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
Deadly fires scorch Chicago and other parts of Upper Midwest; Communist Poland bans labor groups; Alexander Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Don Larsen pitches ‘perfect’ World Series game.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Breakfast News
U.S. lawmakers want to restrict internet surveillance on Americans
Federal judge refuses to overturn Trump pardon of Arpaio
Ohio court overturns death sentence for convicted murderer, orders new trial
Catalonia moves to declare independence from Spain on Monday
Bangladesh destroys boats ferrying Rohingya from Myanmar
Mexico plans aid for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
Breakfast Blogs
If the Democrats Don’t Learn This Lesson, They Deserve to Lose Forever Charles Pierce, Esquire Polotics
Russia’s no biggie, we can all move along digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Stacking a legislature Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Has Anthony Kennedy Been Pushed Too Far? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
FOR THE LEFT, “GOING BIG” ON GUNS WOULD NOT BE LIKE “GOING BIG” ON OTHER ISSUES Stve M., No More Mister Nice blog