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
Nazi Blitz on Britain begins in World War II; Mobutu Sese Seko dies; Panama Canal Treaties signed; Rapper Tupac Shakur shot; ESPN debuts; Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated; Rock star Buddy Holly born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Breakfast News
Dorian’s floodwaters trap people in attics in North Carolina
N. Carolina election tests Trump clout, suburbs’ GOP flight
Smoke, not fire, blamed for 34 deaths in dive boat disaster
Maine to allow ranked votes in general presidential election
Trump challenges California power to control auto pollution
Alaska’s hot, dry summer leads to droughts in some areas
Judge threatens to bring the heat to Texas prison officials
As feds loom, states hit Facebook, Google with new probes
In a twist, Colorado asks EPA to lower state’s air rating
Michigan funeral service held for deported Iraqi national
Governor to take Tree of Life mezuzah to Holocaust memorials
Tourists may pay tolls to drive crooked San Francisco street
Brexit crisis grows as opposition rejects snap election call
Hong Kong braces for airport protests after overnight unrest
In the Amazon, indigenous debate how to save their lands
Cracks in Saudi-UAE coalition risk new war in Yemen
‘Only animals can live here’: Storm victims await evacuation
Afghan president postpones US trip to discuss Taliban deal
H&M stops buying leather from Brazil over Amazon fires
US to allow trophy hunter to import body of rare black rhino
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Big, Dumb, Imaginary Wall Is Now Even More Important Than Free Money Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Flynn Steps in It 2.0: Emmet Sullivan Will Make Sidney Powell Explain Why She Asked to Declassify Totally Irrelevant Secrets emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Is Trump blackmailing Ukraine? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Who are the swingers? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border Wall Kate Brennan, Just Security
Heading for (Another) Ukraine-Russia Gas Fight? Steven Pifer, Lawfare
The Police: Always and Still Fascist Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Flagrant Racism of the North Carolina Gerrymander Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If at First You Don’t Succeed, Weaponize the Department of Justice DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Great job white people Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks to World: “Shut up! It’s Daddy, you shithead! Where’s my bourbon? Can’t you fucking remember anything?” driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Make Like an Alt-Man Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
University Of Alabama Dean YOU’RE FIRED For Tweeting While Black Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
David Brooks Stands Athwart History Yelling ‘BOTH SIDES!’ Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Donald Trump HEREBY ORDERS Jobs Report To Be AWESOME!!!1! Five Dollar Feminist
Boston Judge Goes Wilding On Defense Lawyer, ‘Straight Pride Parade’ Counterprotesters Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
SO WHAT MADE OUR NIHILISTS IN EXPENSIVE SUITS THE WAY THEY ARE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog