The Breakfast Club (Running On Empty)

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

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.

Emma Goldman

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