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
Nine black students escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School; President Woodrow Wilson collapses; Author William Faulkner born; TV’s Barbara Walters and movie actor-producer Michael Douglas born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Breakfast News
US official expects ‘hundreds more’ cases of vaping illness
Massachusetts temporarily banning sale of vaping products
Huge nature reserve shrinks bison plan after pushback
TVA holds meetings to build public trust in coal ash storage
Puerto Rico braces for flooding, landslides from Karen
Deported Army veteran returns to US in bid to become citizen
Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal
Pakistan PM warns of war with India over disputed Kashmir
Google wins case over EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ rules
Furor over Trump puts Ukraine’s leader in a tough spot
Ocean Viking docks in Sicily, disembarks migrants
Breakfast Blogs
Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Announcement Was a Moment of Constitutional Leadership Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Trenga’s Bijan Kian Decision May Hurt, Not Help, Mike Flynn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Impeachment. Take #238. Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s impeachment tantrum can’t hide that he screwed the pooch digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
So What? tristero, Hullabaloo
They’re running the same play again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
An Unaccountable Office Crafted a Secret Law to Conceal the Whistleblower Complaint Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
The Swiftboating of Joe Biden Viola Gienger and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Getting to the Bottom of the (Attempted) McCabe Prosecution Scott R. Anderson and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
The Ongoing Adventures of Hugh Hewitt: The Republican Cyborg Sent From The Future to Destroy America (™) driftglass, at his blog
Got Paranoia? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Let’s Do This Impeachment Thing The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Trump SCAAAAAAARED Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Breaking New York Times Scoop: Trump Doesn’t Care If Journalists Live Or Die Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
WE MIGHT HAVE IMPEACHMENT NOW BECAUSE THEY FOUND A WAY TO MAKE IT CENTRIST Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog