The Breakfast Club (Brains)

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

Nine black students escorted into Little Rock’s Central High School; President Woodrow Wilson collapses; Author William Faulkner born; TV’s Barbara Walters and movie actor-producer Michael Douglas born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Walter Lippmann

Breakfast News

US official expects ‘hundreds more’ cases of vaping illness

Massachusetts temporarily banning sale of vaping products

Huge nature reserve shrinks bison plan after pushback

TVA holds meetings to build public trust in coal ash storage

Puerto Rico braces for flooding, landslides from Karen

Deported Army veteran returns to US in bid to become citizen

Top UK court: Johnson’s suspension of Parliament was illegal

Pakistan PM warns of war with India over disputed Kashmir

Google wins case over EU’s ‘right to be forgotten’ rules

Furor over Trump puts Ukraine’s leader in a tough spot

Ocean Viking docks in Sicily, disembarks migrants

Breakfast Blogs

Nancy Pelosi’s Impeachment Announcement Was a Moment of Constitutional Leadership Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Judge Trenga’s Bijan Kian Decision May Hurt, Not Help, Mike Flynn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Impeachment. Take #238. Echidne, at her blog

Trump’s impeachment tantrum can’t hide that he screwed the pooch digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

So What? tristero, Hullabaloo

They’re running the same play again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

An Unaccountable Office Crafted a Secret Law to Conceal the Whistleblower Complaint Mark Joseph Stern, Slate

The Swiftboating of Joe Biden Viola Gienger and Ryan Goodman, Just Security

Getting to the Bottom of the (Attempted) McCabe Prosecution Scott R. Anderson and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare

The Ongoing Adventures of Hugh Hewitt: The Republican Cyborg Sent From The Future to Destroy America (™) driftglass, at his blog

Got Paranoia? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Let’s Do This Impeachment Thing The Rude Pundit, at his blog

​Trump SCAAAAAAARED Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Breaking New York Times Scoop: Trump Doesn’t Care If Journalists Live Or Die Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

WE MIGHT HAVE IMPEACHMENT NOW BECAUSE THEY FOUND A WAY TO MAKE IT CENTRIST Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog