The Breakfast Club (Home Again)

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.

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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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

Breakfast News

US judge stalls enforcement of Trump asylum restrictions

Pentagon says troops at US border to cost about $210 million

As Facebook faces fire, heat turns up on No. 2 Sandberg

Tech giants plunge again, pushing market into red for year

Americans, Canadians are warned: Don’t eat romaine lettuce

Possible Russian president of Interpol raises alarm in West

Rain could hamper search for victims of California wildfire

Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria

Breakfast Blogs

Let’s Have a Look at These ‘Revolutionaries’ Coming for Nancy Pelosi Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Leo’s Lane: Balls and Strikes versus Checks and Balances emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

I’ve been saying this from the get: Trump seriously wants to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Democracy: for better and for worse Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Asylum Seekers Being Turned Away No Matter Where They Cross the Border Katherine Hawkins, Just Security

New Mueller Investigation Resource Page Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare

Former MSU president Lou Anna Simon charged with two felonies for lying about Nassar investigation Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: Break’s Over driftglass, at his blog

THERE’S ONLY ONE WIDE-CIRCULATION NARRATIVE ON LATE VOTE COUNTS, AND IT’S THE REPUBLICAN NARRATIVE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Trump’s Completely Batshit and Evil Statement About Saudi Arabia and the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi The Rude Pundit, at his blog