The Breakfast Club (Opportunity)

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 10:30am (ET) 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.

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This Day in History

Elvis Presley holds his first major recording session; Birth of the bikini; Enron’s Kenneth Lay dies; Arthur Ashe wins at Wimbledon; Larry Doby follows Jackie Robinson; Baseball’s Ted Williams dies.

Breakfast Tunes

WARNING: Cannons may make dogs bark, scare your mom, leave your neighbor dumbfounded, make cats panic, wake you up in the middle of the night shouting at the top of your lungs because you think you are being robbed, scare the crap out of you, and/or blow up your ears and brains; among other things…

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Breakfast News

Illinois Senate nixes vetoes of budget plan with tax hike US schools rethink meal-debt policies that humiliate kids

Museum exhibits lowrider cars, the artwork they’ve inspired

Arab nations say they have Qatar’s response to their demands

https://apnews.com/fbb32bb07f7047ba945360e8cbd522cf/Ukrainian-police-seize-software-company’s-servers

Iraqi PM congratulates troops on ‘big victory’ in Mosul

Mark Cavendish out of Tour and Peter Sagan disqualified after horror crash

Breakfast Blogs

The Phony Healthcare ‘Compromise’ Is Coming Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Revisiting Obama on the Weakness of American Democracy emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

To Be Presidential… Echidne, at her blog

Revolution for Dummies digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

We the Rugged Individuals Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Medical Care Bargain Hunting With Bret Stephens Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Summer States Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The DVR and Daniel Webster driftglass, at his blog

THE PRESS STILL ADMIRES HIM AND HIS PARTY REFUSES TO ADMITS DEFEAT, SO WE’LL NEVER BE RID OF CHRIS CHRISTIE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog