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
A Cold War crisis over Cuba leads to brink of nuclear war; Shah of Iran allowed into U.S. for treatment; ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd killed; Last victim slain in D.C. sniper shootings; Cellist Pablo Casals dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Revolution is about the need to re-evolve political, economic and social justice and power back into the hands of the people, preferably through legislation and policies that make human sense. That’s what revolution is about. Revolution is not about shootouts.
Breakfast News
$260 million deal averts 1st federal trial on opioid crisis
Tornado slams Dallas; 4 killed in Arkansas, Oklahoma
Study finds US public land workers facing assaults, threats
Affordable housing among striking Chicago teachers’ demands
Deliberate blackouts possible again in California amid winds
Arizona quietly suspends Medicaid work requirement
Central Park to get first statue honoring women
Liberal icon Trudeau appears set to hold onto government
New blow to Johnson’s Brexit plan after vote on deal blocked
Israel’s Netanyahu gives up on forming new coalition
Japan’s Naruhito to proclaim himself emperor at palace rite
Thai king strips his consort of royal titles for disloyalty
More violent clashes in Chile as many line up for food
N Ireland laws on abortion, same-sex marriage, set to change
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange loses bid to delay hearing
Zimbabwe says 55 elephants have starved to death in 2 months
Breakfast Blogs
If This Mossack Fonseca Investigation Is Real, I Wonder What Will Turn Up in Russia Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Rudy’s Disinformation Campaign Ties Directly with Key Milestones in the Mueller Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump’s going to let Erdogan have his own nukes isn’t he? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
… if you can keep it Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Missing Link: Getting Dirt on Biden Was Key Part of “Investigation into 2016 Election” Too Ryan Goodman and Alex Potcovaru, Just Security
Self-Dealing in Ukraine: The Core of the Impeachment Inquiry Philip Zelikow, Lawfare
The Ballad of Pierre Delecto Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/10/all-roads-lead-to-putin Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I Don’t See Color So I Can’t Tell if This Stout is Black or Gold Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money