The Breakfast Club (Road To Destruction)

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

Nathan Hale hanged in the American Revolution; Iraq invades Iran; President Gerald Ford faces a second assassination attempt in weeks; ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ hits Broadway; Songwriter Irving Berlin dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Thomas Jefferson

Breakfast News

The Latest: Death toll rises to 43 in aftermath of Florence

Flooding: Dam breach at Duke plant; coal ash could spill

When will it end? Florence’s floodwaters rising in Carolinas

Canceling Georgia nuclear plant could cost owners billions

Judges signal they’ll revive Sarah Palin defamation lawsuit

US agency endorses plan to block new mining near Yellowstone

California college moves ‘Prospector Pete’ statue from plaza

Rural Texas town council approves Muslim cemetery plan

Officials prepare to relocate wolves to Isle Royale park

UK leader May hits back on Brexit plan; pound falls

Germans angry over spy chief’s promotion after comments

Maldives prepares for polls seen as test for young democracy

Kremlin slams new US sanctions affecting arms exports

Breakfast Blogs

The New York Times‘ Rosenstein Story Is Just a Game of Telephone Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Shiny Object of the May 2017 Russian Investigation: The Evidence Mostly Came in after August 1 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Sen. Hirono: FBI Should Investigate Death Threats to Dr. Ford As Witness Tampering Spocko, Hullabaloo

Nothing is real And nothing to get hung about Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

And now don’t tell me that all of this was the work of one Edward Whelan Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Noney

Bothsiderism, the never-ending story Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Grand Re-Opening of the “Independent” Granfalloon* driftglass, at his blog

The Calls Are Coming From Inside the (White) House Yastereblyansky, Rectification of Names

Enjoying the Toxic Shit and Coal Water, Carolinas? The Rude Pundit, at his blog

THE BASE DOESN’T LIKE THE ED WHELAN THEORY BECAUSE IT DOESN’T MAKE THE ACCUSER SEEM EVIL ENOUGH Steve M., No More Mister Nice BLog

New York Times Just Handed Trump Rod Rosenstein’s Head On A Stick, So It Can Fuck Right Out Of Here Evan Husrt, Wonkette

Franklin Graham Pretty Sure There’s Nothing Wrong With A Little Rape Between High School Kids Doktor Zoom. Wonkette