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
President Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky scandal aired on TV; Authors H.G. Wells and Stephen King born; ‘Monday Night Football’ premieres; Actor-comedian Bill Murray born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
Breakfast News
Houston area sees relief, rescues after Imelda leaves 4 dead
23 states sue Trump to keep California’s auto emission rules
Goodbye, Three Mile Island: Remaining reactor shuts down
Gulf Coast seafood biz slammed by freshwater from floods
Tennessee’s abortion wait period law faces court arguments
Revelers reach gates of Area 51 then peacefully rejoin party
History buff finds ships that sank in 1878 in Lake Michigan
Milwaukee zoo visitors get first glimpse of red panda cub
Trudeau’s support holds after apology for wearing brownface
Saudis show media scorched, shrapnel-blasted oil facility
A year in the ice: Scientists set sail on Arctic expedition
‘I want a future’: Global youth protests urge climate action
Cubans wait hours in gas lines as fuel crisis bites
Hurricane Lorena threatens Mexico’s resort-studded Baja
German government agrees $60 billion climate policy package
Breakfast Blogs
Check Out Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution. Trump Went Two Out of Three. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Minority Report: Ukraine as Bugbear Rayne, emptywheel
A Primer on Pragmatism: Method Ed Walker, emptywheel
This observation by Politico spells it out pretty well digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Just Wait tristero, Hullabaloo
He, Trump Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
President Trump, We Can Handle the Truth Kate Brennan, Just Security
The Witness and the Whistleblower: Some Thoughts Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
But I ask you, what is a contract? Webster’s defines it as “An agreement under the law which is unbreakable” “Which is unbreakable” Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Making The Executive Unitary For the First Time Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 549 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
29 Years Ago Today driftglass, at his blog
Third Thoughts: Narratology Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
David Brooks Knows Who Killed America: Elizabeth Warren, In The White House, With A Plan Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Trump: NO UKRAINE CRIMES! NO UKRAINE CRIMES! OK Here Are My Ukraine Crimes. Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Trump Has Secret Plan To Steal MORE Money From Troops For WALL Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
IMAGINE THERE’S NO CORPORATE POWER — IT’S EASY IF YOU TRY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog