The Breakfast Club (Standing Up)

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

Four black girls killed in a church blast in Alabama; President George W. Bush vows massive rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina; Nazi Germany adopts Nuremberg laws; Agatha Christie and Oliver Stone born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Honore de Balzac

Breakfast News

4 dead as Hurricane Florence drenches the Carolinas

Everyone wants answers: State, feds hunt for gas blast cause

Judge hails deal giving split families second shot at asylum

Census citizenship controversy likely to face New York trial

Dallas police face ire over portrayal of man shot by officer

Regulators keep watch on toxic waste sites during hurricane

San Francisco statue that some call racist is removed

Officials shed little light on closure of solar observatory

Ferocious typhoon slams into northeastern Philippines

France’s Macron admits system of torture during Algeria war

Isolated and unseen, Yemenis eat leaves to stave off famine

Defying dangers, Idlib residents protest Syria’s Assad

No joke as ex-comic becomes Slovenia’s new prime minister

Fighting breaks out in South Sudan 2 days after peace deal

Breakfast Blogs

If You Want to Defang Andrew Cuomo, the New York Primary Results Are Good News Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Paul Manafort’s $46 Million Plea Deal emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

What Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner and Neil Irwin Don’t Get Ed Walker, emptywheel

Why Does My Pesto No Longer Love me? A Culinary Call For Help. Echidne, at her blog

GOP worthless from top to bottom digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

In New York state, six incumbents go down Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Executive Privilege and the Public Interest: Why the President Can’t Block Release of the Mueller Report Jessica Marsden and Andy Wright, Just Security

The Watergate ‘Road Map’ and the Coming Mueller Report Stephen Bates, Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare

Shorter Susan Collins: Democracy is Extortion Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Natural Disasters Are Human Disasters Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of the Bridgeport Empire? driftglass, at his blog

For the Record: Sanctions Rise Again Yatreblyansky, Rectification of Names

UM … ABOUT BRETT KAVANAUGH’S CHARACTER WITNESS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Happy Weekend, Donald Trump! Paul Manafort’s Plea Agreement Says You Are WELL AND TRULY FUCKED! Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Canada Legalized Weed, So Guess Who’s Gonna Be A Huge Narc About It, Man? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette