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
Colonists go ashore in Virginia to set up Jamestown; Lewis and Clark begin to explore Louisiana Territory; Israel founded; Skylab launched; Movie producer George Lucas born; Singer Frank Sinatra dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Breakfast News
Jury: Monsanto to pay $2 billion in weed killer cancer case
Public safety, civil rights groups battle over face ID tech
Planes, buses moving migrants from crowded border shelters
Escalating US-China trade war sends stocks plunging
Judge blocks release of Coast Guard officer called terrorist
Amnesty International: China-owned NYC building denies lease
US measles cases still climbing, topping 800 for year
Noisy Yellowstone geyser roars back to life after 3 years
Tankers reported damaged off UAE on major oil trade route
Violence, poverty reign in Honduran city where caravans form
Power play: Papal aide’s manhole act angers Italy’s Salvini
Sweden to reopen rape case against WikiLeaks’ Assange
Arms control a top issue at Russia-US talks Tuesday in Sochi
Albania protesters hurl flaming objects after calls for calm
France, New Zealand to launch a call to end online extremism
Denied graves by Nazis, resistance fighters finally buried
Breakfast Blogs
The Great Patriotic Trade War Rages On, Even If the President* Doesn’t Know What a Tariff Is Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
A Tale of Three (Former) Mueller Dockets emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Sweden Reopens Assange Rape Case bmaz, emptywheel
They must act digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Orban and Anti-Semitism tristero, Hullabaloo
A political divorce Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Right wing politicians want you to know that Jews will not replace them Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Daydream Believing Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Mooney
Literary Corner: Trade Wars Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
HOW HARD IS IT TO IMAGINE ARMED AMERICANS ATTACKING DOCTORS IN A MEDICAL CRISIS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog