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
Three civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi; John Hinckley, Jr. found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others; Britain’s Prince William born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Breakfast News
Controversial telescope to be built on sacred Hawaiian peak
California Assembly committee backs vaccine exemption law
Maine Legislature pulls all-nighter, passes pot sales rules
Walmart to pay $282 million over foreign corruption charges
Storms bring tornadoes, floods, power outages across the US
Gee whiz: Testing of sewage confirms rise in marijuana use
Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt in runoff for UK prime minister
Mexico, El Salvador to cooperate on reducing migration
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ef issues stiff ‘no-deal’ Brexit warning
Pig disease spreading in Asia as nations struggle to stop it
Endangered rhinos ready to be sent from Europe to Rwanda
Mother sperm whale and baby dead in fishing net off Italy
Russia to release 100 illegally captured whales
Breakfast Blogs
Government Is Best When It’s Closest to the People (Their Pockets Are Easier to Pick) Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Konstantin Kilimnik Shared Stolen Data Laundered Through Bannon’s Propaganda with State Department emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“Don’t worry about it, I’ll just figure it out” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Challenging America’s slave legacy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
History through Virginia Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The centrist delusion Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Shuffleboard Lane Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMP: WAR IS HARD! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog