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
Chinese troops crush a pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square; World War II’s Battle of Midway begins; Henry Ford tests his quadricycle; Bruce Springsteen releases ‘Born in the U.S.A.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We don’t have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
Breakfast News
APNewsBreak: Ex-governor’s phone seized in Flint water probe
Judge rejects Congress’ challenge of border wall funding
More states sue opioid maker alleging deceptive marketing
Transgender asylum seeker dies after release from US custody
Businessman named in Mueller probe faces child porn charge
New York governor says legal marijuana not likely this year
Navajo Code Talker has died; William Tully Brown was 96
Jimmy Carter awarded tenure at Emory University at age 94
Austria swears in first female chancellor, pledges stability
35 dead as Sudan troops move against democracy protesters
Case of US man held as spy in Russia stalls without answers
US aircraft carrier deployed over Iran remains outside Gulf
Swedish court rules not to extradite Assange for rape probe
Future in doubt for Merkel’s German govt after ally quits
Chasing demons: 75 years on, D-Day haunts, drives its vets
Missing Lewis Chessman found, could fetch $1M at auction
Breakfast Blogs
These Conservative Intellectuals Can Go Hash Things Out on Some Desert Island While the Rest of Us Fix the Country Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
BREAKING: Roger Stone Insists Russia Hacked the DNC emptwheel aka Marc Wheeler, emptywheel
Mitch and Elaine, top oligarchs of the Trump era digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Moving public opinion or waiting for it? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Missing Bill Barr Obstruction Analysis David R. Lurie, Just Security
Jared, Call the FBI Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare
A New Innovation in Centrist Ideology: A President Cannot Be Impeached If He Was Elected Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Centrism is just as political as communism or fascism or any other ism Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
George Will Is Several of Oldest Land Mammals You’ll Ever Meet driftglass, at his blog
Sanctions. I Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DOES TRUMP WEAR ILL-FITTING CLOTHES BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IN EUGENICS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog