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
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Imperial rule ends in China; Achille Lauro hijackers forced to land; Movie legend Orson Welles dies; Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi born; Actor Christopher Reeve dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Breakfast News
Lights out: Power cut in California to prevent deadly fires
Louisiana becomes new hub in immigrant detention under Trump
California bans pesticide linked to brain damage in children
Alaska Supreme Court hears youth climate change lawsuit
US nuclear, uranium mining industries hope for Trump bailout
UConn to redirect donations from opioid maker owners
Judge weighs renewed Keystone XL oil pipeline arguments
Fall snowstorm blasts Rockies, heading toward Midwest
‘Dumbest’ judge Neely seeks WVa Supreme Court seat again
Squirrels hide more than 200 walnuts under SUV’s hood
Good boy! Dog saves South Carolina veteran during house fire
Goat rams through sliding glass door, naps inside bathroom
Nobel prize honors breakthroughs on lithium-ion batteries
Turkey begins offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria
Jailed Tunisian presidential candidate Karoui leaves prison
Russia lists Navalny’s anti-fraud group as a foreign agent
Boris Johnson’s father joins climate protesters in London
Breakfast Blogs
Syria Update: Turkey Is Blowing the Hell Out of It and the Russians Are Cheering
The Press Gets Utterly Snookered on the White House Rebranding of the Same Old Unrelenting Obstruction of Congressional Prerogatives emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
QOTD: An ignoramus digyb aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
When It Comes to Killing People, Trump Is Acting More Like Bush tristero, Hullabaloo
How To Respond to Armed Threats: Man who brandished gun at driver with Warren sticker charged with felony terroristic threat Spocko, Hullabaloo
White House Letter Distorts Both Law and History on Impeachment Frank O. Bowman III, Just Security
Must the House Vote to Authorize an Impeachment Inquiry? Keith E. Whittington, Lawfare
Profit without honor Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Two Gorsuches Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 561 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Springtime for Erdoğan Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Supreme Court Ready To Rock You, We Mean Really, Throw Rocks At You Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
‘Praise Jesus, Trey Gowdy Said YES!’ And Other News From Trump’s Very Smart Impeachment Lawyers Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Nice Time! Polls Show Elizabeth Warren Looking Pretty Damn ‘Electable’ Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Well Of Course A Bigot Science Denier Is (Acting At) Running The Bureau Of Land Management Doktor Zoom, Wonkette