The Breakfast Club (The Other Side Of Life)

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

Paris liberated during World War II; A first swim across the English Channel; Actor Sean Connery, composer Leonard Bernstein, and musician Elvis Costello born; Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ released.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

Breakfast News

Google tells Toomey hackers tried to infiltrate staff email

Hurricane Lane floods homes as others take to the waves

Deadline looming, NJ Transit rejected for rail funding grant

Odds of shortage increase for vital river in US Southwest

APNewsBreak: University accepted $458K from eugenics fund

Trump administration agrees to protect West Coast humpbacks

Treasury sanctions target Islamic State recruiters

Australians lash out over latest leadership change

Zimbabwe court unanimously upholds president’s election win

Myanmar crackdown splits Rohingya with little hope of return

Huge wildfire southwest of Berlin sets off WWII arms blasts

UN official: Palestinian refugee issue can’t be wished away

Venezuelan migrants pour into Peru before new rules enforced

Migrants aboard Italian coast guard ship begin hunger strike

Mount Etna volcano roars into action with ash and lava

Breakfast Blogs

The Trump White House Doesn’t Want Untainted Elections Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Trump Team’s Strategic Errors: Special Master Edition emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

We Already Know Trump Is Betraying His Country William Saletan, Slate

Steve Bannon and Michele Bachmann Promoting Brazil’s Far-Right Presidential Candidate Peter Montgomery, Right Wing Watch

Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The scheme is a scam Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Memory is the Liberal Superpower: On the Subject of Impeachment driftglass, at his blog

ONE THING COULD MAKE THE GOP BASE TURN AGAINST TRUMP, AND TUCKER CARLSON HAS IDENTIFIED IT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

We Need To Talk About Trump’s Pecker Protector Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Oh Hey, Brett Kavanaugh Was All Up In Hillary Clinton’s Vagina Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Reality Winner Will Spend Five Years In Jail For Leaking Info Government Officials Released Publicly Tim Cushing, Techdirt