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
William Jennings Bryan gives his ‘Cross of Gold’ speech; Britain’s Princess Elizabeth engaged; Boxer Mike Tyson punished for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear; Actor Tom Hanks born; Actor Rod Steiger dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Breakfast News
Big earthquakes raise interest in West Coast warning system
Judge strikes down rule requiring drug ads to reveal prices
Seeking unity, Pelosi calls for bill to protect migrant kids
Top Dems invite champion US women’s soccer team to Capitol
House panel releases written answers from ex-Trump official
Iran breaches key uranium enrichment limit in nuclear deal
UAE draws down troops in Yemen in ‘strategic redeployment’
Greece creditors say no changes in bailout terms for new PM
Rights group calls Duterte’s drug war crime against humanity
Saudi carrier cancels troubled Boeing 737 order for Airbus
Breakfast Blogs
Nancy Pelosi Is Listening to the Wrong People Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Steele Dossier and the Mueller Investigation: Michael Cohen emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, empthwheel
On Privilege As Initially Defined: Jeffrey Epstein And Private Law Echidne, at her blog
The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse works hard for his money digb aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Counsels of the sages Tom Sullivan, Esquire Politics
Nancy Pelosi Has Chosen Her War, and It’s With Her Own Party’s Future Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept
An Article III judge can afford to be made to look ridiculous Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sing Jeffrey Sing Paul Campos, Lawyers, guns and Money
Centrism: Like Strontium-90 In The Milk, Ctd driftglass, at his blog
EASIEST PREDICTION I EVER MADE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog