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.
This Day in History
Highlights of this day in history: Alabama Gov. George Wallace makes a symbolic stand against racial integration; A Buddhist monk immolates himself in South Vietnam; Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed; Actor John Wayne dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Breakfast News
US Supreme Court will hear Montana arsenic cleanup case
Democrats press to retain longtime abortion funding ban
Border state challenges quick-release asylum practices
Medical pot laws no answer for US opioid deaths, study finds
AP: 3 million US students don’t have home internet
Woodstock 50 in doubt but organizers say in talks with venue
120 whoopie pies are missing after fairground booth break-in
Netherlands vegetable seed developer wins World Food Prize
How Britain’s Conservatives will choose their next leader
Kazakhstan: Tokayev named winner of presidency amid protests
Islamic State expands reach in Afghanistan, threatening West
Some shops reopen in Sudan’s cities despite strike call
Central Americans pursue US dream despite Mexico crackdown
Vatican rejects gender change to alarm of LGBT Catholics
Extradition bill pushes Hong Kong to a political crisis
Breakfast Blogs
The 2020 Democrats Have Realized That a Return to ‘Normal’ Is a Luxury This Country Can’t Afford Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Poltics
Beryl Howell’s Whack-a-Mole Grand Juries emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Now that they’re calling Trump’s bluff … digby aka Heather Digby Partom, Hullabaloo
“A poor country of its own kind” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
L’Affaire d’Assange: Why His Extradition May Be Blocked John T. Nelson, Hullabaloo
Ken Cuccinelli and the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998 Steve Vladeck, Lawfare
The Labour Party and Brexit Dave Brockington, Lawyers, Guns and Money
What an actual meritocracy might look like Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Art of the Shakedown Yastreblyanasky, The Rectification of Names
IF DEMOCRATS CAN’T DREAM BIG, DON’T GIVE TRUMP ALL THE BLAME Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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