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
Richard Nixon gives his ‘Checkers’ speech; Rome’s Augustus Caesar born; Lewis and Clark finish trek to America’s West; Psychologist Sigmund Freud dies; Musicians Ray Charles and Bruce Springsteen born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You can’t have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can’t get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.
Breakfast News
US police assess rise in threat tips after 3 mass killings
Pence takes first motorcade on Michigan’s Mackinac Island
Area 51 festival wraps up in Nevada; Earthlings head home
Tour company Thomas Cook collapses, global bookings canceled
‘Deficit of trust’: At UN, leaders of a warming world gather
Arab lawmakers in Israel endorse Gantz for prime minister
Boris Johnson heads to UN, urging world to see beyond Brexit
Nobel laureate starts fund for survivors of sexual violence
Albania quake has 340 aftershocks, people afraid to go home
Beer flows as overcrowded Oktoberfest opens in Munich
Breakfast Blogs
Betsy DeVos Knows Nothing About Education, and Less About Human Beings Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On The Dangers Of Inadvertent Plagiarism
Another fine mess he’s gotten us into digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Running the military like a business. How much are the Saudis paying? Spocko, Hullabaloo
What the Latest Reports Say About the Whistleblower Complaint. Robert S. Litt, Lawfare
Trump as “Replacement-Level Fox News Junkie” DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Worst American Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How Mitch McConnell May Have Given Us America’s Most Progressive President Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Longer David Brooks: Moderate Utopia Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WELCOME TO A PREVIEW OF YOUR PRESIDENCY, JOE BIDEN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog