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
Cuban missile crisis fuels Cold War clash at UN; China’s UN seat changes hands; ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ battle takes place; Author Geoffrey Chaucer dies; Golfer Payne Stewart killed in plane crash.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don’t stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you’re stationary. So don’t worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.
Breakfast News
The Latest: 40,000 ordered to flee fires near Los Angeles
Idaho makes it harder to change gender on birth certificates
New Jersey seeks to revoke Trump golf club’s liquor license
Florida considers allowing college athletes to earn money
No deal, more fallout in week-long Chicago teacher strike
Navajo company shuts coal mine in dispute over sovereignty
Southern drought shows first improvement in weeks
Swarm of sea urchins wreaks destruction on US West Coast
Fossil trove shows life’s fast recovery after big extinction
Alaska’s Iditarod joins a new global sled-dog-racing series
Jimmy Carter out of hospital after treatment for fall
Syria says Turkish-led forces attacked its troops
UK’s Johnson seeks Dec. 12 election to break Brexit impasse
Putin courts Africa, offers to mediate Nile dam dispute
Morales declares victory in Bolivia without final vote count
Deadly Ethiopia unrest poses fresh challenge to Nobel winner
Russian commission advises pardon for Norwegian in spy case
3 dead, dozens evacuated as storms lash southern France
Senior rabbi warns about rise of anti-Semitism in Europe
Opening new chapter, Spain exhumes Gen. Franco’s remains
Dubai loosens liquor laws as UAE alcohol sales suffer drop
US ambassador returns to Italy a statue stolen in 1968
Breakfast Blogs
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dismantled Mark Zuckerberg and His Policy on Politicians Lying in Ads Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
If the AG Is Involved in a Foreign Influence Operation, Does He Have to Register with Himself? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Alex Mooney’s Hilarious Self-Own Ed white, emptywhee;
Is Elizabeth Warren electable? And Other Complications. Echidne, at her blog
Poor Lindsey Graham just can’t catch a break digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Justice by zealots Tom Sullivan, HUllabaloo
United States of America v. Rudolph W. Giuliani Barbara McQuade and Joyce Vance, Just Security
Nonconsensual Pornography, Political Scandals and a Warning for 2020 Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
Mister we could use a judge like Tony Kennedy again Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Forever in debt to your priceless advice Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 569 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s Not a Movement: It’s a Market driftglass, at his blog
Shark Jump Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Trump’s Lawyer: He’s a King The Rude Pundit, at his blog
SO WHAT YOU’RE SAYING IS THAT THE GOP COULDN’T WIN THIS ELECTION ON THE MERITS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Six Things Your Idiot Uncle Walter Doesn’t Understand About The Impeachment Of Donald Trump Evan Hurst, Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/watch-mark-zuckerberg-get-beaten-up-by-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-dem-mean-girls Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
v Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
South Carolina Super Psyched To Force Rape Victims To Have Their Rapist’s Babies Roby Pennacchia, Wonkette
You Know When You Wake Up Mad At Your Wife For Something She Did In Your Dream? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette