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
Germany’s Reichstag burns, giving the Nazis under Adolf Hitler a pretext to seize absolute power; A cease-fire ends the Persian Gulf War; Actress Elizabeth Taylor born; Children’s TV host Fred Rogers dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We deal here with the right of all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to deny them that right in the future.
Breakfast News
Chicago will elect a black woman as its mayor for first time
Decorated transgender troops to testify before Congress
US keeps air pollution standard established under Obama
United Methodist delegates reject recognizing gay marriage
Fiat Chrysler: $4.5B plan would add 6,500 Detroit-area jobs
Georgia House approves new electronic voting machines
Using 1 germ to fight another when today’s antibiotics fail
Passengers band together on train stuck in Oregon mountains
Utah closer to raising alcohol limit in line with most of US
Beetle scourge forces ash loggers to race against time
Experts report spike in harp seal strandings on East Coast
Flood threat prompts Northern California evacuations
Nigeria’s president is re-elected after delayed, bumpy vote
Brexit: Parliament to decide between no deal and delay
Tensions escalate as Indian airstrike hits inside Pakistan
Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries
US suffers setbacks in effort to ban Chinese tech company
Iran’s foreign minister hopes resignation empowers diplomats
Opioid crisis engulfs blockaded Gaza Strip
Breakfast Blogs
We Decided Long Ago That Government Has a Role in Promoting Public Health. Vaccines Are Part of That. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Did Mueller Ask Manafort Any Questions about His Early May 2016 Meeting with Kilimnik? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Ageism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice? Echidne, at her blog
“Take a picture, Dan” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A spy by any other name Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Mueller’s Findings: Why DOJ Non-Disclosure Policy and Grand Jury Secrecy May Not Apply Ryan Goodman and Andy Wright, Just Security
Conway v. Calabresi: D.C. Circuit Upholds the Constitutionality of Mueller’s Appointment Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
Taking Preemptive Action Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Type of Labor Leader We Need Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and oMney
Our Neverending Abortion War Heats Up Again The Rude Pundit, at his blog