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
Nazi Blitz on Britain begins in World War II; Mobutu Sese Seko dies; Panama Canal Treaties signed; Rapper Tupac Shakur shot; ESPN debuts; Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated; Rock star Buddy Holly born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Breakfast News
Trump administration moves to detain migrant families longer
’A horrific situation: 4 dead in Cincinnati bank shooting
State says seniors were abandoned during California wildfire
California takes financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires
Major hotels giving panic buttons to staff nationwide
Passengers on 2 flights from Europe arrive sick in Philly
Have you herd? Moose, bighorn sheep pass on migration tips
Side of seagrass please: Scientists find omnivorous shark
Brazilian candidate stabbed, gets to hospital ‘almost dead’
Iraqi protesters set fire to provincial government building
India’s Supreme Court strikes down law that punished gay sex
Judges rule ICC has jurisdiction over Rohingya deportations
NATO Macedonia: Name change a must for membership
Wired Icelanders seek to keep remote peninsula digital-free
Breakfast Blogs
North Carolina Republicans Just Ran Out the Clock on Their Tainted Election Map Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Brett Kavanaugh Called John Yoo His “Magic Bullet” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
5th graders are much more sophisticated digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“A whole new jurisprudence” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Judge Kavanaugh’s Testimony on His Constitutional View of Presidential Immunity is Misleading—and It Also Clinches the Case for Recusal Bob Nauer and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Senate Hearing on Social Media and Foreign Influence Operations: Progress, But There’s A Long Way to Go Evelyn Douek, Lawfare
A Little Light Perjury Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Constitution is failing Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Beltway Media Could Have Saved Millions driftglass, at his blog
I AM A PART OF all that I have met Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Hey, Look Over Here. I’m Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump White House, Too The Rude Pundit, at his blog
WHAT THE HELL DOES KAMALA HARRIS KNOW ABOUT BRETT KAVANAUGH? Evan Hurst, Wonkette