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
Warren Commission concludes Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in JFK’s assassination; Taliban captures Afghanistan’s capital; First steam locomotive to haul passengers; ‘The Tonight Show’ premieres
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.
Breakfast News
‘OK’ hand gesture, ‘Bowlcut’ added to hate symbols database
Judge: Michigan adoption agencies can turn away LGBT couples
GM reverses course, says strikers will keep health coverage
Tree-cutting ban in Southwest forests hurts heating needs
Trump hotel keeps liquor license despite character complaint
Tennessee’s abortion waiting period trial goes to judge
NY could add menthol to flavor ban as vaping groups sue
Walmart to reopen store on Nov. 6 where massacre happened
Southern drought deepens; 11 million affected
New California lab seeks cure to deadly citrus disease
Stomp and squish: Pennsylvanians battle ‘nightmare’ bugs
Japan sees NKorea missile, China space activity as threat
Town hall speakers rebuke Lam for Hong Kong protest response
UK leader Johnson faces backlash over confrontational tone
Thousands in New Zealand start 2nd wave of climate protests
US deploys air defense systems, troops to Saudi Arabia
Ex-French President Chirac, who stood up to US, dies at 86
Israel’s Netanyahu begins coalition hunt amid deadlock
Naval base in Syria cements Russia’s Mediterranean foothold
Radar installed to better watch unstable Mont Blanc glacier
5.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Istanbul, 8 slightly injured
Earthquake shakes eastern Indonesia, kills at least 20
Breakfast Blogs
Adam Schiff Is Taking the Lead on Ukraine, and There’s a Reason for That Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Intelligence Issues the House Intelligence Committee Largely Ignored emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
In The Year Of the Whistle-Blower. Or How The Game Is Played. Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s Ukraine obsession? Cui bono? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
This is Serious tristero, Hullabaloo
The iron is hot Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Whistleblower Says White House Took Unusual Steps to Limit Access to Ukraine Call Record Kate Brannen, Just Security
Wall Street Democrats threaten to back Trump if Warren nominated Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Use that evidence, race it around [Update] Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Magical Thinking is Not Actually Helpful Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 553 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Attempting to extort one Ukrainian president may be regarded as a misfortune, Mr. Worthing.. Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THERE’LL BE STIFF COMPETITION FOR THE WORST IMPEACHMENT COLUMN, BUT WE HAVE AN EARLY FRONT-RUNNER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
The Federalist Doth Accuse Goody Greta Thunberg And Other ‘Climate Worshipers’ Of WITCHCRAFT Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump GRRRR SO MAD! Let’s Read The Whistleblower Complaint That’s Making Him GRRRR SO MAD! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Bill Barr Is Knee Deep In Sh*t. And So Is White House Counsel Pat Cipollone. Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette