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 10:30am (ET) 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
President Richard Nixon says he’ll resign; Thieves stage Britain’s ‘Great Train Robbery’; Nazi saboteurs in the U.S. executed during World War II; Mexico’s Emiliano Zapata and actor Dustin Hoffman born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that’s reprehensible.
Iran executes nuclear scientist who returned to country from US Australian academic and US colleague abducted in Kabul, say reports All Russian athletes to be banned from Paralympic Games in Rio Mexico mudslides triggered by tropical storm Earl leave dozens dead NSA denies ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ stockpile of security vulnerabilities
Breakfast Blogs
Are You Ready for the End of the Republican Party? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Drone Rule Book, Working Thread emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
People are taking a second look at late term abortion digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
‘Who do you protect? Who do you serve?’ Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down driftglass, at his blog
Since when does the U.S. Constitution allow us to sign away our rights for the privilege of survival? The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog