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
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of murder at his criminal trial; St. Francis of Assisi dies; Germany reunifies; Baseball’s ‘shot heard ’round the world’; ‘Captain Kangaroo’ and ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ hit TV.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Breakfast News
Russia warns US not to intervene as hospital is hit in latest Aleppo blitz
Colombia Peace Deal Is Defeated, Leaving a Nation in Shock
World Bank renews drive against inequality
Syrian children return to school as airstrikes on Aleppo continue
Lead contamination in LA housing project said to put 300 kids at ri
Hurricane Matthew prompts evacuations at Guantánamo Bay
Countries fail to agree on complete ban to protect African lions from global trade
Woman searches for missing 78-year-old turtle she’s had since she was five
Breakfast Blogs
For The Rest Of This Campaign, Trump’s Mental State Will Matter Much More Than His Taxes Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Have You Been Keeping Up with the Batsh*t Oregon Militia Trial? Charles Pierce, Esquire Blog
bor The Trees Have Fallen and The State of NFL Labor bmaz, emptywheel
Victims of the fever swamp digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump’s something for nothing Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
David Brooks: Less Than Zero driftglass, at his blog