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
A key ruling during the Watergate scandal; Nixon and Khrushchev hold a ‘kitchen debate’ during the Cold War; Brigham Young and Mormon followers arrive in present-day Utah; Apollo 11’s crew returns home.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.
Breakfast News
GOP, Dems offer compromise to reduce drug costs for seniors
Georgia abortion law foes seek to keep it from taking effect
Civil Rights panel: Disabled students of color punished more
Immigration roundup that targeted 2,100 nets 35 arrests
FDA warns top marijuana company for making CBD health claims
Deadly 2018 Amtrak crash caused by safety oversights, delays
Trump sues House panel, NY to protect state tax returns
Planetary Society’s solar sail appears to deploy properly
Sweet mess: Syrup spills at edge of French Quarter
Southern California nest cam eagle flies for 1st time
Boris Johnson chosen as new UK leader, now faces Brexit test
Opposition rallies as Venezuela blackout eases in some areas
Trump threatens Guatemala after its court blocks asylum deal
Ukraine president’s party gets solid parliament majority
Acting Spain PM fails in first chance to form government
Breakfast Blogs
Chuck Schumer Is Not a Wartime Consigliere Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Robert Mueller Asked To Be Instructed To Hew To the Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Back Pain, Heat And The Male Gaze In Art Echidne, at her blog
Three little questions digby aka Heather Digby Parton. Hullabaloo
Portrait of the Special Prosecutor tristero, Hullabaloo
The only thing we have to fear is no excitement Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Mueller Hearing Risks Narrowing the Range of Impeachable Offenses Ryan Goodman and John T. Nelson, Just Security
Department of Homeland Security Expands Expedited Removal Designation Vishnu Kannan, Lawfare
All the Indispensable Men Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Amy Wax and white supremacy Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A Naught at the Museum driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Where’s My Article 2, Dude? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Impeachment Is Not Just About Mueller The Rude Pundit, at his blog