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
US launches first satellite into orbit; Libyan intelligence officer convicted of Pan Am 103 bombing; US Soldier executed for desertion during World War II; Norman Mailer born; Franz Schubert born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Breakfast News
18K Houston-area voters removed from citizenship check
Georgia push for Equal Rights Amendment draws GOP support
US secretly shipped plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada
Patients in Northwest measles outbreak traveled to Hawaii
Polar blast envelops Midwest, strains aging infrastructure
Elephant seals take over California beach during shutdown
Venezuelans take to streets in walkout to push Maduro out
Canada reducing Canadian staff at Cuba embassy by half
Egypt arrests activists after commemoration of uprising
Taliban say they are not looking to rule Afghanistan alone
EU won’t budge on Brexit deal as May seeks cross-party unity
Breakfast Blogs
Scott Walker’s Foxconn Boondoggle Is Going to Fleece Wisconsin for Years Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Disinformation Campaign Targeting Mueller and the Delayed Briefing to SSCI on Russian Election Interference emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Backsliding in Women’s Rights? Two Examples. Echidne, at her blog
Sure they’ll run from him if he loses. We can’t let them do that again. They own him. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The firefighter in the room Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Threat That Mustn’t Be Named Ned Price, Just Security
What is it like to be a billionaire? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Ron Fournier: To Build a Furor driftglass, at his blog
Hispanic Evangelical Leaders: We Love You, Donald; Most Hispanics: Not So Much The Rude Pundit, at his blog
NICE EDITING, NATIONAL REVIEW Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog