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
Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s author Dr. Seuss dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.
Breakfast News
California utility cuts power to 21,000 customers
Tribal complaints prompt national park to stop selling pipes
Appeals court weighs challenges to Trump abortion rule
Judge tosses lawsuit challenging Md. conversion therapy ban
Lawsuit calls for full public view of executions in Virginia
GM strike in 2nd week: Some progress but no end in sight
Coral die-off predicted as marine heat wave engulfs Hawaii
UK, France Germany blame Iran for Saudi oil attacks
‘You are failing us’: Plans, frustration at UN climate talks
Hundreds of thousands stranded as travel agency collapses
Dutch reinforce major dike as seas rise, climate changes
Johnson says he’ll tell Trump: Hands off UK health service
Macron urges French climate protesters to target Poland
5 EU nations reach temporary deal on rescued migrants
Breakfast Blogs
Treason Doesn’t Require an Enemy at War Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Press Cannot Let Trump Pretend He Gives a Shit about Corruption emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
ODNI Whistleblower Complaint: The Next ConFraudUS? [UPDATED] Rayne, emptywheel
This Ukraine timeline is damning digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“Relentless Attacks Against Trump” tristero, Hullabaloo
Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer Wants to Put Constituent in Jail For Posting A Note Spocko, Hullabaloo
If the Party of Trump had any integrity Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The “Quid” is a Crime: No Need to Prove “Pro Quo” in Ukrainegate Paul Seamus Ryan, Just Security
Just How Outrageous Was the Lewandowski Hearing? Margaret Taylor, Lawfare
Propaganda works Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in the Sixth Extinction Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s Lawlessness All the Way Down DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Age Cannot Wither Him, nor Custom Stale His Infinite Treachery driftglass, at his blog
Government of men Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Trump Only F*cked That Ukrainian Chicken Because He Loves America So Much Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Yeah, It’s Now O’Clock Time For Pelosi & Democrats To Impeach President Treason Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Greta Thunberg Seeing Donald Trump At UN: More Carrie Or Firestarter? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
DOES TRUMP WANT TO BE IMPEACHED? Steve M., No more Mister Nice Blog