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
Britain enacts the Stamp Act on its American colonies; The ‘Garbage Barge’; Skater Tara Lipinski reaches the record books; The Beatles release ‘Please Please Me’; Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A revolution is not an event. It’s a process. And it takes its time.
Breakfast News
Missouri governor declares state of emergency amid flooding
Alabama bill would allow tax refunds to fund border wall
Ole Miss leader agrees Confederate statue should be moved
Tribes urge US to ban drilling around sacred New Mexico site
Interior boss order aims to protect US public land access
Hungry wolves may get new home at Isle Royale National Park
Report: Great Lakes feeling effects of rapid climate warming
California city to shut car access to ‘super bloom’ area
Europe offers UK a little more time for Brexit
Venezuelan opposition aide is seized, US and allies protest
Boeing to make safety feature standard on troubled Max jets
Ex-President Temer arrested in Brazil on corruption charges
Poland snubs Russia before World War II commemoration
Italian citizenship urged for boy whose SOS call saved lives
Mexico’s last penal colony starts new life as nature center
German whiskey booming as micro distilleries keep popping up
Breakfast Blogs
Boeing’s ‘Optional’ Safety Equipment on the 737 Max Is a Monument to Corporate Greed Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why My Post Predicting the Mueller End Game Won’t Predict Anything emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Family Values Boyz: Trump and Bolsonaro Echidne, at her blog
But his WhatsApps! digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
When you’re president, you can’t do anything Tmo Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Information Security Administration Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Burning a witch Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Other Batshit Things Trump Said at His Latest Batshit Speech Besides Shitting All Over John McCain The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Well, Ari lied, anyhow Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMP IN A LANDSLIDE! (OR MAYBE NOT.) Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog