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.
This Day in History
Wright brothers conduct the first successful manned, powered flight of the airplane. U.S. test-fires the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile; Simon Bolivar dies in Colombia; television’s Tiny Tim marries his fiancee, Miss Vicky.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Breakfast News
All evacuation orders lifted in deadly California wildfire
Higher percentage of California pot passing safety tests
Idaho test reactor is pivotal in US nuclear power strategy
Worries about ballot security overshadow disputed House race
For sale: Restored home of Salem witch trials refugee
Talks adopt ‘rulebook’ to put Paris climate deal into action
UK ministers seek to downplay chance of second Brexit vote
Taliban say ‘another’ meeting in Middle East with US
Remove or keep a statue? South Africa debates painful legacy
Iraq lays cornerstone to rebuild iconic Mosul mosque
Breakfast Blogs
Conservative Elites Will Go to Amazing Lengths to Deny People Basic Healthcare Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bumped! Rudy’s Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Strategy emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump is making America better, just not the way he thinks he is digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The third insurgency Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Our Women in Washington Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
JUST A REMINDER OF WHO LED THE POLLING A YEAR BEFORE THE LAST IOWA CAUCUSES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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