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
Inmates seize control of Attica prison in upstate New York; Mao Zedong, Communist China’s founding leader, dies; Elvis Presley first appears on TV’s Ed Sullivan Show; Soul singer Otis Redding born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Breakfast News
Dorian topples crane, knocks out power in eastern Canada
AP: Women seek abortions out of state amid restrictions
US mass shooters exploited gaps, errors in background checks
Georgia: Search on for 4 missing after cargo ship overturned
Hospital closings hit hard on the edge of the Rust Belt
Syracuse welcomes Central Park 5 member to coveted campus
Researchers to discuss efforts to find Captain Cook’s ship
Bottle with man’s ashes resumes journey in Gulf of Mexico
China’s trade with US shrinks as tariff war worsens
Typhoon blows across Tokyo area, killing 1, halting travel
Charity ship rescues 50 African migrants in sea off Libya
Moscow votes in protest-shadowed election
Ex-UK minister says Johnson not trying to get a Brexit deal
UK worries Brexit could bring ‘chlorinated chicken’ from US
Breakfast Blogs
Several States Plan to Cancel Republican Primaries in Favor of Donald Trump’s Re-Election Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Donald Trump Was “Colluding” with Roger Stone on Four Different Direct Lines emptywheel aka Marcy wheeler, emptywheel
The Taliban should have sent a beautiful letter digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
In the middle of Pennsylvania Ave. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Camp David Discords Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
PUT RUSSIA ON THE BACK BURNER AND FOCUS ON TRUMP’S SELF-DEALING Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog