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
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated in New York; Benito Mussolini takes control of the Italian government; The Cuban Missile Crisis ends; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and actress Julia Roberts are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
Breakfast News
Ferocious winds fuel blazes throughout Northern California
Activists ask NBC to release NDAs, hold independent probe
Frustrated Democratic governors find ways to sidestep GOP
Critics gear up for response to lease sale in Arctic refuge
Kansas City voters to decide if King Boulevard will stay
John Conyers, longest serving black congressman, dies at 90
Fire-ravaged forests get help from pine cone collectors
Chess move: UK parties suggest Dec. 9 vote in Brexit gambit
Colombia’s capital city of Bogota elects first female mayor
Ex-communists win German state vote but far right surges
Hong Kong weekend ends again with protest violence, tear gas
Iraqi protesters hold Baghdad square after night of clashes
Argentine incumbent concedes defeat in presidential vote
Tens of thousands march in Barcelona urging Spanish unity
Germans flock to Frankenstein Castle for spooky Halloween
Breakfast Blogs
Lindsey Graham’s Transformation Into a Complete Tool Is Now Complete Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
DOJ’s Inspector General (and 70 Colleagues) Says DOJ’s Lawyers Fucked Up emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
About that ethnic cleansing digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Where did she get that idea? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Music Notes Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“When you’re a star, they should let you do anything” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The McCain/Lieberman Party Gets a Face Lift driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Today Donald Trump Didn’t Become President Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
JUST A COUPLE OF TOTALLY NORMAL CENTRISTS WRITING A TOTALLY NORMAL CENTRIST OP-ED Steve m., No More Mister Nice Blog