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
Mohandes Gandhi born; President Woodrow Wilson suffers stroke; Thurgood Marshall sworn in as US Supreme Court justice; Rock Hudson dies; Peanuts comic strip debut.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)
Breakfast News
Drug stores trying to remove judge from US opioid litigation
Judge temporarily blocks law aimed at Trump’s tax returns
Federal judge temporarily blocks Georgia abortion law
Federal judge upholds affirmative action at Harvard
Trump administration loses bid to dismiss monument lawsuits
Pipeline rules adopted years after deadly explosion, spills
Fed-up San Francisco neighbors use rocks to block homeless
Personal firewood permits excluded from tree-cutting ban
Lizard protections sought in Southwest amid US oil boom
Cuban foreign minister: Warming with US is irreversible
India’s moves in Kashmir raise tension in part next to China
Peru thrown into constitutional crisis amid power struggle
Hong Kong protester shot as China marks its 70th anniversary
Thousands march as Catalonia marks secession vote date
Moment of truth: UK to submit ‘final offer’ for Brexit deal
Ukraine agrees to election in separatist-controlled east
European Court orders Bosnia to remove Orthodox church
Sarkozy to stand trial in illegal campaign financing case
4 EU nations seek endorsement for ‘fast-track’ migrant plan
Hurricane Lorenzo to bring 70-foot waves to Azores
Restoring forests for the sake of climate, habitats
Dazed and confused deer gets trapped in Italy’s resort shop
Breakfast Blogs
Congress Should Cut Off Trump Administration Paychecks If They Keep Stonewalling Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Is Bill Barr Already Feeding Sidney Powell So-Called Evidence Trump Coerces? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
ODNI GC Klitenic: President Has Sole Authority Over Security Clearances, But Is Not Member Of Intelligence Community Jim White, emptywheel
The New Coalition of the Willing: Against Reproductive Rights Echidne, at her blog
The president is a bloodthirsty tyrant digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Area Conservative Excuses Trump Loving Politicians. MSM Forgives and Forgets Spocko, Hullabaloo
Whistleblower 2: But His Taxes Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
There Is No Constitutional Impediment to an Impeachment Inquiry that Concerns National Security Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen, Just Security
Does Giuliani’s Work in Ukraine Violate the Appointments Clause? Ryan Scoville, Lawfare
“You are making me look like an idiot!” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Cat Litter: A History Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Beloved Sulzberger Family Pet Shits The Rug. Again. driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: That Hat Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
The Rude Pundit’s Every Other Year Anniversary Cash Grab Is On The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE RIGHT’S CIVIL WAR TALK IS MANY THINGS, BUT IT ISN’T TROLLING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Devin Nunes Sues ANOTHER Reporter Over ‘Defamatory Gist’ Of Moo-Cow Hit Piece, AGAIN Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Yay, It’s Bill Barr’s Super Cool Global Carmen-Sandiego-On-Bath-Salts Tour For Trump! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
New Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia Argued Employee Should Sh*t Herself At Work! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Mike Pompeo Just FORGOT He Was On That Ukraine Shakedown Call. Yeah, That’s The Ticket! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
It Just Got A Little Harder To Be A Horrifying Misogynist On Reddit Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette