more babies, but local officials resist
Iran pressures Europe to do more to save the nuclear deal
Polish PM cancels Israel visit amid new Holocaust tensions
Does Catalan crisis threaten to make Spain ‘ungovernable’?
Breakfast Blogs
Bill Weld Has What Any Republican Needs to Primary Trump: He Doesn’t Give a Damn Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone and the Dozens of Search Warrants on Accounts Used to Facilitate the Transfer and Promotion of Stolen Democratic Emails emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Trumpergency Speech. Or The National Emergency Which Isn’t National. Echidne, at her blog
“What did you do when the Taliban came? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
On a scale of Trump Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The National Emergency and the President’s Lawyers Bob Bauer, Lawfare
The Authenticity Police Live Inside Their Own Ass Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Professional Zombie Plague Weaponizer Decries All These Zombies driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: The Rhetoric of Emergency Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
SHOULD WE REALLY ASSUME THAT VOTERS IN TRUMP COUNTRY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog