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
Adolf Hitler purges rivals in Nazi Germany; America’s food and drug safety take a big step forward; ‘Gone With the Wind’ published; Tonya Harding banned from figure skating; Singer Lena Horne born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
Breakfast News
Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion
Federal judge blocks Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirements
US lawyers: Ruling allows detention of immigrant families
Canada announces billions in retaliatory tariffs against US
Bear cub with burnt paws rescued from Colorado wildfire
EU moves on migrant plans, while 100 reported missing at sea
Spanish rescue ship told not to respond to distress call
‘Permanent’ cease-fire begins in South Sudan’s civil war
Ahead of Mexico vote, fears and warnings over possible fraud
Spain feels the heat as migrants shift route into Europe
Spain creates Mediterranean Sea reserve for whale migration
Breakfast Blogs
Yeah, Let’s Go After the Disaster Responders Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Peter Strzok’s Out of Scope Polygraph emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Democracy Against Capitalism: The Separation Of Politics and Economics Ed Walker, emptywheel
Welcome to Giliad? Echidne, at her blog
Are Milo’s threats protected speech? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A movement, not a moment Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Child Separation in the Courts Deborah Pearlstein, Just Security
Where the Heck Did the Term “Collusion” Come From? Victoria Clark, Lawfare
I Believe In America the Chamber of Commerce and the Republican Party Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
LGM Beer Talk: Wormtown Brewery, Worcester, Massachusetts Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Very Fine People at the State Department DNexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
True Conservatism is The Political Media’s Westworld driftglass, at his blog
It’s in whose court? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
I DON’T THINK IT WILL BE AMY BARRETT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Facial Recognition Company Says It Won’t Sell To Law Enforcement, Knowing It’ll Be Abused Mike Masnick, Techdirt