The Breakfast Club (Something To Say)

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

Patricia Hearst gets prison time; Author F. Scott Fitzgerald born; ’60 Minutes’ premieres; Baseball’s Dodgers play last Brooklyn game; Muppets creator Jim Henson born; Children’s author Dr. Seuss dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Breakfast News

Train derails in NW Iowa, dumping sand, railcars into river

Florence the week after: Thousands brace for more flooding

Virginia school district’s bid to arm teachers rejected

As aid checks go out, farmers worry bailout won’t be enough

Bill targets ‘Kushner loophole’ allowing false filings

Many states’ governor’s races become proxy battle over Trump

National park in Hawaii reopens after monthslong eruption

Iran’s president blames US after attack on military parade

Spain saves some 440 migrants; new crackdown on rescue boat

Stop Brexit? UK’s Labour party mulls backing new referendum

OPEC, allies agree not to further increase oil production

German government reaches deal to solve spy chief dispute

3 Greek journalists set free after minister’s complaint

Tackling climate change to be key talking point at UN summit

Breakfast Blogs

Dr. Ford Is Outplaying These Republican Senators. Eventually They May Realize That. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

On KT McFarland’s Belated Unforgetting of the Truth emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

They are all lying sacks of fetid garbage digby ala Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

They’d better schedule those overseas vacations Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Hurdles to Removing a President Under the 25th Amendment Matthew Kahn, Lawfare

Kavanaugh Kooked? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Gossip Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

Maine And Vermont Have This Strange Independent Streak Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

BRET STEPHENS’S DUBIOUS BELIEF SYSTEM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog