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
Arab oil embargo fuels energy crisis; Americans clinch revolutionary victory at Saratoga; Deadly quake hits northern California; Mobster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion; Playwright Arthur Miller born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Breakfast News
Chicago teachers to strike in nation’s 3rd largest district
Scrutiny of vaccine exemptions banishes some from schools
Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch
California earthquake alerts to become available statewide
Colorado appeals ruling on presidential electors
Lawsuit challenges state’s use of solitary confinement
Mormon church opposes Utah LGBTQ ‘conversion therapy’ ban
Grand Teton National Park removing non-native mountain goats
Syrian forces enter key border town, blocking Turkish plans
Brexit talks inch closer to a deal ahead of summit
Frustration and pride in Canada after a year of legal pot
Chinese snooping tech spreads to nations vulnerable to abuse
North Korea seen as weak link as swine fever spreads in Asia
US resumes assistance to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
In Iraq, concern that Syria chaos would bring back IS
Da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” drawing can go on loan to Louvre
Breakfast Blogs
The President* Is at Least Half-Mad. It’s Time to Take the Car Keys. Charles P, Pierce, Esquire Politics
On the Potential Viability of Foreign Agent Charges for Rudy Giuliani emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Lev Parnas Had A Remarkable Start On His Path To Fraud Guarantee Jim White, emptywheel
Foreign Policy chaos digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Just a Reminder tristero, Hullabaloo
Trump threatens whistleblowers and witnesses, isn’t that a crime? #AskPreet Bharara Spocko, Hullabaloo
All the Trump fraud news that isn’t Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
United Nations Backslides on Human Rights in Counterterrorism Ben Saul, Lawfare
Curating the madness Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Now my name, it is Mulvaney and I’m known quite famously Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Debate blogging Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
The Madman and the Turks The Rude Pundit, at his blog
LAST NIGHT’S DEBATE: NOT ENOUGH TRUMP-BASHING? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Michael Flynn’s Batsh*t Lawyer Has OUTDONE HERSELF Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Trump Not Sure If Rudy Giuliani Is Literal Actual Foreign Agent ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Trump Tells Kurds To Go Pound Sand, Since That’s All He’s Left Them Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Mitch McConnell Wants Pelosi To Lay Off Trump, Start Passing Legislation He Can Kill Stephen Robinson, Wonkette