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
Four black girls killed in a church blast in Alabama; President George W. Bush vows massive rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina; Nazi Germany adopts Nuremberg laws; Agatha Christie and Oliver Stone born.
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
4 dead as Hurricane Florence drenches the Carolinas
Everyone wants answers: State, feds hunt for gas blast cause
Judge hails deal giving split families second shot at asylum
Census citizenship controversy likely to face New York trial
Dallas police face ire over portrayal of man shot by officer
Regulators keep watch on toxic waste sites during hurricane
San Francisco statue that some call racist is removed
Officials shed little light on closure of solar observatory
Ferocious typhoon slams into northeastern Philippines
France’s Macron admits system of torture during Algeria war
Isolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine
Defying dangers, Idlib residents protest Syria’s Assad
No joke as ex-comic becomes Slovenia’s new prime minister
Fighting breaks out in South Sudan 2 days after peace deal
Breakfast Blogs
If You Want to Defang Andrew Cuomo, the New York Primary Results Are Good News Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Paul Manafort’s $46 Million Plea Deal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner and Neil Irwin Don’t Get Ed Walker, emptywheel
Why Does My Pesto No Longer Love me? A Culinary Call For Help. Echidne, at her blog
GOP worthless from top to bottom digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
In New York state, six incumbents go down Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Executive Privilege and the Public Interest: Why the President Can’t Block Release of the Mueller Report Jessica Marsden and Andy Wright, Just Security
The Watergate ‘Road Map’ and the Coming Mueller Report Stephen Bates, Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Shorter Susan Collins: Democracy is Extortion Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Natural Disasters Are Human Disasters Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of the Bridgeport Empire? driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Sanctions Rise Again Yatreblyansky, Rectification of Names
UM … ABOUT BRETT KAVANAUGH’S CHARACTER WITNESS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Happy Weekend, Donald Trump! Paul Manafort’s Plea Agreement Says You Are WELL AND TRULY FUCKED! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Canada Legalized Weed, So Guess Who’s Gonna Be A Huge Narc About It, Man? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette