The Breakfast Club (Do Something)

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

Malcolm X assassinated; President Richard Nixon visits China; Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart makes a tearful confession; Steve Fossett is the first to fly across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.

John Lewis

Breakfast News

‘Excessive fines’ ban applies to states, Supreme Court says

High court rules for retired US marshal in W.Va. tax dispute

Bill would let patients buy cheaper insulin from other countries

Pennsylvania must replace voting machines, lawmakers told

GOP candidate’s son had concerns about political operative

Wisconsin governor vetoes tax plan; early showdown with GOP

Oklahoma Legislature hurries gun carry bill to new governor

Florida governor wants to import drugs from Canada

Muslim group seeks congressional probe on terror watchlist

50M gallons of polluted water pours daily from US mine sites

Thanks in a tank: WWII gunner, now 95, gets a nostalgic ride

Putin sternly warns US against putting missiles in Europe

Britain urges Germany to ease curbs on arms sales to Saudi

Microsoft detects hacking targeting Europe democracy groups

UK’s May, EU chief call latest Brexit talks ‘constructive’

Aid wars: US-Russia vie to ease Venezuelan crisis

French court hits Swiss bank UBS with $5.1 billion penalty

Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future

German court declares man unfit to carry a gun after his dog shot him

Breakfast Blogs

This Administration* Is Arguing With Itself About Climate Change Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Questions to Ask before Reporting a BREAKING Mueller Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

If he’s innocent, shouldn’t the president order the Mueller Report to be made public? digby aka heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Heavier, thicker and fouler Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Unpacking (Some of) the Legal Issues Surrounding Hoda Muthana Steve Vladeck. Just Security

Deposed Times Public Editor On the Corruption of CNN Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Brian Stelter Defends The Commission driftglass, at his blog

Pie Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Suffer and Die Alone, Paul Manafort

MEDIA: FEEL THE MIGHTY POWER OF DONALD TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog