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
Continental Congress votes to break away from Britain; Civil Rights Act signed; Amelia Earhart disappears; President James Garfield shot; Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide; Actor Jimmy Stewart dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Breakfast News
Protesters flood US cities to fight Trump immigration policy
Evacuations ordered as winds fuel Northern California fires
Housing extended for 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees
APNewsBreak: Border Patrol arrests drop sharply in June
The Latest: 3 to 8 inches of rain fuels Des Moines flooding
Vermont becomes 9th state with legal recreational marijuana
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador on brink of historic presidential win
Canada tariffs on US goods from ketchup to lawn mowers begin
No resolution to German government crisis over migrant plans
Raging wildfire threatens moorlands in northern England
Breakfast Blogs
The Founders Would Be Proud. We Should All Be Proud. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On My Continuing Obsession with Paul Manafort’s iPod Habit emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Global Responses to President Trump’s Family Separation via “Zero-Tolerance” Detention Policy Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security
Elliott Broidy’s excellent adventure con’t Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A White House Devoid of Art Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in Cyborg Sent From the Future to Destroy America News driftglass, at his blog
WOULD A PICK OTHER THAN GARLAND REALLY HAVE CHANGED HISTORY? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog