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
The first men to walk on the Moon; Viking One lands on Mars; Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler wounded in an assassination attempt; Mountaineer Edmund Hillary and musician Carlos Santana born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.
Breakfast News
urmoil slows rebuilding of Puerto Rico’s power grid
US political spending getting more secretive with IRS change
Zuckerberg’s Holocaust comment puts Facebook on the spot
AP Photos: Weeks later, Hawaii volcano gushes on
US deporting crime victims while they wait for special visa
Home demolitions may create new problem: lead-tainted dust
Oregon fire crushes hopes of wheat farmers during harvest
Trump aims to end automatic protections for some species
Reversal: Kentucky restoring Medicaid benefits for thousands
US prosecutors: Water company illegally dumping toxic waste
Spain: Judge drops extradition bids for 6 Catalan fugitives
EU urging members to step up plans for no-deal Brexit
EU preparing to hit back if US puts tariffs on car imports
Inquest opens into British woman poisoned by nerve agent
Rivers dry and fields dust, Iranian farmers turn to protest
Breakfast Blogs
Donald Trump Doesn’t Give a Damn About the Legitimacy of His Presidency* Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Government May Keep Paul Manafort’s iPods (in Part) Because of the June 9 Emails emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Weird Coincidences? Or Does The R Stand For Russia or Republicans? Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s Ties Jamelle Bouie, Slate
Duterte finally does something his people don’t like digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A compromised presidency Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Does a Years’ Old Congressional Statute Prevent a Trump-Putin Agreement for Military Cooperation? Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Kavanaugh, Mueller and Efforts to Have it Both Ways on Morrison Steve Vladeck, Lawfare
The Republican War Against Public Sector Unions Could Be Won By the 2020 Elections Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Elite Impunity, From Nixon to Trump Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Russian Electoral Intervention: Strategic Genius or Something Else? Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Riders of the Purple Wage* driftglass, at his blog
New York Note Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Miami Cops Forced To Give $20,000 Back To Person They Stole It From After Screwing Up Their Supposed Drug Bust Tim Cushing, Techdirt