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
Three civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi; John Hinckley, Jr. found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting President Ronald Reagan and three others; Britain’s Prince William born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Breakfast News
People donate millions to help separated families
Mayor learns more than 200 separated migrant children in NYC
Atlanta mayor stops immigration cooperation over separations
Immigration courts packed with cases of kids crossing border
At least 3 tender age shelters set up for child migrants
Airlines ask US not to put migrant children on flights
Judge tells US: Stop meddling with detained Iraqi nationals
Judge disputes California aimed to hinder border enforcement
West Virginia Supreme Court justice indicted
Maine AG wins in biggest test of ranked-choice voting in US
Heavy rains bring floods to areas of Texas hit by Harvey
Despite the odds, Turkey’s opposition mounts tough challenge
India takes direct control in Kashmir after alliance ends
EU to tax Harleys, bourbon and other US goods from Friday
Beer may lack fizz in Europe amid carbon dioxide shortage
Wisconsin game warden helps cub escape basement with ladder
Breakfast Blogs
This Is a Fight Over What It Means to Be an American Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Two Details about DOJ IG’s Leak Investigations, Plural, Including the One into Rudy Giuliani’s Sources emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Angry Mom: I See Dead Children Rayne, emptywheel
Womp, Womp Echidne, at her blog
An apostate takes the big step digby ala Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Speechless tristero, Hullabaloo
A look in the mirror Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Self-Pardons: The President Can’t Pardon Himself, So Why Do People Think He Can? Philip Bobbitt, Lawfare
Racist People (Putting Out Fire) Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Shaming the enablers of fascism Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
S.E. Cupp Cannot Imagine a World Without National Socialism driftglass, at his blog
CHEST-THUMPING TRUMP IS MOTIVATING HIS BASE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Warner Bros. Turns Harry Potter Fan Events Into Events For The Franchise That Must Not Be Named Timothy Geigner, Techdirt