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
The U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan; President Richard Nixon resigns; Charles Manson cult murders actress Sharon Tate and four others; Singer Whitney Houston born; Musician Jerry Garcia dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate.
Breakfast News
Border numbers dip below 100k for 1st time in months
Weakened but unbowed, NRA head digs in against gun control
Texas relaxed gun laws after recent mass shootings
Immigrants lock doors, rally around children of detained
Judge rules for Oregon in sanctuary city case with Trump
Puerto Rico, with 3 governors in a week, considers a 4th
Suit alleging bias against whites, men at Harvard dismissed
First tracked mountain lion crosses Los Angeles freeway
Forest Fire prevention icon Smokey Bear is turning 75
Italy’s Salvini pushes for a new election over deadlocks
UK opposition warns Johnson against Brexit ‘abuse of power’
UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future
No phone calls, no groceries: Kashmir on edge under lockdown
Magnitude 6 quake shakes western Turkey; more than 20 hurt
Fans recreate Beatles’ Abbey Road cover shot 50 years on
Breakfast Blogs
If the Mississippi ICE Raids Were About ‘The Law,’ Why Were No Executives Marched Out in Cuffs? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
DOJ Should Just Give Andrew McCabe What He Wants, But They Won’t emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Attorney General of the United States is all in for torture and vigilante justice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Not everything is awful Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Teaching Covert Action to Law Students Peter deLacy, Lawfare
Senatitis Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
This is what happens when you have sadistic moral monsters making policy Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Climate Divestment Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rick Wilson: Internet Tough Guy driftglass, at his blog
This Desperate, Armed Land The Rude Pundit, at his blog
ICE Raids Leave Kids All Alone In Mississippi Streets, America Very Great Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Don McGahn, You Are TELL IT TO THE JUDGE! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
All Wayne LaPierre Wanted Was To Play Marie Antoinette On The Charity Dime! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
MALIGNANT NARCISSISM BY PROXY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog