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
Britain’s Princess Diana killed in a Paris car crash; Poland’s Solidarity labor movement born; Jack the Ripper’s first victim found dead in London; Violinist Itzhak Perlman and singer Van Morrison born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.
Breakfast News
US News
WA hospitals seeing more more pregnant COVID patients
Officials withhold school board salaries over mask mandates
Federal aid ending for hundreds of thousands in Pennsylvania
Mississippi governor: Christians are ‘less scared’ of COVID
Detroit Zoo animals getting COVID-19 vaccine
Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid
Ida topples New Orleans jazz landmark where Armstrong worked
Flood-ravaged Tennessee community braces for Ida remnants
RFK’s oldest son condemns possible parole of Sirhan Sirhan
Lithium fuels hopes for revival on California’s largest lake
Starbucks unionization effort brews at 3 Buffalo-area cafes
Cougar that was kept as illegal pet removed from NYC home
US Politics
House asks companies to save Jan. 6 phone, computer records
Beshear seeking consensus before calling special session
State mask bans face federal civil rights inquiries
Colorado election official files suit to remove county clerk
Clinics ask high court to block Texas 6-week abortion ban
NC governor vetoes doing away with pistol purchase permits
International News
EU takes US off safe travel list; backs travel restrictions
Last troops exit Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war
Split UN Security Council urges Taliban to allow travel, aid
IAEA: N Korea appears to have resumed nuke reactor operation
Birds of prey face global decline from habitat loss, poisons
China limits children to 3 hours of online gaming a week
Sports
Even as COVID cases rise, US Open, other events welcome fans
Saints working 500 miles from home after displaced by Ida
2012 champ Murray tumbles out of US Open against Tsitsipas
Breakfast Blogs
Who Votes for People Who Do This Much Damage? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
A collision of existential crises digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Getting away with it Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Texas Legislature Says You Can’t Teach About Racism In Schools, But Social Media Sites Must Host Holocaust Denialism Mike Masnick, Techdirt
More Pro-Trump Lawyers Sanctioned For BS Election Fraud Lawsuits Tim Cushing, Techdirt
ACLU Files Emergency Petition with SCOTUS to Stop Texas Abortion Law that Allows Anyone to Sue Doctors Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime/
COVID, Mississippi, and the Medicaid expansion Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
COVID craziness, August 30, 2021 edition Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Biden’s Continued Move Against Forced Labor Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Supply Chain Problems Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Republican Zombie Herd Point Man Is Stunned… cdriftglass, at his blog
View From Nowhere Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY AT THE STATE LEVEL JUST … HAPPENED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Warmonger Stunts & Bold New Afghanistan Strategy: More War! Michael Mora, Wonkette
Texas’ Creepy ‘Spy On Your Abortion-Having Neighbors’ Law About To Go Into Effect Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
University Of Georgia Professor Not Dying To Die From Teaching Maskless A-Hole Students Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Matt Gaetz And Jim Jordan Begged Trump To Call Off Rioters, Because They Knew Damn Well Who Sent Them Liz Dye, Wonkette
Area Cat Notices Today’s News Is A LOT, Reminds You To Breathe Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Today In Labor History: Gabriel’s Rebellion Erik Loomis, Wonkette