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 shooting rampage takes place at the University of Texas clock tower; Germany declares war on Russia in World War I; Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics; Author Herman Melville born; MTV debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The religious fundamentalists of the Republican party are a mirror image of the religious fundamentalists of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.
Breakfast News
Judge blocks IRS rule to halt nonprofit donor disclosures
Georgia Power orders nuclear fuel for newly designed reactor
Utah’s medical pot distribution, growing plans face scrutiny
Groups sue for information on Arctic refuge lease sale
Advocates: ‘Horrible deja vu’ in continued family separation
Arizona asks for US Supreme Court involvement in opioid case
Puerto Rico braces for clashes over island’s next leader
Organizers finally cancel troubled Woodstock 50 festival
Moscow couple shaken but defiant after police crackdown
North Korea says it tested crucial new rocket launch system
Boris Johnson visits Belfast as Brexit woes hurt UK economy
Israel approves Palestinian construction in West Bank
UAE and Iran hold rare talks in Tehran on maritime security
2nd person dies from Ebola in Congo’s city of Goma
Bangladesh grapples with country’s worst dengue outbreak
English Heritage tests video review tech for jousting
Breakfast Blogs
Russia Is Full of Environmental Time Bombs. So Is Detroit. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Federal Judge Destroys the Hopes of RICO Salvation in DNC Lawsuit emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Resistance to impeachment is shrinking digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Beige is the new blue — Democratic moderates Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
If Trump is impeached, will Moscow Mitch even hold a trial? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Golden Parachutes Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Left Was Right About the Right All Along: Part Infinity driftglass, at his blog
Hi It’s Stupid: Medicare For All Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Medicare For All Vs. The Unions Is Some Made-Up Nonsense Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
House Republicans All Quitting Congress Now, Something Something DEMS IN DISARRAY! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
STOP TRYING TO MAKE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON HAPPEN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog