The Breakfast Club (To Be Free)

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

First steps toward building the Berlin Wall during the Cold War; Cuba’s Fidel Castro born; Spain’s Cortez captures what’s now Mexico City; Director Alfred Hitchcock born; Baseball’s Mickey Mantle dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

Lucy Stone

Breakfast News

Strongest-ever earthquake hits Alaska’s North Slope region

Crews make progress battling Southern California wildfire

‘Touch the sun’: NASA spacecraft hurtles toward our star

Orca back to feeding, frolicking after carrying dead calf

Dog running on interstate can’t resist lure of stuffed teddy

Wildfire forces Greek villages on island of Evia to evacuate

5 nations sign deal on Caspian Sea water, fishing rights

Malians vote in presidential runoff amid attacks, threats

Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak taking place in a war zone

Lombok lifted 10 inches by quake that killed nearly 400

Breakfast Blogs

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Running for Congress. She’s Not Here to Pump Up Your Wingnut Book Sales. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Like a Rat-Fucking Stone: Russians and Roger Reading from the Same Voter Suppression Script emptywheel aka Mary Wheeler, emptywheel

Nunes is an accomplice not a patriot digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Common Sense from a Politician tristero, Hullabaloo

Common Sense from a Politician tristero, Hullabaloo

Les misérables riche Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

DHS Spins the Border Numbers… Again Andrew Boyle, Just Security

Is It Time for a Space Force? Robert Farley, Lawfare

The Election of Donald Trump Was a Crushing Blow to the Neoliberal Order Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Maybe Millennials Are No Good After All Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

DON JR. WILL SOMEDAY BE THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE IF HE AVOIDS PRISON (AND MAYBE IF HE DOESN’T) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Insult to Injury Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

D.C. Restaurants To Charlottesville 2.0 Marchers: Nazi Punks Fuck Off Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette