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
Andrea Doria begins to sink after a collision in the North Atlantic; An Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris; First ‘test-tube’ baby born; Golfer Ben Hogan dies; ‘A Chorus Line’ opens on Broadway
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Breakfast News
Judge blocks Trump asylum restrictions at US-Mexico border
Judge temporarily blocks new Arkansas anti-abortion laws
Schools that warned about lunch debt now accepting donation
As the nation’s opioid crisis grew, the pills got stronger
Oregon removes assisted suicide wait for certain patients
Fire close to nuke facilities in Idaho shifts away in wind
Now British PM, brash Boris Johnson faces Brexit conundrum
S. Korea says N. Korea fires 2 short-range missiles into sea
Ebola vaccine hampered by deep distrust in eastern Congo
Iran’s president hints at quid pro quo for seized UK ship
Prominent Russian opposition figure Navalny arrested again
Europe heat wave breaks records, mercury set to go higher
New threat to fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral: Heat wave
Frenchman to try flying across Channel on his flyboard
Breakfast Blogs
Nancy Pelosi and Her Caucus Are Slowly Moving Towards the Inevitable Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mueller’s Russia testimony exposes the depth of Donald Trump’s corruption Amanda Marcotte, Salon
Failing to Damage Mueller, GOP Now Claiming Mueller Not Sufficiently Vigorous to Oversee Trump Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Mueller Testimony. My Take. Echidne, at her blog
The Missing State Department Memo on US Officials’ Possible Aiding and Abetting Saudi War Crimes Oona Hathaway, Just Security
The Theater Critics Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Pelosi seems to be shifting on impeachment Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Loudest Thing Mueller Didn’t Say Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names