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
Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Breakfast News
1 in 5 nursing homes short on PPE and staff in virus rebound
CDC study suggests inmates should have been tested in mass
Officials: Some who went to huge Sturgis rally have COVID-19
Utah sets pandemic safeguards for people with disabilities
After 5 months, AMC Theaters reopens its doors, cautiously
Young children pose a dilemma for airlines with mask rules
At least 3 people killed in Northern California wildfires
Airbnb bans house parties worldwide, citing virus mandates
Facebook stirs anger, abandons drilling gear on Oregon coast
Florida Keys to release modified mosquitoes to fight illness
France sticks to school openings despite jump in infections
Pandemic’s toll among journalists in Peru is especially high
Thunberg, fellow activists press Merkel over climate action
West African leaders call on Mali junta to free president
Tropical storm whips Mexico’s Baja as 2 Atlantic storms form
Breakfast Blogs
We Need More Politicians Who Can Hear the Vipers When They Hiss Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
SSCI’s Timidity on Trump Tower Moscow emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Crowdsourced Timeline: Torching the USPS [Work in Progress] Rayne, emptywheel
Where GOP goes one, GOP goes all digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Never go back Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
There’s nothing to whipping a fool Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
HBCUs and the Election Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Obama Tells Us We’re in Danger and We Better Fucking Act Like We Are The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Useful Idiot in the Strict Sense of the Term Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
RIGHT-WING SCAMMERS: THEY’RE NOT ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
All Trump Needs Is The Air That He Breathes And To Know That QAnon Loves Him Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Opening A Chase Bank At The Post Office Is Not ‘Postal Banking.’ That Is Not It At All. Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
And On The Fourth Day Of The DNC, The *POST OFFICE* *ARRESTED* *STEVE BANNON* Liz Dye, Wonkette
Another Day, Another Judge Smacking President Loses-A-Lot Upside His Ass Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Trump ‘Cancels’ Goodyear Tires For Not Pledging Allegiance To MAGA Stephen Robinson, Wonkette