The Breakfast Club (No Law)

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

Test of the world’s first nuclear weapon; President Richard Nixon’s White House taping system revealed; John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash; Apollo 11 lifts off for Moon.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

It doesn’t make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. Ruben Blades

Breakfast News

Protests spark over construction of telescope in Hawaii

62 border employees under internal investigation amid posts

Judge recommends $14M award to neo-Nazi trolling victim

Trump moves to effectively end asylum at southern border

Oklahoma AG calls company ‘kingpin’ in state’s opioid crisis

Scientists close in on blood test for Alzheimer’s

EU works to save unraveling nuclear agreement with Iran

Some Iranian women take off hijabs as hard-liners push back

Salvadoran accused of abortion faces retrial, hefty sentence

Philippine leader signs law punishing sexual harassment

The Latest: Mexico ‘does not agree’ with new US asylum rule

Breakfast Blogs

The President* Is Now Arguing He’s the Real Victim of His Own Bigotry Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

So much for Trump’s populism digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The best Republicans have to offer Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

“Safe Third Country” Agreements with Mexico and Guatemala would be Unlawful Susan Gzesh, Just Security

The banality of fact-checking Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Protests on Prime Day Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Ex Men driftglass, at his blog

Roundup Wound Up Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

I WISH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WERE AS POWERFUL AS RUSH LIMBAUGH THINKS IT IS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog