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 10:30am (ET) 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
Allies mark VJ-Day as World War II effectively ends; Woodstock begins; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte born; India gains independence; Blast hits Omagh, N. Ireland; ‘The Wizard of Oz’ premieres in Hollywood.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Breakfast News
Milwaukee protest: governor activates national guard after night of unrest
Louisiana flooding cuts off roads and thousands of homes
California wildfire forces 1,000 evacuations and destroys homes
Kurdish forces in fresh push to recapture Mosul from Isis
Polls suggest Iceland’s Pirate party may form next government
Paralympic Games: countries still waiting for vital travel grants
Three small earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma in one weekend
Wallabies flourishing in the wild on Isle of Man
Breakfast Blogs
Fish with Human Teeth? Walking Octopi? Don’t We Have Enough to Worry About? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Maybe FBI Has Lost Track of Who the Informants Are? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Policy advisers digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
And in non-Trump news… Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
America’s Pissiest Neocon Is Mad At The Conservative Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America driftglass, at his blog
In A Way, You Can’t Blame Trump For Thinking He Should Be Winning Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog