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
President John F. Kennedy rallies West Berlin during the Cold War; The U.N. Charter signed; Scientists complete first rough map of the human genetic code; Charlie Chaplin’s ‘The Gold Rush’ premieres.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Breakfast News
Authorities abandon ‘zero-tolerance’ for immigrant families
Supreme Court accepts Texas voting maps in blow to Democrats
Kansas high court again orders state to boost school funding
US judge throws out climate change lawsuits against big oil
Pharmacist denies woman miscarriage drug on moral grounds
Anthrax confirmed in South Dakota cattle herd
Still-recovering California county hit by another big blaze
Detainees released days after AP report on UAE-run prisons
Walk or die: Algeria strands 13,000 migrants in the Sahara
In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally
Erdogan wins in Turkey, gets ready to assume sweeping powers
Street artist Banksy splashes Paris with works on migrants
Breakfast Blogs
The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Yevgeniy Prigozhin Doubles Down on Lawfare as Intelligence Collection emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Fuck Civility. My First Post in the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Controversy. Echidne, at her blog
Action Reaction digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Stop the institutionalization of cruelty Spocko, Hullabaloo
Junior’s got the gun Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Saudi Arabia’s Misleading Email to Congress After Bombing of MSF Cholera Hospital Ryan Goodman, Just Security
No Shit Sherlock! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Shorter John Roberts: “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore states discriminating on the basis of race.” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
NYT does 2000th story on why nobody is doing stories on America’s most ignored demographic (white people who voted for Trump) Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: Calling All Fighting Liberals driftglass, at his blog
IT MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR OUR SIDE TO WIN A CIVILITY WAR Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Leaked ICE Manual Shows Gov’t Allowing Informants To Engage In Illegal Behavior, Impersonate Lawyers, Journalists, And Doctors Tim Cushing, Techdirt