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
Tonkin Gulf incident sparks U.S. escalation of the Vietnam War; Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Kuwait; JFK’s PT-109 boat sunk; President Warren G. Harding dies; ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok killed in Deadwood.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.
Breakfast News
Puerto Ricans have no idea who will be new governor Friday
Gunmaker asks US Supreme Court to hear Sandy Hook appeal
Manhattan DA subpoenas Trump Org over hush money payments
Medical marijuana cleared for release to Louisiana patients
Justice Department declines to prosecute Comey over memos
Texas joins states’ lawsuit to block T-Mobile-Sprint deal
Judge blocks copper mine project in Arizona national forest
North Korea fires projectiles in 3rd weapons test in 8 days
Walloped by heat wave, Greenland sees massive ice melt
Saudi changes allow women to travel without male consent
Japan OKs removing South Korea from preferred trade status
Boris Johnson’s Conservatives face test in special election
Bank of England says Brexit uncertainties ‘more entrenched’
Wildfires spread in remote Siberia, Russian Far East
Poland remembers failed 1944 revolt against Germans
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Is the Product of a Democratic Party That Was Terrified of Ronald Reagan Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Ongoing Question of Trump’s (and His Flunkies’) Susceptibility to Compromise by Russia emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The grotesque sadism of Lindsey Graham digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Round 2 or Final Jeopardy? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Secrecy Undermines Mueller and the Defense of Democracy Jefferson Morley, Just Security
Booker Is More Liberal Than His Reputation Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who should be in the next Democratic debate? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 518 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Once Upon a Time on Hollywood Squares… driftglass, at his blog
Mr. Bret blames the Democrats Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
No Immunity For Cops Who Arrested A Man For Creating A Facebook Page Mocking The Police Department Tim Cushing, Techdirt
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN TRIES TO TELL DEMOCRATS HOW TO BE DEMOCRATS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog