The Breakfast Club (Blackmail)

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

The Pentagon Papers hits newsstands amid the Vietnam War; Thurgood Marshall nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court; The ‘Miranda’ warning; Pioneer 10 leaves solar system; Swing legend Benny Goodman dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Jerrold Nadler

Breakfast News

Maine becomes 8th state to legalize assisted suicide

Illinois governor signs law expanding access to abortion

Democrats rebuff GOP push for low-yield nuclear weapons

Lawmakers challenge Trump official over Saudi arms sale

Oklahoma base set for migrant site was WWII internment camp

Businesses showing discontent with Trump’s trade policies

3 life sentences without parole for man who killed 3 Muslims

UK House of Commons rejects bid to rule out no-deal Brexit today

Hong Kong protesters vow to keep fighting extradition law

Sick Gaza child caught in Israeli permit system dies alone

5-year-old dies of Ebola as outbreak crosses Congo border

Hundreds detained in Moscow protest over journalist’s case

Japan premier warns US, Iran ‘accidental conflict’ possible

Breakfast Blogs

F-35 Update: Don’t Fly Too Fast or It Might Fall Apart Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Women’s Soccer. Or On Fair Pay And Using A Doll’s Head As A Ball Echidne, at her blog

“If the president does it it’s not illegal”digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Getting what you pay for (or don’t) Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Marik String Appointment as State Department’s Top Lawyer Raises Questions John T. Nelson, Just Security

American Concentration Camps Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Moeny

Time For Steve Schmidt to Start Stealing Office Supplies… driftglass, at his blog

The Conservative Case Against Witches, and Other Arcana Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Proposal: Stop Being Assholes About Immigration The Rude Pundit, at his blog

IRONICALLY, IF TRUMP LOSES IN 2020, IT COULD BE BECAUSE HE DIDN’T LIE ENOUGH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog