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
Lizzie Borden found innocent of a grisly double murder; Britain’s Queen Victoria begins rule; Race-related rioting hits Detroit; Muhammad Ali convicted in Vietnam War-era draft case; ‘Jaws’ premieres.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
Breakfast News
2 big US coal companies combine Wyoming, Colorado operations
Cracker Barrel bars church event over LGBT execution remarks
Push to legalize recreational pot fails in New York
Judge: New documents warrant further look at census question
FBI eyes Deutsche Bank after money-laundering report
Government fails to release data on deaths in police custody
Seattle campaign finance program gives voters $100 to donate
Turkey’s Erdogan claims ex-Egyptian president was killed
Hong Kong students issue government deadline over demands
Xi, Kim summit topics: Friendship, food aid and maybe nukes
UN health agency to remove controversial opioid guidelines
4 charged in downing of Malaysian airliner over Ukraine
UK Tory race down to 4 as rivals vie to catch Boris Johnson
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Is One of the Most Tone-Deaf Politicians in the History of Representative Government Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone Describes 67% of the Content of Sealed Warrant Affidavits for His Co-Conspirators emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
On Political Allies. In Housecleaning Echidne, at her blog
“There is something odd here” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Journalist Watchlist Raises Specter of Civil Rights-Era Secret Surveillance Linda Moon, Just Security
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency: Stop It Before It Starts Nicholas Weaver, Lawfare
Kyle Kashuv and Steven Crowder Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Climate Change: Way Too Little, Way Too Late Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ron Fournier is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
Concentration Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Last Night’s Trump Campaign Orgy The Rude Pundit, at his blog
RETURN THE ANTI-VAXXERS’ MONEY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog