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
Wright brothers conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. U.S. test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Simon Bolivar dies in Colombia; television’s Tiny Tim marries his fiancee, Miss Vicky.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Breakfast News
Judge permits Georgia voter roll purges, plans 2nd hearing
$1.4T spending package crammed with unrelated provisions
Owners of OxyContin maker paid more after company’s big fine
NJ Assembly passes bill to bar religious exemption for shots
Amazon bans sellers from using FedEx for some deliveries
NJ lawmakers pass marijuana referendum for 2020 ballot
Mississippi man freed months after court rules racial bias
AP Exclusive: Thousands of Ohio absentee applications denied
Immigrants seeking driver’s licenses line up across New York
Oklahoma appeals judge’s $465 million order in opioid case
Puerto Rico governor to run in 2020 local elections
3 dead as suspected twisters, other storms batter the South
Across India, opposition building against citizenship law
7 years after Delhi gang rape, brutal India attacks continue
UK’s Boris Johnson talks with Trump, welcomes new lawmakers
China and Russia urge UN to lift key North Korea sanctions
A tattoo at a time, Afghan woman takes on society’s taboos
Breakfast Blogs
I Just Can’t Believe We Went Down This Road Again Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Emmet Sullivan to Mike Flynn: You Sir, Are No Ted Stevens emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Of course we should recognize the Native American genocide digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Distorted reporting tristero, Hullabaloo
How stupid does he think we are? (Need you ask?) Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Closing a Critical Gap in Cybersecurity Christopher C. Crebs, Lawfare
2020 Ratfucking Watch Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The True Infinity War Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
High Crimes Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
STOP DREAMING THAT DEMOCRATS CAN HACK THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Russian TV Can’t Stop LOLing At Putin’s Special ‘Agent’ Donald Trump Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Rudy Wanted Yovanovitch Out For Reasons That Don’t Sound Like A Mob Capo At All Liz Dye, Wonkette
Trumpers Remember Armenian Genocide With Solemn Screams, Fisticuffs At Adam Schiff Event Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Some Dick Won’t Be Terrible Partisan Democrat No More, Will Be Terrible Partisan Republican Instead Stephen Robinson, Wonkette