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
Civil war erupts in Rwanda; NY audience previews long-distance television; Auto pioneer Henry Ford dies in Dearborn, Mich.;Singer Billie Holiday, known as “Lady Day” is born in Philadelphia.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is always the need to carry on.
Breakfast News
Michigan to close Flint’s free bottled water sites
FEMA: Puerto Rico running out of time as storm season nears
Arizona, Texas send 400 troops to border after Trump’s call
California governor hedges on sending troops to border
Sessions orders ‘zero tolerance’ policy for border crossers
Judge: Assault weapons ban doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment
Court upholds freedom for man who long denied 1980 murder
Rain shuts Yosemite, threatens problems at tallest US dam
Catalonia’s defiant ex-leader freed on bail from German jail
Hungarian parties rip into each other before Sunday’s vote
China applies its own maximum pressure policy on Pyongyang
Ex-S. Korean leader Park gets 24-year prison term
Brazil’s Lula creates standoff with defiance of prison order
SKorean baseball league postpones games over pollution
Paris conference raises over $11 billion to help Lebanon
Breakfast Blogs
Forget Kevin Williamson’s Firing. The Free Press Is in Actual Peril. Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
What Did Wikileaks Do with the DCCC Emails It Monopolized? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheel, emptywheel
What Happened To The Cultural Elites: The Capitalist Celebration Ed Walker, emptywheel
The Song of Kevin The Brave And Bold Echidne, at her blog
Cruel forced pregnancy for rape victims digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump Just About to a T tristero, Hullabaloo
The kiss of death Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Why Being Named a “Subject” in Mueller’s Probe is Reason for Trump to Worry–Not Celebrate Liam Brennan, Just Security
Support at elite law firms for Trump Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I Will Most Assuredly Get Fooled Again Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The GOP’s $84,000 Pajama Boy will spend time with whoever will tolerate him Shalezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Kevin Williamson’s Secret Identity Is Kevin Williamson driftglass, at his blog
THERE’S NO REASON TO LISTEN TO CONSERVATIVE THINKERS, BUT EDITORS WANT THEM MORE THAN EVER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Supreme Court Says Shooting A Non-Threatening Person Without Warning Is Just Good Police Work Tim Cushing, Techdirt