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
Militants storm the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seize its occupants; Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated; Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution in Eastern Europe; Baseball hall-of-famer Cy Young dies; Rapper and producer Sean “Diddy” Combs is born
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it’s tainting everything.
Breakfast News
Trump now has opening to pull US out of Paris climate pact
All evacuations lifted for Southern California wildfire
US judge blocks Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants
Immigration looms over contested Minnesota school referendum
Illinois marijuana law aims to undo harm of war on the drug
Coal plant on tribal land to close after powering US West
Time ticks away at wild bison genetic diversity
Saudi Arabia formally starts IPO of oil firm Saudi Aramco
UK leader Boris Johnson sorry for missing Brexit deadline
El Salvador orders expulsion of Venezuelan diplomats
Italian ship with 151 rescued migrants docks in Sicily
Merkel: 1 million car charging points in Germany by 2030
Climate activists nab Macron portraits, divide French judges
Catalans against secession are alarmed by recent violence
Breakfast Blogs
The Phrase ‘CIA-Backed Paramilitaries’ Ought to Set the Alarm Bells Ringing Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
DOJ Pre-Dumps the Stone Trial: What BuzzFeed Obtained via FOIA emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Barr’s global gallivanting is much more bizarre than we knew digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Smells like victory Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Flirtation Between Manila and Moscow is a Sign of the Times Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
“Respecting the office” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
America’s Worst People Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Don’t shoot the comedian Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO PUBLICLY OUT THE WHISTLEBLOWER THE FIRST CHANCE THEY GET Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Uh Oh! Someone Said ‘Condom’ On TV And Now The One Million Moms Need Their Smelling Salts Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
President Reading Rainbow Will Beat Impeachment By Confessing Crimes On TV Evan Hurst, Wonkette
DOJ Fake Law Has Bad Day In Real Court Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette