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
Thomas Edison says he’s invented the phonograph; Gap revealed on Nixon White House tape; Final victim dies in America’s anthrax scare; Jonathan Pollard arrested; ‘Anything Goes’ opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Breakfast News
Blackouts hit Northern California again during fire danger
Arizona border activist acquitted of harboring immigrants
Native Americans honor 50th anniversary of Alcatraz takeover
Whistleblower raises safety alarm about air traffic control
Divided US House committee backs pot decriminalization
Illinois governor’s order restricts timeout rooms in schools
Nebraska is 1st to share drivers’ records with Census Bureau
Apple detectives comb US Northwest for ‘lost’ varieties
Hong Kong protesters, facing arrest, won’t leave university
Netanyahu challenger fails to form coalition
Colombia protesters hope to channel wave of discontent
Breakfast Blogs
Gordon Sondland Is a Smug Plutocrat Who Was OK With All of It Until He Wasn’t Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Elise Stefanik Makes Case that Don Jr and Eric Trump Must Resign from Trump Organization emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Thanks, Devin. Thanks Jim. It’s all going according to plan. Love, Vlad. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Worser and worser Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trump and GOP Call to ID Whistleblower Exposes Glaring Gaps in Protections Kel McClanahan, Just Security
Gordon Sondland Accuses the President of Bribery Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Bombshell testimony confirms what everybody already knew Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Was a supermajority requirement to remove a president a mistake? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: He was not in a good mood Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
UNDER PRESSURE, TRUMP BREAKS OUT THE NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Chick-Fil-A, Last Bastion Of Christian Values, Falls To Gay Agenda, America Over Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Knew A Girl Named Nikki I Guess You Could Say She Was An Email Fiend Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
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