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
President Richard Nixon says he’ll resign; Thieves stage Britain’s ‘Great Train Robbery’; Nazi saboteurs in the U.S. executed during World War II; Mexico’s Emiliano Zapata and actor Dustin Hoffman born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
Breakfast News
Mass shootings so far this year almost reach 2018 levels
Puerto Ricans get their 3rd governor in 6 days
Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests
Yellowstone officials warn of dangerous behavior with bison
California’s only known wolf pack adds 3 pups
Pakistan downgrades diplomatic ties with India over Kashmir
Maduro halts talks with opponents over US asset freeze
UK food industry looks to avoid shortages in no-deal Brexit
Gazans struggle to protect antiquities from neglect, looting
Police patrol Rome’s Spanish Steps to enforce sitting ban
More than 1.8M pilgrims gather in Mecca ahead of the hajj
Breakfast Blogs
The Oil Giants Might Finally Pay for Pulling the Biggest Hoax of All Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
It Is False To Claim the Counterintelligence Investigation into Trump Is Unprecedented emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts 8/7/19. Toni Morrison, RIP, On Paul Krugman’s Column And What Online Chatter Matters Echidne, at her blog
They are natural authoritarians digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Nadler demands Kavanaugh’s WH records from 2001-06. Hannity freaks out Spocko, Hullabaloo
Medicare for All works “like a tax cut” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump’s DNI Pick Would Brief Dem Nominee Ahead of 2020 Katrina Mulligan, Just Security
Never turn a cheap trick Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Conservative Campaign Finance Two-Step Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Local Newspaper Forgets How To Spell “Republican” driftglass, at his blog
Dumbf*ck Baby Trumper Grifter Headed To The Hoosegow! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Is Joaquin Castro Trying To Kill You? Evan Hurst, Wonkette
THE TRUMPERS ARE LIKE THE COPS PLANTING THEIR OWN DRUGS ON A SUSPECT AND THEN ARRESTING HIM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog