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
Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act; Anthrax tainted letters sent to NBC and the New York Post.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
Breakfast News
Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda
Migrants say they face danger before court in Texas tents
Purdue Pharma to stay in business as bankruptcy unfolds
Progress reported in contract talks between GM, union
Hundreds of Oklahoma inmates may be released under new law
Mississippi researchers nurse, study rare injured whale
Israel’s Netanyahu appears to suffer setback in exit polls
High drama at UK Supreme Court in Brexit challenge case
US, Belarus mend diplomatic ties with return of ambassadors
Spain to hold fresh elections in November
Mediterranean migrant rescues, deaths; French camp emptied
Renzi splits Italy’s Democrats, shaking govt coalition
South Korea culls pigs after confirming African swine fever
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Was Born for the Galivants Ferry Stump Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
About that Intelligence whistleblower — this is very, very bad digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Maybe it’s the gender balance? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Unpacking the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Complaint Robert S. Litt, Lawfare
Trump Foreign Policy is Self-Defeating, Multilateralism Edition DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Republicans Pack Court to Undermine Rights of LGBT People Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
UAW Strike Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A Thing I Wrote 14 Years Ago driftglass, at his blog
A Pious Fraud Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Elizabeth Warren Is Not Afraid Doktor Zoom. Wonkette
Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Will Take Trump’s Tax Returns Now, Because THIS IS NEW YORK, BITCH Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
The ‘Saudi 9/11’ Was Called ‘9/11,’ You Stupid Trump A-Holes Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Even Lindsey Graham Hates White Power Judicial Nominee Pud Steven Menashi Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
THE VIEW FROM THE CROUCH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog