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
On this date in 1941, Japanese forces attack the home base of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii – prompting America under President Franklin D. Roosevelt to enter World War II.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Breakfast News
Supreme Court keeps federal executions on hold
Supreme Court puts temporary hold on House subpoenas to banks for Trump’s financial documents
FAA seeks to fine Boeing $3.9 million for faulty jet parts
Company lays off miners after hiring them from Blackjewel
Mexicans fleeing violence form new encampment on border
Activists cheer for “Greta!”, urge climate action in Madrid
UK Brexit envoy quits, slamming politicians’ ‘half-truths’
World powers press Iran to reverse nuke deal violations
Independence not on ballot, but on voters’ minds in Scotland
UN Libya migrant center plagued with crowding, TB, food cuts
Indian police fatally shoot 4 suspects in gang-rape case
Indian woman who alleged gang-rape dies after burn attack
Breakfast Blogs
Is There Any Republican Left Who Isn’t Just Foul Ambition, All the Way Through? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Joshua Schulte: The Alleged Vault 7 and CIA Election Spying Leaker? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
France Strikes, with Firefighters at Center Stage Quinn Norton, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
What’s heard in Moscow stays in Moscow Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
A Call to Arms: Taking the Russia Threat Seriously Marc Polymeropoulos, Just Security
Britain Goes to the Polls in a High-Stakes Election Amanda Sloat, Lawfare
The Women Who Still Speak Up Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
Bind but do not protect Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Welcome To Hell driftglass, at his blog
Circumlocution Office Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Nikki Haley Said One of the Stupidest Fucking Things I’ve Heard a Politician Say in a Long Time The Rude Pundit, at his blog
IS BIDEN OUR TRUMP? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
David Brooks: When I Was A Teenage Socialist Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Senate Intel Committee Knows GOP Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Are Horsesh*t But SHHHHH DON’T TELL! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Detained Teen Died Of Flu. And Of Border Patrol Not Giving A Sh*t Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Aw, Rudy Giuliani Thinks He’s Helping! Liz Dye, Wonkette