The Breakfast Club (Advantage)

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

Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller born; Word of what becomes known as ‘The Roswell Incident’; North Korea’s Kim Il Sung dies; Ziegfeld stages first ‘Follies.’

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

Breakfast News

Supreme Court lifts block on Wisconsin ‘cocaine mom’ law during appeal

US judge rejects Texas professors’ bid to halt student gun carry

Appeals court refuses to weigh in on Trump travel ban rules

Struggling department store chain Sears closing more stores

Georgia health commissioner named CDC director in Atlanta

Phoenix hits 117 degrees Friday, breaks record set in 1905

https://apnews.com/6732780e340f4fc785c9c4ab846b2f65/Over-120-nations-adopt-first-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons

IS attack underscores fragility of Iraqi security forces

Qatar crisis raises questions about defining terroris

3 gored in Pamplona’s first running of the bulls of 2017

Breakfast Blogs

You Are Now Free to Have No Health Insurance Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Trump Was Worried HR McMaster or Fiona Hill Would Spy on His Conversation with Putin emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Let’s not forget who dropped the ball on North Korea digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Skimpier health care? Freedom! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/07/cuomobowles-20 Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Algorithm That Generates David Brooks’ Columns Has Gone Mad drfitglass, at his blog

RUSSIAN STATE-RUN MEDIA DOES BETTER JOB OF SPINNING TRUMP-PUTIN MEETING THAN TEAM TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

House Appropriation Committee Demolishes Hollywood’s Excuses For Moving Copyright Office Out Of Library Of Congress Mike Masnick, Techdirt