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
France falls to Nazi Germany on what becomes a day of several key events during World War II; Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in their boxing rematch; Entertainers Judy Garland and Fred Astaire die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Everything does go in a circle.
Breakfast News
Court tosses black man’s murder conviction over racial bias
Missouri rejects license renewal for lone abortion clinic
Justices: Landowner can take property case to federal court
Justices: Proof needed that person knew he couldn’t have gun
House Democrats unveil $4.5B border measure
Chicago mayor says police won’t assist ICE in migrant sweep
Explosions, fire rock US oil refinery; gas prices could rise
Texas sending another 1,000 National Guard troops to border
US agency seeks ‘hosts’ for rotting whales amid die-off
LGBTQ news coverage still evolving 50 years after Stonewall
Firefighter uses YouTube duck calls to rescue ducklings
Georgians keep protesting despite speaker’s resignation
Mexico says National Guard deployment is complete
Thousands call for climate action, target German coal mine
UN agencies urge Italy to let migrants get off rescue boat
Europeans urge US, Iran to step back from confrontation
India uses yoga diplomacy to assert rising global influence
Emaciated polar bear found in Russia taken for treatment
Study: Lethal plastic trash now common in Greece’s whales
UK study shows seal singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’
Breakfast Blogs
I Don’t Make Predictions, But It Sure Seems Like Trump Could Get Trounced in 2020 Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, District Court for the District of Columbia, kept Marcy Wheeler, at her blog emptywheel, really busy Friday analyzing the rulings coming from her courtroom regarding Roger Stone and Paul Manafort:
Roger Stone’s Latest: When Legal Categories of Innocent or Guilty become Disinformation and Pardon
Manafort Told Hannity Gates Was in for the Long Haul after Discussing Pardons with Him
Paul Manafort Seemed Certain Mueller Would Indict Jared Kushner
Friday Coleslaw: The Finnish Cabinet, A Rose, The Female Bomber Pilots in WWII and Conducting-While-Female Echidne, at her blog
“The critical moment will come when American personnel are killed” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Regime change begins at home Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Call Them Concentration Camps Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I Don’t See Any Method At All, Sir (Redux) DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Crocked and loaded Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
When David Brooks Runs Out of Things to Write About… driftglass, at his blog
My God How the Money Rolls In Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Math Is Amazing: Virtually None of the Migrants Seeking Asylum Are Violent Criminals The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Test the Damn Coatdress!!!!!! Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
DID TRUMP GIN UP A NEAR-WAR BECAUSE HE COULDN’T BEAR CEDING THE NEWS CYCLE TO DEMOCRATS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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