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
Nazi police arrest Anne Frank and family; Britain declares war on Germany in World War I; Three civil rights workers found slain in Mississippi; The Bordens axed to death; Jazz great Louis Armstrong born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.
Helen Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013)
Breakfast News
The Latest: Governor says California getting a grip on virus
Parents struggle as schools reopen amid coronavirus surge
US energy use hit 30-year low during pandemic shutdowns
Kids getting caught in crossfire as US gun violence surges
Shops closed, beaches deserted as Isaias nears the Carolinas
Virginia gov faces new hurdle in bid to remove Lee statue
Vehicle malfunction sparked Southern California wildfire
Stars, Knights players kneel in support of social justice
Rhode Island boy digs up massive 2 1/2-pound mollusk
Spain’s new wave of infections hits the young, middle-aged
Philippine capital returning to lockdown as virus surges
Outbreak hits Norway cruise ship, could spread along coast
First students resume class in Germany after corona shutdown
Asia Today: More restrictions in Australia’s Victoria state
Champagne losing its fizz as global pandemic clobbers sales
Pipe by pipe, Notre Dame Cathedral organ gets 4-year cleanup
Breakfast Blogs
‘Congress’ Is Not Flailing. Republicans Are. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Time is running out digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
“Is it not fitting then that I be President?” Dennis Hartley, Digby’s Hullabaloo
New Committee to Save the World Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Days After Floating Election Delay, Trump Threatens Mail-in Voting Executive Order Jerry Lambe, Just Security
Politics is an iterated game Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Native Women and Suffrage Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Fuq the Blues, They Don’t Vote For Us Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Trump Finds New Way To Ratf*ck Census, To Screw Democrats Long After He’s Gone! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Kris Kobach Has Full Support Of Democrats Who Can’t Wait To See Him Lose Kansas Senate Race Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Creepy Blue Lives Matter Group Tricks Black Church Into Hosting Rally robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette