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
Christopher Columbus sets sail; Europe slides further into World War I; A Cold War case heats up Capitol Hill; Air traffic controllers in the U.S. go on strike; NBA founded; Singer Tony Bennett born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Breakfast News
NYPD judge recommends firing officer in Eric Garner death
Cummings says he scared off intruder at Baltimore home
Trump pick for national intelligence director is withdrawing
Puerto Rico governor resigns as promised; successor sworn in
US government delays Puerto Rico disaster mitigation funds
Families say Purdue Pharma must be ‘held accountable’
San Francisco curbs waste with public toilets, ‘poop patrol’
Plastic bottles sales banned at San Francisco airport
Longhorn on loose corralled by cowboy in Colorado Springs
North Korea confirms another test of rocket launcher system
Pro-EU party wins, cuts Johnson’s UK Parliament margin to 1
Uganda begins largest trial of experimental Ebola vaccine
Jesse Jackson pays homage to Roma at Auschwitz ceremony
Scientists link Europe heat wave to man-made global warming
Notre Dame: Lead fears prompt new cleanup rules, equipment
UK military drafted in to prevent dam collapse
German customs seize 4.5 tons of cocaine, worth $1.1 billion
Conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated by Hungarian doctors
Breakfast Blogs
What’s That on the Horizon? A Republican Party in Shambles. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone Points to Evidence His Witness Tampering Worked to Argue Selective Prosecution emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
If the shoe fits digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
As I predicted, dirt on Ratcliffe forced him to withdraw as DNI #ExtremeVettingFail Spocko, Hullabaloo
Irony dies 1,000 deaths Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI Justin Hendrix, Just Security
Don’t Abet Republican Bad Faith On Deficits Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks, Shield Boss driftglass, at his blog
They Aren’t Going To Work Atrios, Eschaton
The Pompitous of Love Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Golly, So Many Voter Purges After Supreme Court Declared Racism DOA! Doktor Doom. Wonkette
QAnon Way Ahead Of You With Conspiracy Theory About FBI Calling Their Conspiracy Theories A Domestic Terror Threat Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
What Are Moscow Mitch’s Old Staffers Doing In This Story About Kentucky’s Russian Aluminums? That’s Weird! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
WHY PUNDITS LIKE MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog