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
Martin Luther King Jr. gives speech before assasination; Bruno Richard Hauptmann electrocuted for kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son; President Harry Truman signs Marshall plan; Jesse James shot to death; Pony Express begins service; Actor Marlon Brando born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
Breakfast News
Lightfoot wins Chicago mayor race; pledges end to corruption
White-power symbol found near fire at social justice center
Alabama lawmakers seek to outlaw almost all abortions
US expands ‘catch and release’ amid surge in migrants
Delay sought on ruling allowing high-capacity ammo magazines
Pittsburgh approves gun restrictions; lawsuits expected
Kentucky judge rules against unvaccinated student in lawsuit
UK’s May seeks cross-party talks to avert ‘no-deal’ Brexit
Maduro loyalists strip Venezuela’s Juan Guaido of immunity
Canada’s ex-attorney general ousted from Trudeau’s caucus By ROB GILLIESyesterday
US aid cuts will spur Central America migration, experts say
Algerian president steps down amid protests, army pressure
Mozambique cholera cases now above 1,400; vaccines arrive
Berlin zoo unveils name of latest polar bear cub
Breakfast Blogs
The Supreme Court Just Went Medieval on Executions and the Eighth Amendment Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Politics Of The Green New Deal: We Can’t Pay For That Ed Walker, emptywheel
The Sultan of Brunei And Stoning of Adulterers. A Feminist Reminder. Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s most dangerous base strategy digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Florida House to vote on giving more teachers guns, just days after armed teacher injured child Spocko, Hullabaloo
The dope thinks you’re a dupe Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The House Oversight Committee Squeeze on White House Security Practices Andy Wright, Just Security
Cameron’s Folly Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Kook Kronikles Kontinued Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Texas and Racial Violence Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Beware of Brooks Bearing Gifts driftglass, at his blog
International Fact-Checking Day Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
The Trump-Forsaken, Flood-Fucked Farmers and Tribes The Rude Pundit, at his blog
A CRISIS IS COMING AND IT WILL BE PARTLY TRUMP’S FAULT, BUT HE MIGHT BENEFIT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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