The Breakfast Club (World On Fire)

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

Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying two Ancient Roman cities; Hurricane Andrew hits Florida; British troops burn Washington in War of 1812; Pluto demoted as a planet; Pete Rose banned from baseball for life.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.

Eldridge Cleaver

Breakfast News

The Latest: Iowa sees first death of child linked to virus

Emails show businesses held sway over state reopening plans

A year after Elijah McClain’s death, activists want charges

Northern California firefighters dig in ahead of high winds

U.S. National Hurricane Center says storm Marco has become a hurricane

Residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes

Offshore oil and gas production is crimped by Gulf storms

City naming sewage plant after John Oliver

Returning vacationers drive Italy’s surge in COVID cases

India’s virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south

UK leader urges parents to let kids to return to school

New Austrian coronavirus measures snarl traffic at border

South Korea elevates distancing as virus nears spring levels

Experts flag risks in India’s use of rapid tests for virus

Belarus blocks over 50 news websites but protests continue

Video shows armed Belarus president as protests roil capital

Lithuanians form human chain to back democracy in Belarus

UN atomic watchdog chief heading to Iran; seeks more access

6 dead, 10 missing as flooding hits Turkey’s Black Sea coast

Breakfast Blogs

Joe Biden Is Taking a Bigger Gamble Than Many of Us Would Like to Admit Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Running Thread of emptywheel’s Running Threads on the SSCI Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Place Your Bets: What’s Trump’s October Surprise? [UPDATE-2] Rayne, emptywheel

He wanted to make California sleep with the fishes digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Herd insanity: QAnon and Fox Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

19-Year-Old Dem Candidate Who Admitted to Revenge Porn Now Drops Out of Race Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime

Republican Governor Signs Law That ‘Severely’ Criminalizes Dissent, Threatens Voting Rights: ACLU Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime

Medicare For All is not a morality car wash Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Genocide Keeps Paying Off Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Bargaining driftglass, at his blog

Gloom and Boom Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

Biden and Harris Believe You Deserve Sanity in Your Daily Lives The Rude Pundit, at his blog

REPUBLICANS BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS A CONSPIRACY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Oklahoma Has Chance To Rid Itself Of National Joke Jim Inhofe, If It Has A Lick Of Sense Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Don’t Go To Any ‘Save Our Children’ Marches — They Are Not What You’d Think Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Martha McSally Unveils New ‘Skip A Few Meals For My Losing Campaign’ Diet Stephen Robinson, Wonkette