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
Islam’s Prophet Mohammed dies; James Earl Ray caught, wanted for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born; The N.Y. Yankees retire Mickey Mantle’s number.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Hawaii’s eviction moratorium extended 60 days
Kids 5 and up get shots in tests for COVID vaccine
Arizona passes 6 million in administered vaccine doses
Polio: When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting
Jails emptied in the pandemic. Should they stay that way?
California gun bust leads to charges of $600,000 in fraud
FDA approves much-debated Alzheimer’s drug panned by experts
Oil pipeline foes protest Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota
US recovers most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack
Carbon dioxide levels hit 50% higher than preindustrial time
Oregon state song updated to remove racist language
Drought-stricken Nevada enacts ban on ‘non-functional’ grass
US Politics
US fights ruling to extend SSI benefits to Puerto Rico
Oregon lawmaker faces expulsion in assault on state Capitol
Alaska governor urges lawmakers to act on dividend plan
Lawsuit challenges key part of new Kentucky education law
International News
Thais debut locally made AstraZeneca but supplies are tight
As India’s surge wanes, families deal with the devastation
‘Do not come’: Harris seeks ‘hope at home’ for Guatemalans
Canadian police say Muslim family targeted by deadly attack
Palestinian mom fights to stave off punitive home demolition
Maldives foreign minister elected as UN assembly president
Journalists who fled Myanmar find third-country refuge
Myanmar junta to start court case against Suu Kyi next week
Human rights ombudsman says 58 killed in Colombia protests
Peru’s presidential runoff election too close to call
Sports
Red Sox beat sloppy Marlins 5-3 for 5th straight win
Blue Jays extending stay in Buffalo through July 21
Kopps, Welch help Arkansas beat Nebraska 6-2, win regional
Oklahoma, Florida State advance to WCWS championship series
Elko’s grand slam leads Ole Miss into super regionals
New York’s Tom Thibodeau picked as NBA’s coach of the year
Durant has 32, Nets up 2-0 after 125-86 blowout of Bucks
Islanders win 5-4 to take 3-2 lead in series over Bruins
Djokovic, Nadal beat Italian teens to reach French Open QFs
Mike Roth to retire after 24 years as Gonzaga AD
Fowler faces uphill chase on long day of US Open qualifying
Japan, Australia extend runs; Kyrgyzstan without a keeper
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Manchin’s Argument Is as Far Removed From Reality as West Virginia Is From Neptune Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Merrick Garland Agreed He Would Go after January 6 Kingpins, if Evidence Merits emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Plan B: Accountability digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullablaoo
Let’s be clear Tom Sullivan, Digbys’ Hullabaloo
Traitor Trump’s Latest Rambling: Facebook Stole The Election John Amato, Crooks and Liars
Gag Order Lifted On Yet Another Trump DOJ Leak Investigation That Targeted Journalists Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Does Taking Down Content Lead Ignorant People To Believe It’s More Likely To Be True? Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Robert Mueller-Led FBI’s Post-9/11 Secret Surveillance of Muslims Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Unanimous Supreme Court Denies Immigrant Couple Green Cards, Challenges Congress to Pass ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ Law Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Supreme Court Refuses to Weigh in on Male-Only U.S. Military Draft Registration Controversy Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Andrew Sullivan and the English Language Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Fixing the West’s Water Wars Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: Unpleasant Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
MURDOCH’S COVID EXPERTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Joe Manchin Won’t Give Up On Republicans On First Try, Or 100th Try, Or 48 Millionth Try, Or … Michael Mora, Wonkette
Mississippi GOP Gov. Has Some Real Wild Ideas About Human Gestation Periods Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Did Devil Give Rick Wiles COVID For Letting Milo Talk About Giving Up Dong On His Show? Sure Why Not. Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Mark Meadows Tried To Get DOJ To LOCK ITALY UP For Election Fraud Liz Dye, Wonkette
Apple Employees Not Quite Ready To Quit Working From Home In Their Pajamas Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
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