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
America faces the aftermath of the Sept. 11th attacks; Nazis rescue Italy’s Mussolini; JFK confronts critics of his religion; Student leader Steven Biko killed in South Africa; Singer Johnny Cash dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Breakfast News
Government to expand, extend Texas tent shelter for children
US judge strikes down California ban on handgun ads
Hurricane Florence has ingredients that make experts worry
Hurricane could flood many waste sites, creating toxic brew
North Carolina’s wild horses know how to survive hurricane
Zinke seeks more state wildlife management on federal lands
Iran relocates consulate in Iraq’s Basra following unrest
SKorea’s Moon calls for ‘bold decisions’ ahead of Kim summi
Death toll from summer forest fire near Athens rises to 99
Months of deadly unrest devastate Nicaragua’s economy
AP Photos: Haitians scour the country’s largest trash dump
Breakfast Blogs
Still Confused About Kaepernick? Look What Just Happened in Dallas. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Frothy Right Is Furious that Peter Strzok Pursued the Guy Leaking about Carter Page emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Trump Show. What’s Happening Behind the Curtain? Echidne, at her blog
Pathological, delusional, stupid or all three? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Incoming! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump Declassifying Page, Ohr Records Will Have Broader Effects Kel McClanahan, Just Security
What the 9/11 Commission Report Had to Say About Congressional Oversight Carrie Cordero, Lawfare
You *Are* the Sucker, Democratic Proceduralist Edition Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Paul Ryan barely misses lifetime goal of kicking federal deficit up to one trillion dollars per year Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How Did Joe Scarborough Think This Would End? driftglass, at his blog
DUELING WITCH HUNTS! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
New York note Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Trump Commemorates 9/11 By Whining Like A Goddamn Baby, What A Shock Evan Hurst, Wonkette
That Time When Brett Kavanaugh Tried To Screw Over 9/11 Families Doktor Zoom, Wonkette