The Breakfast Club (Innocent Trust)

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

President Bill Clinton’s grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinsky scandal aired on TV; Authors H.G. Wells and Stephen King born; ‘Monday Night Football’ premieres; Actor-comedian Bill Murray born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool. Stephen King

Material below the fold maybe NSFW.

Breakfast News

Florence-weary South Carolina could get more record flooding

California makes people ask for straws, sodas with kid meals

Floodwaters inundate lake at NC power plant, raising alarm

Bye bye bugs? Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining

Yellowstone thermal spring erupts for 4th time in 60 years

China distances children from families to subdue Muslim west

Despite strong laws, domestic violence in Brazil is rampant

Philippine villages at risk of landslides forcibly evacuated

Plight of jailed Catalans strains dialogue with Spain

Egypt court orders release of former president’s sons

Japan’s Abe re-elected as party head, to stay on as PM

Breakfast Blogs

There’s a Disturbance in the Force Out There in Republicanland Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Committee Playing Games with Perjury Referrals Swears They Can Make Mark Judge Tell the Truth without Testifying emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler,
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On the Kavanaugh Nomination And Women’s Reproductive Rights. Or Back to the Basics. Post One. Echidne, at her blog

Thanks Republican women! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Advanced Kavanaugh calculus Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Does Trump Have Legal Authority to Follow Through on John Bolton’s Threats to the Int’l Criminal Court? Marty Lederman, Just Security

Kavanaugh’s Mentor Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Just for one day Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Metamorphosis II driftglass, at his blog

D’Stort D’Newsa: The Puerilizing of Political Discourse Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

AN OCTOBER DAMP SQUIB? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Mazie Hirono All Up Chuck Grassley’s Butt Like ALOHA, MOTHERFUCKER! Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Ladies! Get EMPOWERED By Losing Your Reproductive Rights And Being Groped! Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Flood Victims Cope With Toxic Coal Ash, Pigshit, And Donald Trump Doktor Zoom, Wonkette