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
Britain’s Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer; Italy’s fascist dictator Benito Mussolini born; President Dwight Eisenhower signs an act creating NASA; Artist Vincent Van Gogh dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.
Breakfast News
Woman set to replace Puerto Rico’s governor doesn’t want job
Mississippi River city ponders a wall it has long rejected
Plan halted to house migrant kids at Oklahoma Army base
Documents detail probe of man charged with aiding migrants
Catholic charities tested by abuse scandals, border crisis
Nearly 1,400 detained in Moscow protest; largest in decade
Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at Hong Kong protesters
Diplomats recommit to saving Iran deal, oppose US sanctions
Syria keeps up deadly bombardment of rebel-held town
Romanian leader floats harsher penalties for murder, rape
Breakfast Blogs
Here’s Another ‘Precarious Legal Situation’ to Avoid a Presidential* Tantrum Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
There Are More Charges Pending for George Nader or an Accomplice emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Ahab As Randian Hero Ed Walker, emptywheel
How To Play The Political Game Trump Started With The Cummings Tweets Echidne, at her blog
The Democrats don’t need any more information to impeach President Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
What dirt will journalists find on DNI nominee Ratcliffe? Spocko. Hulabaloo
Shorter Maureen Dowd tristero, Hullabaloo
Staring into the abyss Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Bipartisan Agreement on Election Security—And a Partisan Fight Anyway Scott R. Anderson, Eugenia Lostri, Quinta Jurecic, and Margaret Taylor, Just Security
Fascists on the Border Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Campus PC is out of control Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Another Brick in the Wall Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Brooks sights the rare White Democrat Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Better Press Corps, Please (Mueller Edition) Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog