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
A golden spike completes America’s first transcontinental railroad; Nazis burn books in Germany; Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland; Nelson Mandela takes office in S. Africa; U2’s frontman Bono born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.
Breakfast News
A growing number of states call porn a public health crisis
For thousands of asylum seekers, all they can do is wait
Chelsea Manning released from jail on contempt charge
New budget proposal tackles homelessness in California
Revived proposal for new oil, gas drilling in California
Judge refuses to block subpoenas sent over teacher sickouts
Officials: Coal to keep sliding as renewables, gas fill gap
Officials seek to open major spillway on Mississippi River
US military veteran sues after twice being denied a passport
Descendants honor Chinese workers on railroad’s 150th year
Baby giraffe at Seattle zoo gets therapeutic shoes
US and Palestinians clash over US plan for peace with Israel
N. Korea fires 2 suspected missiles in possible new warning
US seizes North Korean ship amid tense moment in relations
EU urges Iran to respect nuclear deal, regrets US sanctions
US sanctions to hit Iran’s metals industry, a major employer
South Africa’s ruling ANC holds onto lead in national vote
Venezuela’s Maduro tightens pressure on opposition
China vows retaliation if Trump raises tariffs
Notre Dame’s melted roof leaves astronomical lead levels
Breakfast Blogs
The Anti-Abortion Nuts Are Playing for Keeps This Time Around Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The cult within the cult digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Alabama Is Our New Future tristero, Hulabaloo
Con men and con women Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Iran Nuclear Deal After Rouhani’s Announcement Tess Bridgeman, Just Security
The Executive Branch Escalates Its Clash With Congress Margaret Taylor, Lawfare
This is the Future Republicans Want Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Among schoolchildren Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Customers over Workers Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Mmoney
Rubio, McConnell and the Party of Ritual Cognitive Mutilation driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Southern Strategy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMP DOESN’T NEED TO WAG THE DOG OVERSEAS BECAUSE HE’S ALREADY STARTED WARS AT HOME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog