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
England’s King John signs the Magna Carta; A deadly steamboat fire in New York City; Jordan’s King Hussein weds American Lisa Halaby; Arlington National Cemetery created; Singer Ella Fitzgerald dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
Breakfast News
Colorado wildfire forces nearly 2K evacuations amid drought
Judge considers public access to data about opioid shipments
Proposed US banking fix for marijuana may not open all doors
Caesars workers in Las Vegas are voting on new contract deal
Work begins to boost airflow at US nuclear repository
Fewer US teens smoking, doing drugs … and drinking milk
Forgotten no more: Shell Oil preserves slave cemeteries
Many animals are shifting from day to night to avoid people
Montana man rescues tired fawn from bed of sewer sludge
Saudi-led troops fight rebel forces south of Yemen’s Hodeida
Polish court rules against man who wouldn’t serve LGBT group
Jordan PM caught between angry public, international lenders
Glass walls, not metal fencing, to surround Eiffel Tower
Argentine Congress OKs elective abortion; now goes to Senate
UK lifts immigration cap for medical workers amid shortages
Breakfast Blogs
Michigan Conservatives Are Striking References to the KKK from History Books Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
We’re Facing Yet Another Question About the Fundamental Moral Character of This Nation James Holmes, Esquire Politics
Shorter Yevgeniy Prigozhin: Don’t Send the PII We Already Stole — Just Send the Intelligence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Light Cycles Quinn Norton, emptywheel
Today’s Anti-Feminism: Young Women’s Leadership Summit And The Lack of Feminist Critique of Islam Echidne, at her blog
This Is Terrorism digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear Frank Bruni tristero, Hullabaloo
Guilty until proven innocent Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Enslaved and Forced to Watch Her Husband Dig His Own Grave—And Labeled A Terrorist As A Result Jennifer Daskal and Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare
Radio Rwanda Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
James Comey Committed Misconduct That Affected the 2016 Elections Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Republican Party Cannot Save Itself: Part I driftglass, at his blog
HERE’S WHY CRAZY REPUBLICANS NOW SEEM LIKE CRAZY PERSONALITY CULTISTS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
CBP Agrees To Hand Back Almost All Of The $58,000 It Stole From A 64-Year-Old Man At A Cleveland Airport Tim Cushing, Techdirt