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
Prohibition ends in the United States; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies; Walt Disney and Little Richard are born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Breakfast News
Nearly 700,000 will lose food stamps with USDA work requirement change
Judge: Purdue workers should get bonuses, but maybe not CEO
California recovers $23M from auto parts makers’ bid rigging
Virginia moves to drop work requirement for Medicaid
Senator: Trade hurting Maine blueberries, farmers need help
Surprising 1st results from NASA’s sun-skimming spacecraft
Hundreds of Yellowstone bison to be culled this winter
Jimmy Carter released from Georgia hospital
Willie Nelson says he’s not smoking, but is still using pot
Germany expels Russian diplomats in probe of Berlin killing
UK’s Boris Johnson juggles NATO summit with electioneering
UN says 58 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania
EU deputy: Not a bad idea to question Malta PM in slaying
OPEC nations grapple with oversupply of oil
Official: Japanese doctor dies after attack in Afghanistan
Breakfast Blogs
Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Fact That Bill Barr Is an Absolute Ghoul Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump HJC Defenders Claim Ukraine Aid Withheld To Fight Corruption While Rudy Rounds Up Fired Corrupt Ukrainians To Help Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
He’s no puppet, no puppet digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A Really Great Idea for Speaker Pelosi tristero, Hullabaloo
Quod erat demonstrandum Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
With Supreme Court Mired in Dark Money, Time for Large Dose of Transparency Sheldon Whitehouse, Just Security
Revisiting Criminal Obstruction of Justice in the Impeachment Inquiry Masha Simonova, Lawfare
Shorter Jonathan Turley: If Trump is impeached for bribing a foreign country to interfere in a US presidential election, what’s next, impeachment for lying about a blow job? Oh wait I was in favor of that Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Those who want equal protection of the laws give unquestioned deference to the authorities Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 590 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
No, Biden: An Argument Against Joe Because of Impeachment The Rude Pundit, at his blog
General Subterfuge Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
REPUBLICANS, TRIGGERED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Supreme Court Hears Gun Case, We’re All Gonna Die Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Beto O’Rourke Doing Kickflips … On The Texas House Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
There Aren’t Enough 10-Foot Poles In England For Princess Anne To Touch Donald Trump Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Having Your Kid’s Hymen Inspected Should Definitely Be Illegal Robyn Penacchia, Wonkette