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
France falls to Nazi Germany on what becomes a day of several key events during World War II; Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in their boxing rematch; Entertainers Judy Garland and Fred Astaire die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Breakfast News
At Mexico border, US mayors say humanitarian crisis persists
Governor orders probe of abuse claims by immigrant children
Confusion and uncertainty at the border after Trump acts
California utility expects to pay $2.5 billion for wildfires
Suit: Offshore drilling done in absence of required report
Trump scraps Obama policy on protecting oceans, Great Lakes
Hundreds rescued from floodwaters in South Texas
Dig it: Archaeologists scour Woodstock ’69 concert field
Deputy frees bear trapped inside car
Violence keeps Central Americans coming to US despite Trump
Iraq set for election recount to salvage tainted result
Trump jabbed first, and now world hits back in trade fight
Eurozone gets deal to pave way for end to Greece’s bailout
Merkel pledges $100 million loan for troubled Jordan
Italy interior minister refuses port to migrant rescue ship
Libyan coast guard rescues over 520 Europe-bound migrants
Israeli PM’s wife charged with fraud, breach of trust
Turkey’s Erdogan seeks new term with greater powers
Canada’s legalization to offer pot by mail, better banking
Breakfast Blogs
Cracks Are Appearing in Scott Walker’s Legacy in Wisconsin Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
What Seems to be Going on with MalwareTech’s New Charges emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Angry Mom: Hey Attention Deficit Media, Catch a Clue! Rayne, emptywheel
Driving while Canadian digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Portland’s Got The Right Idea tristero, Hullabaloo
Why Was Melania given credit for Trump’s change on child snatching? Spocko, Hullabaloo
United States of insecurity Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
“Zero Tolerance” and the Detention of Children: Torture under International Law Meg Satterthwaite and Rebecca Riddell, Just Secuity
What’s In Trump’s Executive Order on Separating Migrant Families—And What It Is Missing Matthew Kahn, Lawfare
What We Have Here Is A Failure to Govern Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 258 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today In Both Sides Do It: Advice From The New York Times On The Proper Use Of “Fuck” driftglass, at his blog
SURE, TRUMP IS AN ELITIST, BUT HE’S THEIR ELITIST Steve M., No More mister Nice Blog