The Breakfast Club (Statistics)

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

Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama; Former communist official Sergei Kirov is assassinated in Leningrad; Beatlemania arrives in America; Actor and director Woody Allen is born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Rex Stout

Breakfast News

Back-to-back earthquakes shatter roads and windows in Alaska

Another court nixes Trump push to cut ‘sanctuary city’ funds

US judge won’t immediately allow Trump to enforce asylum ban

Fire-scarred California areas escape large-scale rain damage

FBI database to track deadly encounters with police
El Nino teases as Southwestern US remains in drought

US urged to send Ebola experts in as Congo outbreak worsens

UK leader focused on passing Brexit deal despite uncertainty

Romania shuts hospital after babies diagnosed with superbug

Belgian police, protesters clash in Brussels over high taxes

Dutch church holds 24/7 service to shield asylum-seekers

Breakfast Blogs

At Least One Republican Senator Is Doing His Job Charles P, Pierce, Esquire Politics

Some Important Historical Details Michael Cohen Probably Shared with Mueller’s Team emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The suck-up timeline of the Moscow Project digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

“Stronger than a blue wave” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

A Randroid Fraud Departs In A Cloud of Pure Bullshit Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

More fascinating editorial decisions from the Paper of News of Record (TM) Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money

I AM AN HONORABLE CONSERVATIVE, AND ALL OF YOU LIBS ARE EXTREMIST NUTJOBS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog