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. and Britain strike Afghanistan; Achille Lauro hijacked; Supreme Court pick Clarence Thomas faces damaging claims; Matthew Shepard beaten to death; Singer John Mellencamp born; ‘Cats’ hits Broadway
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.
Breakfast News
US News
Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions
Los Angeles OKs one of strictest US vaccination mandates
While US summer surge is waning, more mandates in the works
Flush with COVID-19 aid, schools steer funding to sports
More Seattle police showing vaccination proof
Help Wanted: Thousands of job openings posted in New Mexico
Oil spill off California coast is dispersing, amount unclear
California oil spill renews calls to ban offshore drilling
Florida woman got $3.4M COVID grant she never applied for
Police: 2-foot-long alligator caught on Detroit-area street
US Politics
Congress foresees short-term debt fix amid perilous standoff
In budget turning point, Biden conceding smaller price tag
Ban on negotiating Medicare drug prices under pressure
Idaho governor repeals political rival’s executive order
AG hopes to press anew for struck-down Kentucky abortion law
Massachusetts Senate debates bill to expand voting rights
Oregon gov. seeks disaster relief for salmon industry
Lawyer charged in Durham probe demands more info about case
International News
WHO working to get COVID-19 medical supplies to North Korea
Scandinavians curb Moderna shots for some younger patients
UN endorses world’s 1st malaria vaccine as ‘historic moment’
NATO expels 8 ‘undeclared’ Russian intelligence officers
Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan kills at least 11
Nobel in chemistry honors ‘greener’ way to build molecules
Sports
Taylor hits walk-off HR, Dodgers deck Cards 3-1 in WC game
Defending AL champ Rays poised to open ALDS against Red Sox
Chicago beats Connecticut 79-69, heads to WNBA Finals
Mika Zibanejad scores twice, Rangers beat Devils 6-2
NWSL players pause games, recognize 2 who alleged misconduct
NYRA hearing for embattled trainer Bob Baffert looming
No room for error in Hamilton and Verstappen F1 title fight
Breakfast Blogs
Mitch McConnell Just Produced Such a Load of Manure That Even Quoting It Verbatim Feels Like Malpractice Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Two New Material Errors Are the News from the IG Report on Woods File Errors emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bring me the smelling salts, Jeeves… digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Democracy optional Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Accidentally Unsealed Document Shows Feds Are Using Reverse Warrants To Demand Info On Google Searches Tim Cushing, Techdirt
If Your Takeaway From Facebook’s Whistleblower Is That Section 230 Needs Reform, You Just Got Played By Facebook Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Federal Judge Blocks Texas Judges, Clerks, and Other State Actors from Enforcing ‘Flagrantly Unconstitutional’ Anti-Abortion Law Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor Demand ‘Straight Answer’ About Whether Guantánamo Prisoner Can Testify About Torture at CIA ‘Black Sites’ Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Yang’d Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Victims of love Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Malaria Vaccine Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Your Lincoln Project Quote of the Day driftglass, at his blog
MITCH McCONNELL: STILL NOT SEEN AS A SUPERVILLAIN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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