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
America’s Declaration of Independence; Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day; Israel’s raid at Entebbe; West Point opens; Lou Gehrig’s farewell to baseball; Neil Simon born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Breakfast News
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
`Huge bummer’: July Fourth will test Americans’ discipline
New outbreaks push inmate coronavirus cases past 50,000
Second wave of virus closures wallops California restaurants
Virus concerns grow — as do crowds flocking to Jersey Shore
Hollowed out public health system faces more cuts amid virus
MLB cancels All-Star Game for first time since 1945
More fireworks in Americans’ hands for July 4 raises risks
Cops fired over photos of chokehold used on Elijah McClain
Move to rename ‘Bloody Sunday’ bridge has critics in Selma
Venezuela sanctions set off fight for ‘plundered’ oil cargo
French government ministers investigated over virus crisis
Quarantine-free travel from UK to Cyprus to start Aug 1
UK scraps quarantine for some visitors as pubs set to reopen
South Africa’s hospitals bracing for surge of virus patients
Experts find early ocher mine in Mexican underwater caves
Breakfast Blogs
This Fourth of July, We’re in Another One of Those Moments Where the Great Bluff Gets Called Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Maybe Trump Really Is Never Going To Leave bmaz, emptywheel
The shattered chain digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digbyy’s Hullabaloo
Slow learners Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Why is Trump Turning a Blind Eye to Russia’s Covert Warfare? Michael Carpenter, Just Security
Lawyers Say Barr Is ‘Once Again Trying to Install a Loyalist’ in U.S. Attorney’s Office–‘Rule of Law Be Damned’ Colin Kalmbacher, Just Security
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The killing of Elijah McClain Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: It’s Gonna Be Gone Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Campaign In Chaos, As Trump Sits Home Crying In His Cheeseburger Liz Dye, Wonkette
Joe Biden Has Army Of Lawyers Ready To Fight Off Election Malarky Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
36 Years Later, Conservatives Finally Read The Lyrics To ‘Born In The USA’ Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Oh No, Donald Trump Hates Ivanka’s Husband Again Evan Hurst, Wonkette
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