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
U.S. air and naval forces ordered into the Korean War; John Dean testifies about the Nixon White House’s ‘enemies list’; Stonewall riots spark the modern gay rights movement; Actor Jack Lemmon dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Breakfast News
Better conditions for migrant children at troubled facility
Wayfair workers protest furniture sale to detention center
Lawsuit filed challenging Arkansas’ 18-week abortion ban
Climate fight lays bare a divide between rural, urban Oregon
New software glitch found in Boeing’s troubled 737 Max jet
NRA splits with PR firm, lobbyist and TV amid infighting
Zuckerberg says company ‘evaluating’ deepfake video policy
US vaccine panel downgrades pneumonia shot recommendation
Bird’s-eye view: Red-tailed hawk perches at Yankee Stadium
NKorea urges South to stop mediating between North, US
Australia probes reports of citizen detained in North Korea
Experts fear ‘snowball effect’ as Iran abandons nuclear deal
US warns Turkey it faces sanctions if it buys Russian system
Lebanese town bans Muslims from buying, renting property
Georgia strips lawmaker of immunity in protest case
Paris prosecutor: no sign Notre Dame fire of criminal origin
Europe sets heat records as much of continent sizzles
Western Panama hit by 6.3 magnitude earthquake
Breakfast Blogs
At the Homestead Facility for Migrant Children, There’s a Crawling Feeling of Ancient Shame Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
According to Hope Hicks’s Testimony, Trump Should Applaud Paul Manafort’s Conviction emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Rogue Superpower threatening nuclear war? That’s what it sounds like digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Short Answer to a Dumb Question tristero, Hullabaloo
Honk for Impeachment! Scream for Impeachment. #Impeachment Now! Spocko, Hullabaloo
Small hands, smaller world view Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Deprivation and Despair: The Crisis of Medical Care at Guantánamo Scott Roehm, Just Security
How You Move Politics to the Left Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How You Move Politics to the Left, Part Two Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Home Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Matthew Dowd is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person driftglass, at his blog
Hi It’s Stupid: White Working Class edition Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
WAKE ME WHEN THE NRA IS REALLY DEAD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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