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
Highlights of this day in history: Cult leader Jim Jones and hundreds of followers die in mass murder-suicide in South America; Massachusetts high court rules gay couples can marry; Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ premieres in New York
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.
Breakfast News
Sandy Hook lawsuit could force Remington to open books
Illegal pot farms on public land create environmental hazard
Chicago teachers approve contract deal that ended strike
Census counting of prisoners becomes partisan battleground
Kavanaugh accuser gets award from ACLU for speaking out
tudent whose parents died of heart attacks has CPR idea
Alaskan city sees heat and snowfall records in single day
Dunkin’ bans the ‘double-cup’ as it swaps foam for paper
Protesters try to leave Hong Kong campus but avoid arrest
Iran’s top leader warns ‘thugs’ as protests reach 100 cities
Migrants stuck in lawless limbo within sight of America
Leaked Russian interference report raises UK vote questions
Bolivia’s crisis exposes old racial, geographic divides
3rd record tide enters Venice as Italy hit with snow, rain
Italy’s white truffle hunters worry about climate change
Breakfast Blogs
If There’s a Gun Left That Isn’t Smoking, I Can’t Find It Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bill Barr’s Screed: Blindness about Current Threats emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“I love waterboarding — and worse!” — Donald J. Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Big Grift tristero, Hullabaloo
Cult of executive authority Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Life inside the Republican cult Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 586 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Gun and Money
Impeachment Hearings: Yovanovitch Kicks Trump’s Ass driftglass, at his blog
Don’t Care Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
IS TRUMP’S BIZARRE SENSE OF SHAME PREVENTING HIM FROM TAKING POLITICAL ADVANTAGE OF A HEALTH SCARE? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog