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 ruling during the Watergate scandal; Nixon and Khrushchev hold a ‘kitchen debate’ during the Cold War; Brigham Young and Mormon followers arrive in present-day Utah; Apollo 11’s crew returns home.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.
Breakfast News
Greece and Russia trade barbs in worsening war of words
Macron orders shake-up of presidential office after bodyguard scandal, reports say
Deaths at sea expose flaws of Italy-Libya migration pact
UK public will blame EU for no-deal Brexit, says Jeremy Hunt
UK to adopt EU laws on combating terrorism and money laundering
At least 20 dead in Greece as wildfires rage out of control
Anti-military protests rock Pakistan in run-up to fiercely contested election
Japan heatwave: record broken as concern grows over 2020 Olympics
APNewsBreak: Judges crack down on illicit inmate cellphones
Administration reports nearly 1,200 family reunifications
Judge denies Trump bid to toss immigration protections case
US Southwest sizzles as temperatures near 120 degrees
Breakfast Blogs
These Aren’t ‘Moderate’ Democrats. They’re Conservative Democrats. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Keith Gartenlaub Wonders Why He Can’t Get the Carter Page Treatment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Get Carter, Redux Rayne, emptywheel
What Is Happening to the Newspapers? The New York Daily News As The Story Echidne, at her blog
They’re trying to kill us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The progressives are coming! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
U.S.-Russia Military Coop: Sec. Mattis Doesn’t Need Congress’ Permission, But Congress Has Control Options Tess Bridgeman, Just Security
Nobody Actually Knows Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Democrats Bad on Immigration Should Be Booed Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Facebook and Holocaust denial Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Never Trumpers Are Being Tormented By Their Younger, Crueler Selves driftglass, at his blog
The Crime. I Yastreblansky, Rectification of Names
FBI Takes 412 Pages To Say Look At Carter Page, Dumb Fucking Idiot Spy LOL Evan Hurst, Wonkette
THE “NON-CONSERVATIVE PANIC” DEFENSE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Bad Bill Would Create A Nationwide Exception To Subpoena And Warrant Requirements For Cellphone Location Data Tim Cushing, Techdirt