The Breakfast Club (Imagination)

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

The Spanish Civil War begins; Sen. Ted Kennedy’s passenger dies when he drives his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island; South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and musician Ricky Skaggs born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Hunter S. Thompson

Breakfast News

Immigrant children describe hunger and cold in detention

MGM sues Vegas shooting victims in push to avoid liability

Judge asked to keep public away from ex-nuke weapons plant

US Army reverses course on discharging 1 immigrant recruit

Deadly Ferguson Fire Threatens Yosemite National Park Communities

EU, US relations sinking further after divisive Trump tour

Nicaraguan forces violently retake symbolic city

Rescue group: Libya left migrants to die in Mediterranean

Russian prosecutors want to question US intel agents

Japan, EU sign trade deal to eliminate nearly all tariffs

https://apnews.com/2389e1938b7f4d57a66fb893f59c68e4/Nowhere-to-run:-Rohingya-hunker-down-as-monsoon-arrives

Iceberg looming over Greenland village is spotted from space

Astronomers Serendipitously Discover 12 Moons Around Jupiter

The Longest Full ‘Blood Moon’ Of The Century Is Happening This Month

Breakfast Blogs

The Words of Republican Congressmen Are Useless. So, Unfortunately, Are Barack Obama’s. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

How to Charge Americans in Conspiracies with Russian Spies?
emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, amptywheel

And Then Trump Said:. Or On the Helsinki Meeting And Its Aftermath. Echidne, at her blog

About that Magnitsky thing digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

American Betrayal Tom Sullivan, HullabalooExclusive: Trump White House’s Intelligence Chief Is Leaving Kate Brannen and Spencer Ackerman, Just Security

Standards for Impeachment: Trump’s Defense of Putin in the Face of Russia’s Electoral Attacks Bob Bauer, Lawfare

Shit shots count if the table’s tilted just pay the man who levels the floor Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Our Broken Health Care System, Part the Infinity Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

What idiot says I have to like you to prosecute you? The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog

First House Republican Backs Effort To Restore Net Neutrality Karl Bode, Techdirt