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
President Harry Truman wins re-election in an upset; South Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem killed after coup; Howard Hughes flies his ‘Spruce Goose’; Game show scandal rocks early TV; Singer k.d. lang born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If man doesn’t learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
Breakfast News
Trade body: China can hit US with sanctions worth $3.6 bln
California firefighters struggle with big wildfire
Storms kill 2, knock out power, downs trees on East Coast
UAW leaders send Ford contract to ratification vote
Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations
South Dakota Keystone XL opponents point to N. Dakota spill
Health officials disclose another romaine outbreak, now over
Iraqis defy crackdown to hold biggest protests yet
Brexit Party wants to team up with Tories; Johnson says no
Failed mission raises doubts about Mexican security strategy
France cuts jobless benefits as part of Macron reforms plan
UN confirms Madrid as new location for climate summit
Messages of peace mark 30 years since fall of Berlin Wall
Breakfast Blogs
I Was Never Sure If Beto O’Rourke Was Running as a Real Person or a Bobby Kennedy Replicant Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Government Reminds Emmet Sullivan that Mike Flynn Already Agreed His Current Complaints Don’t Change His Guilt emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts 11/1/19. The Strongest Twitter Voices in Politics, Amazon as a Firm-Market Hybrid, And News About Women Echidne, at her blog
Yes, it does read like a pot-boiler. A very bad one. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Where corn is king, King is threatened Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
ISIS Suspect Transfers to Iraq Replete with Risks Belkis Willi, Just Security
The CIA’s Legal Obligation to Report the Ukraine Information to the Attorney General Steven E. Kaplow, Lawfare
Let the Professionals Handle It Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
American exceptionalism and health care Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guna and Money
G/O fuck yourself Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Florida President Moves to Florida Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sheriff Bart At Your Service driftglass, at his blog
Something to see here, move on anyway Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMP’S “FIRESIDE CHAT”: HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Hey-o, John Eisenberg, TIME TO BE FAMOUS! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Wanna See A Gay-Hatin’ Bigot Baby Cry? Click Here! (This Is ABSOLUTELY Clickbait) Jamie Lynn Croft, wonkette
But How Will Elizabeth Warren PAAAAAAY For Medicare For All Oh, Like This! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
GOP Witness Saves Trump’s Bacon By … Confirming Quid Pro Quo??? Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Missouri: Gov’t Small Enough To Shove Up A Planned Parenthood Patient’s Cooternanny Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
David Brooks Thought *Very Carefully* Before Deciding Impeachment A Waste Of Time Stephen Robinson, Wonkette