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
A massacre at the Munich Olympics; President Gerald Ford escapes the first of two assassination attempts, weeks apart; Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’ published; Missionary nun Mother Teresa dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Breakfast News
Texas governor resists calls for quick votes after shooting
Some migrant parents deported without kids can return to US
US judge: Terror watchlist violates constitutional rights
Michigan to become 1st state to ban flavored e-cigarettes
Shuttered shelter for migrant kids reopens in Phoenix
California bans fur trapping for recreation, commerce
Groups sue over rules they say could harm belugas in Alaska
Hurricane death toll climbs to 20 in devastated Bahamas
Johnson’s Brexit plans in crisis after 3rd defeat in 2 days
Brexit breathes life back into Scottish independence push
Hong Kong withdraws extradition bill that sparked protests
Peaceful Iceland amazed at weapons in Pence security detail
Iran ratchets up pressure ahead of weekend nuclear deadline
Saudi prince sees Aramco IPO as key to overhaul kingdom
Breakfast Blogs
North Carolina’s Supreme Court Finally Dropped the Big Hammer on Partisan Gerrymandering Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
What a Properly Scoped FISA Abuse Inspector General Report Would Look Like emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Online Pornography As The New Sex Education? Echidne, at her blog
Conservatives with principles? They exist! In the UK. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
NC gerrymandering: Here we go again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
More Mismanagement of the Public Lands by Trump’s BLM Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Subjecting a Candidate’s Record to Scrutiny Is Not “Swiftboating” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Great Moments in Magic Ruralism driftglass, at his blog
North Carolina Judges Piss On GOP’s Election Maps Like They’re On Fire! Jamie Lyn Crofts, Wonkette
Mike Pence Wasn’t ‘Ordered’ To Slip Cash In Trump’s Stocking, He Did It Because He Wanted To. Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
BEHAAAAVE YOURSELVES, It’s The Dems’ Climate Change Town Hall! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
FOR TRUMP, HYPERBOLE IS A TIC Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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