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
Dr. Martlin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; the Sharkville massacre in South Africa occurs; Wrongly incarcerated Randall Dale Adams is released from prison; Musician Johann Bach born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Breakfast News
Governor orders probe of medical board in Ohio State abuse
5th migrant child dies after detention by US border agents
Seeing a twisting road ahead, Ford cuts 7K white-collar jobs
California eyes health care for immigrants in US illegally
1st black woman sworn in as Chicago mayor; vows big reforms
Texas advances bill to stiffen penalties for pipeline damage
Oregon joins effort to solve crimes against Native women
Andrea, Atlantic season’s 1st named subtropical storm, forms
Yemen rebels say drone hits arms depot at Saudi airport
Ukraine president takes political stage in dramatic fashion
Austrian government collapses over Ibiza video scandal
China’s pig disease outbreak pushes up global pork prices
New Zealand crews reenter coal mine 8 years after 29 killed
Breakfast Blogs
Either the Trump Camp’s Claims About Executive Power Stand, or the Constitution Does Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Mueller Report Redactions and the Claims about “Collusion” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He really can shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any voters digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the government experts Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump’s Preference for Acting Officials Puts National Security at Risk Carrie Cordero and Joshua A. Geltzer, Just Security
Today in Trump Land Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Latest Selective Campus PC Panic Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Scripted reality Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Paranoid Style, 2019 Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
SO WHAT’S THE DRINKING AGE NOW IN FETAL PERSONHOOD STATES? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog