The Breakfast Club (Cactus)

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.

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This Day in History

England’s King John signs the Magna Carta; A deadly steamboat fire in New York City; Jordan’s King Hussein weds American Lisa Halaby; Arlington National Cemetery created; Singer Ella Fitzgerald dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

Mo Udall

Breakfast News

Colorado wildfire forces nearly 2K evacuations amid drought

Judge considers public access to data about opioid shipments

Proposed US banking fix for marijuana may not open all doors

Caesars workers in Las Vegas are voting on new contract deal

Work begins to boost airflow at US nuclear repository

Fewer US teens smoking, doing drugs … and drinking milk

Forgotten no more: Shell Oil preserves slave cemeteries

Many animals are shifting from day to night to avoid people

Montana man rescues tired fawn from bed of sewer sludge

Saudi-led troops fight rebel forces south of Yemen’s Hodeida

Polish court rules against man who wouldn’t serve LGBT group

Jordan PM caught between angry public, international lenders

Glass walls, not metal fencing, to surround Eiffel Tower

Argentine Congress OKs elective abortion; now goes to Senate

UK lifts immigration cap for medical workers amid shortages

Breakfast Blogs

Michigan Conservatives Are Striking References to the KKK from History Books Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

We’re Facing Yet Another Question About the Fundamental Moral Character of This Nation James Holmes, Esquire Politics

Shorter Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Don’t Send the PII We Already Stole — Just Send the Intelligence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Light Cycles Quinn Norton, emptywheel

Today’s Anti-Feminism: Young Women’s Leadership Summit And The Lack of Feminist Critique of Islam Echidne, at her blog

This Is Terrorism digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Dear Frank Bruni tristero, Hullabaloo

Guilty until proven innocent Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Enslaved and Forced to Watch Her Husband Dig His Own Grave—And Labeled A Terrorist As A Result Jennifer Daskal and Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare

Radio Rwanda Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

James Comey Committed Misconduct That Affected the 2016 Elections Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Republican Party Cannot Save Itself: Part I driftglass, at his blog

HERE’S WHY CRAZY REPUBLICANS NOW SEEM LIKE CRAZY PERSONALITY CULTISTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

CBP Agrees To Hand Back Almost All Of The $58,000 It Stole From A 64-Year-Old Man At A Cleveland Airport Tim Cushing, Techdirt