The Breakfast Club (Clueless)

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

First victim dies in post-Sept. 11th anthrax scare; VP candidates spar over JFK; The Beatles release ‘Love Me Do’; ‘Monty Python’ premieres; Baseball’s Barry Bonds tops single-season runs record

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Breakfast News

Purdue opioid deal blasted as records show $13B to Sacklers

US government opens California land to oil, gas drilling

Western governors: States not consulted on nuclear waste

udge declines to block fake-meat law; appeal is filed

Ban may stop cutting of Capitol Christmas tree in New Mexico

Yellow cedar rejected for threatened species listing

Army veteran deported after drug conviction now a US citizen

Hong Kong suspends trains, appeals to public after rioting

Violence escalates in Iraq even after top cleric urges calm

For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother

Ukraine reviews cases on owner of firm that hired Biden son

Breakfast Blogs

If Ron Johnson Keeps This Up, Trump Could Be in Leavenworth by Christmas Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Trump Specifically Ensured Republicans Wouldn’t Know about His Extortion emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Hitting the Fan: Volker’s Text Messages Released Rayne, emptywheel

Mike Pence goes down with the ship digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The deliverable Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Breaking News: Ukraine Prosecutor General Announces Audit of Cases Including Firm Linked to Hunter Biden Ryan Goodman, Just Security

Recent Ukrainian Perspectives on the Trump-Ukraine Scandal Masha Simonova, Lawfare

Elizabeth Warren began in Two Thousand Sixteen, (which was rather late for her), between the end of the Sanders campaign and Brittany Howard’s first solo LP Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

My Conversation with a Trump Supporter Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

How the American Gestapo Operates Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Peak David Brooks driftglass, at his blog

Ukraine Puzzle Piece Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

IN 2020, WILL JOHN ROBERTS DO MORE OUTREACH TO MODERATES ON TRUMP’S BEHALF THAN TRUMP DOES? Steve M., No More Mister nice Blog

Oh NOW You Want To Hear About The Treasury Whistleblower? Well OK! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette

​Quid Pro Qu-OOOOLY SH*T! Let’s Read Some State Department Texts About Trump’s Ukraine Crimes! Evan Hurst, Wonkette