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
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed; Father’s Day first celebrated in the U.S.; The event behind ‘Juneteenth’; Author Salman Rushdie born; NBA draft pick Len Bias dies; Entertainer Paula Adbul born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
Breakfast News
Recording of crying children at border adds to outrage
Immigrant kids seen held in fenced cages at border facility
Redistricting changes headed to the ballot in several states
Federal judge again blocks Arkansas medication abortion law
Protesters burn Mississippi flag, say it symbolizes racism
Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’
Experts say auto tariffs would raise prices, cost jobs
Pentagon suspends August military drills with South Korea
UN says over 25,000 people fled Yemen fighting at Hodeida
Greek far-right lawmaker arrested on treason-linked charges
Macedonian government submits deal on new name to parliament
Doubts loom over Colombia peace deal with hawk’s election
Merkel, allies avert collision for now in German migrant row
Germany will fail 2020 climate goals, now eyes 2030 target
Strong quake near Osaka, Japan, kills 4, knocks over walls
Breakfast Blogs
These Children Will Have Stories to Tell. And They Will Be Told. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Trump People Really Really Want to Know How Much Mueller Knows about Roger Stone’s “Collusion” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“The right way” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Losing control Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Judicial Review of Decisions to Kill American Citizens Under the AUMF: The Most Important Case You Missed Last Week Robert Chesney, Lawfare
The totalitarian mind Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Totalitarian Mind II: White Nationalist Boogaloo Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Coulter, Duckspeak and You driftglass, at his blog
TRUMP WILL NEVER BE A POPULAR PRESIDENT, BECAUSE FIGHTING IS A COMPULSION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Lessons From Making Internet Companies Liable For User’s Speech: You Get Less Speech, Less Security And Less Innovation Mike Masnick, Techdirt