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) 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
Martin Luther leads start of Protestant Reformation; President Lyndon B. Johnson halts U.S. bombing of North Vietnam; India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated; Magician Harry Houdini dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
Breakfast News
In defeat for Trump, judge blocks transgender military ban
Puerto Rico’s path to restore power shifts after Whitefish exit
Death toll from California blazes rises to 43, after teen dies
U.S. Army Corps boosts size of Fluor’s Puerto Rico power restoration contract
Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy goes on trial for leading 2014 armed standoff
Spanish prosecutor accuses sacked Catalan leader of rebellion
Major Venezuelan opposition parties to boycott local polls
Convoy rolls into Damascus suburbs with aid for 40,000: U.N.
Magnitude 7.0 undersea quake hits near New Caledonia, no tsunami
Breakfast Blogs
\FWD: FWD: FWD: The Tax System Explained in Beer Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Footnote Shows Manafort Was Hiding Willingness to Reach Out to Russia emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Some Thoughts On The Manafort Indictment bmaz, emptywheel
The Harasser-In-Chief And The Recent Flood Of Sexual Harassment Allegations Echidne, at her blog
The Wall St Journal says “pardon everyone, including yourself!” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Seeing daylight? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Will the Republican Party Be Accessories After the Fact? (SPOILER: Almost Certainly) Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Pardon me Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Illustrated Manafort Redux driftglass, at his blog
ON UNFIT PRESIDENTS AND SUNK COSTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Judge Doesn’t Care Much For DOJ’s Boilerplate, Refuses To Grant One Year Gag Order Tim Cushing, Techdirt