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
FDR wins unprecedented third term in the White House; Richard Nixon elected President; Former President Reagan says he has Alzheimer’s; George Foreman sets boxing record; Pianist Vladimir Horowitz dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Breakfast News
Synagogue shooting worst of many hateful attacks in October
Migrants camped at border worry caravans will shut them out
NAFTA 2.0 could draw some jobs back to US, but at what cost?
Florida city votes money to move Confederate soldier statue
Forecasters: Tornado hit Baltimore Amazon center, killing 2
Average US price of gas drops 8 cents per gallon to $2.85
Voters in Pacific territory choose to keep ties with France
Most of leading migrant caravan heads for Mexico City
Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people; 2 missing
Stone throwers face different fates across the globe
Iran marks ’79 US Embassy takeover as renewed sanctions loom
WWI centenary to be marked in London and Paris, not Berlin
Breakfast Blogs
The Watergate Roadmap Is a Reminder Honorable People in Government Can Make All the DifferenceCharles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Confirmed: Listening to Whistleblower John Reidy Could Have Saved the Lives of Numerous CIA Assets emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Recent News About Women’s Issues. Or From Google Via Nobels To Ethiopia And Back Echidne, at her blog
“Let us have faith that right makes might” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Seems Like Old Times
For My Evangelical and Catholic Friends — From Thomas Merton tristero, Hullabaloo
A certain paranoid style Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to Neoliberal Elites Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s Not “Vote-Shaming”; It’s Telling You Not to Be an Asshole The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Hi, it’s Stupid: Election Edition Yastreblyansky, Rectification Of Names
PRIVILEGE AT THE POLLING PLACE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog