The Breakfast Club (Mind Of A Bigot)

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

Hurricane Katrina blows ashore in southeast Louisiana.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Indiana just days away from legalized sports betting

Breakfast News

Dorian aims for US, causes limited damage in Caribbean

Forecasters now say Tropical Storm Dorian could become a Category 3 hurricane before reaching the U.S. mainland

New York law softening pot penalties goes into effect

US agency sees low risk in contaminated blood pressure drugs

Sick and dying workers demand help after cleaning coal ash

Ole Miss seeks review of plan to move Confederate monument

1 of 2 sunken barges removed from Arkansas River in Oklahoma

Tribe seeks to intervene on proposed DAPL expansion

Motel 6 guests can file claims over info shared with ICE

UK’s Johnson moves to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit

Bolsonaro says Amazon nations should decide region’s future

Africa is the ‘fire continent’ but blazes differ from Amazon

Russia: US senators claiming visa ban are on blacklist

Italy’s Conte might be back at helm with Salvini shut out

Yemeni government forces push into key port city of Aden

India’s top court to examine change in Kashmir’s status

Switzerland aims to go climate neutral by 2050

Thousands drenched in red in Spain’s ‘Tomatina’ battle

Breakfast Blogs

Here’s One Way for the Never Trumpers to Find Redemption Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Glenn Greenwald and David Frum Need to Stop Looking to the Mueller Report for FBI’s Counterintelligence Conclusions emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

If this isn’t an impeachable offense, nothing is digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

U.S. Sanctions Against Iran’s Foreign Minister and International Law Steven Ratner, Just Security

Something that wouldn’t be good news for John McCain Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Streisand Effect is a Harsh Mistress Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Trump Despoliation Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The NYT Wishes To Apologize For Forgetting To Mention The “Racist” Part… driftglass, at his blog

Blindingly Obvious Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

House Judiciary Committee Finally Lighting A Fire Under Don McGahn’s Ass Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette

OUR EMOTIONALLY FRAGILE PRESIDENT WILL NEED A LOT OF SCAPEGOATS IF HE LOSES IN 2020 Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog