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
Inventor Thomas Edison dies; Three scientists share Nobel prize for DNA work; Anthrax scare hits CBS in New York; Two U.S. athletes suspended for Mexico City Olympics protest; Rock star Chuck Berry born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see… Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No – we will not do that.
Elijah Cummings (January 18, 1951 – October 17, 2019)
Breakfast News
School’s out: Chicago teachers strike, 1st day deal unlikely
Plan to close notorious Rikers jail complex by 2026 approved
The Latest: GM workers to begin contract voting on Saturday
Juul halts sales of fruit, dessert flavors for e-cigarettes
Judge blocks Trump from easing energy rules in US West
Some US farmers get a reprieve at end of challenging year
Hurricane Center: Tropical storm likely along Gulf Coast
Study: California’s big July quakes strain major fault
Saturday drama: Brexit battle to be decided in UK Parliament
Northern Ireland border communities anxious amid Brexit deal
Aid groups scramble to reach Syrians as battle lines shift
Syrian Kurdish-led force says it will abide by cease-fire
IMF head says more needed to boost growth than US-China deal
As Britain battles to leave the EU, others struggle to join
Putin directs exercise of Russian nuclear forces
Protesters bar Haiti’s president from visiting historic site
Venezuela wins seat on UN rights body despite opposition
Riots darken Catalan separatist dream of peaceful secession
Breakfast Blogs
Sometimes Voter Suppression Is on Autopilot. Sometimes There’s Somebody Behind the Wheel. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Mick Mulvaney Confesses OMB and DOD Are Withholding Evidence of a Crime from Congress emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Sorting Out The Timeline For Lev Parnas And Program Trading Corp. Jim White, emptywheel
Rest in Power: Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (1951 – 2019) Rayne, emptywheel
The Age Of Unreason. Or Life in The Trump Reich. Echidne, at her blog
Somebody’s making some dubious trades on Trump chaos digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Rep. Elijah Cummings dies at 68 Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Pence Just Ratified All of Turkey’s War Aims in Syria Spencer Ackerman, The Daily Beast
Bill Barr’s Witch Hunt James Lamond and Talia Dessel, Just Security
GM Strike is Nearly Over Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erdogan orders US to remove Kurds from northern Syria so that Turkey can seize area unopposed: US complies Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump and the Senate Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Good Old Days driftglass, at his blog
Literary Corner: Recep, Don’t Be a Tough Guy Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE PARTY OF NORMAL PEOPLE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Mick Mulvaney: Trump Committed Ukraine Crimes, It Was Awesome, GET OVER IT! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Can You Read Gordon Sondland’s Ukraine Testimony Without Punching A Baby? A Wonkette Self-Control Test! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Welcome, G-7 Leaders, To Trump Miami Trash Palace, Ass-Grabs And Bedbugs For Free! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Oh Sad, Looks Like Susan Collins Gonna Get Impeached (By Voters) Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
If Trump Didn’t Know He Committed A Crime … LOL Sorry, We Tried To Get All The Way Through That Thought Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette