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
A key moment in the Watergate scandal; Adolf Hitler visits Paris after France falls to Nazi Germany; The typewriter gets a patent; Polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk and TV producer Aaron Spelling die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Breakfast News
Justices adopt digital-age privacy rules to track cellphones
For immigrants, still no word on when they will be reunited
From boat makers to farmers, US-led tariff war inflicts pain
Arizona’s prisons boss found in contempt over inmate care
Oldest member of corrupt Baltimore police unit gets 18 years
Crude oil leaks into floodwaters after train derails in Iowa
Warming drives spread of toxic algae in US, researchers say
Portion of Kentucky bourbon warehouse collapses
Oregon officials criticized for pesticides killing pines
OPEC agrees to pump more oil but crude prices jump anyway
Rival Koreas agree to August reunions of war-split families
taly vows to expel far more migrants, but it won’t be easy
Italy’s interior minister says Malta should take rescue boat
Airbus threatens to leave Britain in case of no-deal Brexit
Turkey heads to landmark presidential, parliamentary vote
Mexico opium poppy growers see price drop, turn to marijuana
Breakfast Blogs
None of This Damage Is Collateral Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Angry Mom: Hiding the Trumpian Genocide’s Records Rayne, emptywheel
Meanwhile, Behind the Curtain Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother KoKo, July 4 1971 – June 18, 2018, digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
What To Do If Kids Separated From Parents Are Found In Your City? Spocko, Hullabaloo
It’s a Feature, Not a Bug tristero, Hullabaloo
Time for a competency hearing? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Detention of Migrant Families as “Deterrence”: Ethical Flaws and Empirical Doubts Adam Cox and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Trump’s Zero Tolerance Immigration Policy Leaves No Room for Discretion Barbara McQuade, Lawfare
Sick fantasies being used to justify real atrocities Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If Democrats Oppose American Ethnic Cleansing, It Will Destroy the Bipartisan Immigration Deal Fascists Totally Want! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Scant Man drifglass, at his blog
The Zen Art of the Deal Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Supreme Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Cell Site Location Info Tim Cushing, Techdirt