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
Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying two Ancient Roman cities; Hurricane Andrew hits Florida; British troops burn Washington in War of 1812; Pluto demoted as a planet; Pete Rose banned from baseball for life.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Iowa sees first death of child linked to virus
Emails show businesses held sway over state reopening plans
A year after Elijah McClain’s death, activists want charges
Northern California firefighters dig in ahead of high winds
U.S. National Hurricane Center says storm Marco has become a hurricane
Residents flee as Gulf Coast sees possible tandem hurricanes
Offshore oil and gas production is crimped by Gulf storms
City naming sewage plant after John Oliver
Returning vacationers drive Italy’s surge in COVID cases
India’s virus caseload tops 3 million as disease moves south
UK leader urges parents to let kids to return to school
New Austrian coronavirus measures snarl traffic at border
South Korea elevates distancing as virus nears spring levels
Experts flag risks in India’s use of rapid tests for virus
Belarus blocks over 50 news websites but protests continue
Video shows armed Belarus president as protests roil capital
Lithuanians form human chain to back democracy in Belarus
UN atomic watchdog chief heading to Iran; seeks more access
6 dead, 10 missing as flooding hits Turkey’s Black Sea coast
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Is Taking a Bigger Gamble Than Many of Us Would Like to Admit Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Running Thread of emptywheel’s Running Threads on the SSCI Report emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Place Your Bets: What’s Trump’s October Surprise? [UPDATE-2] Rayne, emptywheel
He wanted to make California sleep with the fishes digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Herd insanity: QAnon and Fox Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
19-Year-Old Dem Candidate Who Admitted to Revenge Porn Now Drops Out of Race Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
Republican Governor Signs Law That ‘Severely’ Criminalizes Dissent, Threatens Voting Rights: ACLU Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Medicare For All is not a morality car wash Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Genocide Keeps Paying Off Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Bargaining driftglass, at his blog
Gloom and Boom Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Biden and Harris Believe You Deserve Sanity in Your Daily Lives The Rude Pundit, at his blog
REPUBLICANS BELIEVE EVERYTHING IS A CONSPIRACY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Oklahoma Has Chance To Rid Itself Of National Joke Jim Inhofe, If It Has A Lick Of Sense Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Don’t Go To Any ‘Save Our Children’ Marches — They Are Not What You’d Think Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Martha McSally Unveils New ‘Skip A Few Meals For My Losing Campaign’ Diet Stephen Robinson, Wonkette