The Breakfast Club (A Million Dreams)

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.

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This Day in History

Uncle Sam cartoon debuts; Law prohibiting teaching evolution goes into effect; Deadly rampage at Scottish elementary school; Brigadoon opens on Broadway.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Jack Kerouac

Breakfast News

In Kentucky, teacher discontent swells over pay and benefits

Michigan universities seek delay on Nassar-inspired bills

Hawaii declines requests for records on false missile alert

Immigrants sue US over end to temporary protected status

Judge: Trump administration violated law over smog findings

Ag Department kills animal welfare rule for organic meat

US sets new record for censoring, withholding gov’t files

National Geographic acknowledges past racist coverage

Xi Jinping’s rise shatters hopes for democracy in China

British PM: Russia ‘highly likely’ behind ex-spy’s poisoning

Hong Kong democracy movement loses ground in key by-election

Ruling coalition party wants early vote over Slovakia crisis

Fearing trade war, EU warns of protectionism ‘dead end’

Afghan forces retake district offices from Taliban; 8 killed

Breakfast Blogs

Trump’s Latest Voter Suppression Plan Smells Dictatorial Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

How the DNC Hack Skeptics’ Dominant Theory Sinks Stone emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

What’s Bad For The Goose Is Not Bad For The Gander: Gendered Coverage of US Politicians’ Sins. Echidne, at her blog

Trumpism in the mainstream right digby aka Heather Digby Heather, Hullabaloo

Killing a parasite, part 2 — How to implement student debt cancellation Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo

Epistemology in the Trump era Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Judicial Review, Democracy, and the Fragility of Judicial Power Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

IT’S HARD TO STOP DEMAGOGIC KLEPTOCRATS — UNLESS THEY’RE AS INEPT AS TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog