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
Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Breakfast News
More than 1,000 rescues, evacuations as Imelda soaks Texas
Feds reverse decision ending immigrant medical relief
US vaping illnesses top 500, Missouri man is 8th death
US expels 2 Cuban diplomats, citing ‘influence operations’
Stage set in Nevada as Earthlings arrive for Area 51 events
Court halts timber activity in Southwest over threatened owl
At 98, D-Day vet jumps again, with eyes on the big 100
Iran envoy: ‘All-out war’ to result if hit for Saudi attack
Canada’s Trudeau comes under fire over brownface photo
Global climate protests start in Australia before UN summit
UK top court aims to rule next week on Parliament shutdown
Hurricane rips roofs, cuts power in Bermuda, but no deaths
Breakfast Blogs
What Recourse Does the Republic Have in a Situation Like This? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
ODNI Whistleblower Complaint: Shoes Dropping All Over the Place [UPDATE-2] Rayne, emptywheel
“Foreign corruption inducing treason was the core impeachable offense in the eyes of the authors of the Constitution” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“He got away with it until he didn’t.” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Rules and Norms in the Trump Presidency: The Risks and Rewards of ‘Playing It Straight’ on the Inside Bob Bauer, Lawfare
If the President Does It Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ukraine DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How much are we supposed to take? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Remembering How Trump and the Right Tried to Convince Everyone Obama Was a Traitor The Rude Pundit, at his blog
A Second Thought Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WHY AREN’T DEMOCRATS BACKING MARIANNE WILLIAMSON? BECAUSE WE DON’T THINK LIKE REPUBLICANS. Steve M., No More Mister nice Blog