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 10:30am (ET) 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
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Breakfast News
Los Angeles ‘turns corner’ on largest wildfire in city history
Funding battle looms as Texas sees Harvey damage at up to $180 billion
Texas chemical plant to burn containers at risk of explosion: officials
In Houston, wayward alligators look to return home, too
Russia: U.S. closure of diplomatic sites a ‘blatantly hostile act’
Iran says warns off U.S. U2 spy plane, drone
In shift, Merkel backs end to EU-Turkey membership talks
Breakfast Blogs
I Saw the Strength of Texas Down in Tivoli Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
On the Lawfare over the Steele Dossier emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Creating Murderers Echidne, at her blog
GOP spinning like a top now that it’s their disaster digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Labor Day in a Gilded Age of shrinking paychecks Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Labor Historians, the White Working Class, and Trump Voters Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Antifa Madness Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
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