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
Live Aid concerts held in London and Philadelphia; A French revolutionary is stabbed in his bath; Civil War draft riots erupt in New York; A power blackout hits the Big Apple; Actor Harrison Ford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.
Breakfast News
Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry
Supreme Court could return abortion debate to the states
States with laws still on the books that would ban abortion
Florida gun, mental laws couldn’t have stopped massacre
Nurses at Vermont’s largest medical center go on strike
7 fast-food chains agree to end ‘no-poaching’ policies
Flash flood sends tourists to high ground near Grand Canyon
Police: Dog rescued from hot car while owner was in jail
Stinky ‘corpse flower’ in full bloom at Michigan garden
Italy forces new standoff, refuses to let migrants disembark
Trump says May’s Brexit plan would kill UK-US trade deal
Greece: Russians expelled over cash-for-protests allegation
German court: Catalan politician can legally be extradited
NATO insists it’s united as Trump lashes allies over budgets
Syrian government raises its flag over cradle of 2011 revolt
Africa’s iconic baobab trees dying off at alarming rate
Breakfast Blogs
Mississippi’s Lt. Governor Tried to Get a Road Built Straight from His Gated Community to a Mall Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Ellis Compares Paul Manafort to Domestic and Foreign Terrorists and Spies and Traitors in Pulling his VIP Privileges emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Trump Goes To Europe Echidne, at her blog
If only they really had “stopped” it digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Moats. EU countries need more moats. Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Setting the Record Straight: Brett Kavanaugh’s Views on Criminal Investigation of the President Bob Bauer and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
How the UK Government Resignations Signal the Demise of a ‘Hard’ Brexit Shannon Togawa Mercer, Lawfare
No Sense of Decency Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Midwest Democrats–Not All White! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Let Them Eat Kavanaugh! — More Thrilling Tales of True Conservatism driftglass, at his blog
YOU CAN GO LOW OR GO HIGH, BUT WHEN YOU CAN, GO RIGHTEOUS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
SCOTUS Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Problematic Opinion On Anti-SLAPP Laws Mike Masnick, Techdirt