The Breakfast Club (Ferocious Enemy)

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 Tonkin Gulf incident sparks U.S. escalation of the Vietnam War; Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invades Kuwait; JFK’s PT-109 boat sunk; President Warren G. Harding dies; ‘Wild Bill’ Hickok killed in Deadwood.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James A. Baldwin

Breakfast News

US: 3 Ukrainians arrested in hacking plot that hit 47 states

New York prosecutors eye illicit foreign lobbying

Dispute over 3D-printed guns raises many legal issues

Court strikes down Trump push to cut ‘sanctuary city’ funds

More than 1,000 homes torched in California wildfires

Police: Worker at child immigration facility molested teen

Iowa woman promoted to nation’s lone all-male Supreme Court

Maryland officials criticize upstream states for bay debris

Pets displaced by California fires find a ‘little bit of home’ at strip mall

Deadly riots rock Zimbabwe’s capital as vote results delayed

Leaked chats show alleged Russian spy seeking hacking tools

Dead Russian reporters researched mercenaries, mining in CAR

Kosovo’s president rejects ethnic land swap with Serbia

World’s most prestigious maths medal is stolen minutes after professor wins it

Sweden’s highest point set to lose title as glacier melts

Last year was warmest ever that didn’t feature an El Niño, report finds

Breakfast Blogs

It Won’t Matter, But Medicare for All Would Cost Less and Cover 30 Million More Americans Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Did GRU Learn that Democrats Had Hired Christopher Steele When They Hacked DNC’s Email Server? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Sharing the Limelight? Women in the Film Industry Echidne, at her blog

All That’s Left Is the Vote George Parker, The New Yorker

They can always get him on tax evasion Dennis Hartley, Hullabaloo

They seem so nice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Dear Mr. Mueller, tristero, Hullabaloo

Who Says Collusion is a Crime: The Justice Department Ryan Goodman. Just Security

What Politics and the Media Still Get Wrong About Abu Zubaydah Charles R. Church, Lawfare

Democracy May Be Coming to Michigan Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 296 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Hugh Hewitt Cyborg Now in Full-Blown Thrash Mode driftglass, at his blog

Summer Camp and Other Lies (and a Truth) About Our Sanctioned Child Abuse The Rude Pundit, at his blog

I Don’t Buy This Explanation Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog

QAnon Morons Show Up At Trump Rally, Ready To Battle Imaginary Pedophile Cabal Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Wednesday Stupid Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names

THE RISE OF QANON IS A SIGN THAT TRUMPISM MIGHT NOT BE PRIMARILY ABOUT TRUMP AT ALL Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Inspector General Says NSA Still Hasn’t Implemented Its Post-Snowden Internal Security Measures Tim Cushing, Techdirt