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
Test of the world’s first nuclear weapon; President Richard Nixon’s White House taping system revealed; John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash; Apollo 11 lifts off for Moon.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Breakfast News
US judge criticizes plan to reunify families split at border
US trade, immigration and biofuel policies hit farmers hard
Muslim candidates running in record numbers face backlash
5 years after declaring bankruptcy, Detroit reborn at a cost
City reverses policy on rule used to exclude Muslim swimmers
Deadly fire shuts down key route to Yosemite National Park
‘Sheltering wings:’ Charleston memorial plan conveys solace
Russian bots, trolls test waters ahead of US midterms
May reveals Trump Brexit advice: Sue the EU, don’t negotiate
Food sent to migrants off Sicily as Italy awaits EU offers
Turkey marks 2nd anniversary of thwarting violent coup
Breakfast Blogs
Mueller Has the Goods—All of the Goods Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
As the Summit Arrives, Keep in Mind that Putin Manages Trump with Carrots and Sticks emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Hybrid or Ambiguous, Asymmetric Warfare is Here to Stay Rayne, emptywheel
“I would say that, you know, Brexit is Brexit” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Fight for the future Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Today in American Ethnic Cleansing Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Nothing is easier than getting an indictment Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog