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
U.S. government warns of smoking risks, Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo across Pacific, Major League Baseball introduces designated hitter.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Breakfast News
Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump
California budget plan aids teachers, those in US illegally
Judge orders homeless women to leave house they’re occupying
Judge allows effort to recall Alaska governor to proceed
Storms with hurricane-force winds, huge hail threaten South
Rare salt formations appear along the Great Salt Lake
Australia urges quarter of a million to flee as winds fan huge bushfires
Climate change protests stretch to London as Australia bushfires rage
Australia’s bushfires make massive clouds of pollution
Australian alpine resorts bring snow guns to firefight
Taiwan votes with future of its democracy on the line
EU ministers support Iran deal, fear IS resurgence
France rejects 11-month deadline UK sets on EU trade talks
Breakfast Blogs
The President* Likes to Hand Off Responsibility for His Own Actions to Whoever’s Around Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Steve Bannon’s 302 of Laughter and Forgetting emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Fine. We’ll do it ourselves. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Obstruction of Congress, Impeachment and Constitutional Conflict Jonathan Shaub, Lawfare
“Designed by clowns…supervised by monkeys”: Boeing and Finance Bro Culture Scott Lemieux, Lawyers,Guns and Money
What does “imminent” mean? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
FEDERALIST WRITER IS UPSET BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE MEAN, AND BY “PEOPLE” HE MEANS DEMOCRATS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
LAPD Officers Falsely ID’ed Kids As Gangsters? That Can’t Be Right Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Trump Silent About The Puerto Rico Earthquakes, So They’ve Got That Going For Them Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
What Shall We Call VDare Founder Peter Brimelow, If Not A White Nationalist? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
DOJ Has Clinton Foundation Witch Hunt, Finds No Witches, Keeps Hunt Open Forever *Just In Case* Liz Dye, Wonkette
Tulsi Gabbard Still Fighting ‘Warmonger’ Hillary Clinton For 2016 Dem Nomination Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Ever Had A Staring Contest With A Constipated Turtle? Now You Know How Nancy Pelosi Feels. Evan Hurst, Wonkette