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
The Battle of Antietam sets a bloody record during America’s Civil War; Work ends on U.S. Constitution; Israel and Egypt’s leaders sign Camp David Accords; Singer Hank Williams born; ‘MASH’ premieres.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Trump disputes with CDC’s chief on vaccine
Doubts persist at start of NYC’s hybrid school year
Hurricane Sally unleashes flooding, hundreds rescued
‘Nothing left in the bucket’: Wildfire resources run thin
Wildfire smoke brings haze, vivid sunsets to East Coast
Judges scrutinize suit’s claims in Harvard racial bias case
No emergency training for crew on boat where fire killed 34
Doctors in hard-hit Madrid: ‘It’s like March in slow motion’
5M people infected, India’s virus outbreak still soaring
UK to ration COVID-19 testing amid testing failures
South Africa says 12 million ‘probably’ had coronavirus
Belarus leader Lukashenko disparages protests as US plan
Experts cite ‘crimes against humanity’ in Maduro’s Venezuela
Mali junta says working to meet regional bloc’s demands
Japan’s new PM Yoshihide Suga, self-made and strong-willed
Amazon Indigenous group patrols to expel invading loggers
Polish government under fire over draft animal welfare law
Primate monkeys around with student’s phone, takes selfies
Breakfast Blogs
‘Regulatory Capture’ Sounds Boring Until Airplanes Start Falling Out of the Sky Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Paul Manafort’s Claims about WikiLeaks in His September 13, 2018 Interview emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy fall digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trump is losing older voters Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Whistleblower: DHS Suppressed Reports on Central America and Inflated Risk of Terrorist Border-Crossers Susan Gzesh, Just Security
Bill Barr Said Prosecutors Could Charge Rioters for Conspiring to Overthrow U.S. Government Matt Naham, Law & Crime
No Qualified Immunity for Pittsburgh Cop Who Wrongly Detained Black Teenager, ‘Slammed’ Him Against a Wall Colin Kalmabacher, Law & Crime
George Atiyeh Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump’s COVID catastrophe Scott Lemeiux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The man who wanted to be on TV Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
On The Slapping of the Tsar, 10 Years Later driftglass, at his blog
My Vote Is a Precious Thing Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WE’RE GOING TO HAVE THREE GISH GALLOP PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
No, Joe Biden Does Not In Fact Want To F**k Tha Police Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Charlie Kirk’s ‘Non-Profit’ Pays American Teens To Staff Kremlin-Style Troll Farm. USA! USA! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Bill Barr Being Lying Pigf*ck Again Evan Hurst, Wonkette