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
Crisis unfolds in Little Rock, Ark. over racial integration in schools; Ford rolls out its ill-fated Edsel; Attorney William Kunstler dies; Mark Spitz sets Olympic gold record; Singer Beyonce born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?
Breakfast News
Pentagon approves military construction cash for border wall
Flames blocked escape for 34 divers on boat, officials say
Texas shooter got gun at private sale; denied in 2014 check
California advances crackdown on bogus vaccine exemptions
US plans for fake social media run afoul of Facebook rules
Moose on the loose at North Dakota football practice field
‘Total devastation’: Hurricane slams parts of the Bahamas
Major defeat for British PM as lawmakers seize Brexit agenda
New US-led patrols in Persian Gulf raise stakes with Iran
New Zealand gun buyback exposes emotions, possibly hustlers
Shattering Taliban attack in Kabul even as US deal nears
Decades after fleeing, Kashmiri Hindus still fear going back
Iran oil tanker pursued by US turns off tracker near Syria
Breakfast Blogs
Mississippi’s Gubernatorial Runoff Primary Was Ratfcked by Machine Glitches Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Government Confirms that WikiLeaks Didn’t Release All the Vault 7 Files emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Good old Rod, still on the team after all this time digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
All the president’s enemies Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What if a President Committed Genocide or Other Atrocity Crimes? Ambassador David Scheffer, Just Security
‘Take the Land’: Trump Promises Pardons for Law-Breaking Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare
Could Democracy Return to North Carolina? Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s not acceptable for a presidential candidate to lie, or be in a delusional state, about his role in supporting a catastrophic war Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Great Moments in “Republicans Have No Agency” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
British Politics: Options, Strategies, and Bull-headed Stupidity . . . In other words, an average Monday in 2019. Dave Brockington, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Corporate America Is Finally Getting Sick of Your Guns The Rude Pundit, at his blog
An education in itself Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TOLERANCE OF TRUMP’S SELF-DEALING IS A NATURAL EXTENSION OF WELL-ESTABLISHED REPUBLICAN BELIEFS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog