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
Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign the ‘Pact of Steel’; Richard Nixon is the first U.S. president to visit the Soviet Union; Actor Laurence Olivier born; Johnny Carson hosts his last ‘Tonight Show.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Arthur Conan Doyle
Breakfast News
Mississippi abortion law ‘smacks of defiance,’ US judge says
Nevada lawmakers close to repealing tough abortion rules
States sue over rule allowing clinicians to refuse abortions
California sues over $1B in canceled high-speed rail money
Colorado won’t halt drilling as it refocuses rules on safety
San Francisco police chief: Journalist ‘crossed the line’
Judge won’t toss suit challenging Georgia voting machines
Washington is 1st state to allow composting of human bodies
Bomb-laden drone from Yemen rebels targets Saudi airport
Spain: Jailed Catalans, far right deputies in new Parliament
Seeking Brexit support, May offers vote on new referendum
Ukraine’s president calls new parliamentary election
Duterte’s allies dominate Senate race, shut out opposition
Mexicans buy fake cellphones to hand over in muggings
Austrian chancellor set to face confidence vote next week
Frenchman in vegetative state kept alive after appeal to UN
Breakfast Blogs
Nancy Pelosi Must Defend the Essential Integrity of the Constitution Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Michael Cohen’s HPSCI Testimony Proves Trump Lied in his Answers to Mueller emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He’s already as unpopular as Nixon was 6 months into the Watergate hearings digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump’s betting on simple math Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Three-Level Game in the White House Effort to Block McGahn’s Testimony Bob Bauer, Just Security
The House Is Right to Move Toward an Impeachment Inquiry Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
Is it OK to criticize a Harvard law professor for choosing to represent a particular client in a criminal proceeding? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Attempt To Eliminate Congressional Oversight Power Rejected Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Eleventh Lesson of Rahmses driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: My Conversation With Rob Goldstone Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WHY NO ONE ASKS REPUBLICANS TO DO OUTREACH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog