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 Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky scandal aired on TV; Authors H.G. Wells and Stephen King born; ‘Monday Night Football’ premieres; Actor-comedian Bill Murray born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
Breakfast News
Wildfires and hurricanes disrupt final weeks of 2020 census
California wildfire likely to grow from wind, low humidity
Tropical Storm Beta churns slowly toward Texas and Louisiana
North Dakota records 731 new COVID-19 cases over weekend
Des Moines says no to governor’s demand for classroom return
Judge agrees to delay US government restrictions on WeChat
Maine blueberry industry reels from drought, frost, virus
Efforts afoot to save South’s disappearing grasslands
Asia Today: New Zealand to begin lifting virus restrictions
Sweden spared surge of virus cases but many questions remain
Born to prevent war, UN at 75 faces deeply polarized world
UN chief: No UN support for reimposing Iran sanctions now
Aid groups call Italy’s blockade of rescue ship ‘political’
Thousands march in Berlin in support of refugees in Greece
Carpenters wow public with medieval techniques at Notre Dame
Breakfast Blogs
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Knew the Dark Elements in American History Never Die Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Wherein WikiLeaks Brags about Entertaining a Pardon Dangle from a Suspected Russian Asset and a White Supremacist emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
A possible blowout? Don’t get your hopes up but … digby aka Heather Dgby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Moral Cowardice tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
How many more must die? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
How Republican elites learned to stop worrying and love the Donald Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How to Get Away with Murder Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How the right wing legal machine actually works Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Blaming 2016 Voters for the Supreme Court Is Worthless The Rude Pundit, at his blog
For the Record: Ginsburg Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMPERS ARE TRYING TO PHYSICALLY PREVENT BIDEN SUPPORTERS FROM VOTING Steve M., No More Mister Nice BLog
Lindsey Graham Wants Us To Use His Words Against Him Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/just-another-disgruntled-ex-white-house-staffer-who-thinks-trump-aint-s-t Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Murkowski Says She Won’t Vote To Replace RBG Until After The Election, So There’s That Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette