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
Deadly fires scorch Chicago and other parts of Upper Midwest; Communist Poland bans labor groups; Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Don Larsen pitches ‘perfect’ World Series game.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?
Breakfast News
Chairman: Federal reserve must avoid political pressures
US declares disaster as typhoon passes north of Saipan
US seeks to blacklist Chinese artificial intelligence firms
Unions sue USDA seeking to halt new pork processing rule
Kroger, Walgreens to stop selling e-cigarettes in US
California OKs pharmacists to dispense HIV prevention meds
Hot air balloons land hard, cause injuries in New Mexico
Despite fall, former President Carter helps build home
Swedish teen climate activist rallies crowd in South Dakota
Profit, not politics: Trump allies sought Ukraine gas deal
Syria’s Kurds stand to lose all gains from US pullout
Lam says Chinese military could step in if uprising gets bad
EU demands UK face Brexit ‘realism;’ Johnson scrambles
NBA’s ties with China, worth billions, now under strain
New deadly migrant shipwreck hardens calls to revamp rescues
3 win Nobel Prize for showing how cells sense low oxygen
Breakfast Blogs
This Election Was Always Going to Be a Mudfight. If Joe Biden Can’t See That, He Should Get Out of the Way. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bill Barr Risks becoming George Papadopoulos’ Coffee Boy emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Jared Kushner’s Pervasive Corruption Pops Up In Surprising Ways Jim White, emptywheel
In My Great And Unmatched Wisdom… Echidne, at her blog
Will the military do what Trump said they would do back in 2016? (Break the law if he orders them to?) digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“A moment of American betrayal” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Congress Wakes Up, Finally Decides to Tackle Kleptocracy Casey Michel, Just Security
President Trump Bars Uninsured Immigrants From the U.S. Peter Margulies, Lawfare
The spirit of the age in a tweet Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
More Scary Brown Threats to American Security Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trumpian Unpredictability Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Alan Dershowitz wishes to inform you that he is the Real Victim here Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What Got You Trump Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
SHAME IS A MAJOR TRUMP MOTIVATOR. HIS OPPONENTS DON’T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump And DOJ: If The President, His Family Or Their Businesses Do It, It’s Not Illegal Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Mitch McConnell’s Wife Elaine Chao Practicing The Art Of The Steal Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Did Turkey Promise To Investigate Joe Biden Or Something? Is That Why Trump’s Pulling Out Of Syria? Evan Hurst, Wonkette