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
Actress Marilyn Monroe dies; Cornerstone laid for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal; ‘American Bandstand’ debuts on network TV; Actors Richard Burton and Alec Guinness die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We’ve got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony.
Breakfast News
2 mass shootings in less than 24 hours shock US; 29 killed
Blackjewel’s coal assets sold at auction; hearing Monday
2 people bitten by sharks minutes apart at Florida beach
Historically wet US Northwest faces growing wildfire threat
Water in Hawaii volcano could trigger explosive eruptions
Kashmir tensions intensify amid India-Pakistan skirmishes
Sudanese protesters sign power-sharing deal with military
Report: Iran seizes tanker carrying ‘smuggled fuel’ in Gulf
40 rescued migrants brought to Malta; 123 more still at sea
France drafts law to extend IVF to lesbians, single women
Breakfast Blogs
It’s Just That Kind of Morning. It’s Morning in America. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Parts of the Mueller Report withheld from Roger Stone Show the Centrality of His WikiLeaks Activities to Trump’s Obstruction emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump’s war on people of color has many fronts digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Right’s Extreme Narcissism tristero, Hullabaloo
President “body bags”? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Where do lone wolf mentally ill mass murders get their ideas about a Hispanic invasion? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 519 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today In Both Sides Do It: Hugh Hewitt driftglass, at his blog
Horse race stuff Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Guest Post: The Four Politicians Who Really Need to Go Back to Where They Came From (Part 1) posted by The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Everything Is Terrible And We Could Use Some Nice Things Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
RIGHT-WINGERS BELIEVE THAT ALL MASS SHOOTINGS ARE THE FAULT OF DEMOCRATS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog