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
An armistice ends the Korean War; A House panel votes to impeach President Richard Nixon; A pipe bomb explodes at the Atlanta Olympics; The deposed Shah of Iran and comedian Bob Hope die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
Breakfast News
Puerto Ricans savor governor’s resignation, chart new course
Tribe at center of pipeline protests launches solar farm
Georgia election officials accused of destroying evidence
Appeals court vacates key Atlantic Coast Pipeline permit
Judge reduces $2B award in Monsanto Roundup case to $87M
US cyberbullying is rising, and girls are bearing the brunt
Black rag dolls meant to be abused are pulled from stores
Grasshoppers on the go make migratory stop in Las Vegas area
PM Boris Johnson’s agenda raises UK election speculation
Iranians manage to surf the web despite tide of censorship
Hong Kong protesters take their cause to airport arrivals
Romania says Russian military equipment for Serbia blocked
oo many in Congo’s Ebola outbreak are dying at home
Heat, then hail: Weather and travel woes hit Britain, France
New UK official’s office rules: No metric, ‘very’ or ‘got’
Breakfast Blogs
Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The 18th Warrant Application against Roger Stone Investigated Hacking emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Will Your Vote Count in 2020? Will It Be Counted? Echidne, at her blog
Meanwhile in Bizarroworld, the GOPers find a “smoking gun” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
In a Dictatorship, Journalism’s A Piece o’ Cake tristero, Hullabaloo
Epstein Found Injured in Jail. Suicide Attempt? Or Attempted “Suicide?” Spocko, Hullabaloo
Conviction, not division Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Congress Can Access the Legal Powers of Impeachment Without a Formal Inquiry Ryan Goodman and John T. Nelson, Hullabaloo
The gerontocracy Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 515 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
For the Record: The Impeachment Agnostic Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names