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
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for first time; Baseball’s first All-Star Game; Outbreak of the Biafran War; Painter Frida Kahlo born; Althea Gibson wins at Wimbledon; Singing cowboy Roy Rogers dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
Breakfast News
AP NewsBreak: US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits
Police break up encampment outside immigration building
Judge blocks 1 California sanctuary law, allows 2 others
Illegal pot shops disrupt California’s budding legal market
Silence in newsrooms as 5 slain at Maryland paper remembered
Japan cult leader behind gas attack, followers are executed
Fireworks explosion kills 24, injures 49 near Mexico City
Death Toll Hits 33 In Canadian Heat Wave
Iraq bans farming summer crops as water crisis grows dire
Lions Eat Suspected Rhino Poachers On South African Game Reserve
IVF Could Resurrect Functionally-Extinct Northern White Rhino, Scientists Say
Breakfast Blogs
I Hope They Made Scott Pruitt Turn Out His Pockets on His Way Out the Door Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Tea Leaves on Mueller’s Hand Off emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Democracy Against Capitalism: Capital In A Fiat Money World Ed Walker, emptywheel
Fuck Civility. My Second Post on the Sarah Huckabee Sanders Controversy Echidne, at her blog
Modern blackshirts don’t wear black shirts digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Relearning the Declaration Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
A GOP congressional candidate in California has been appearing on neo-Nazi podcasts Eric Hananoki, Media Matters
Studies: Mass Detention of Migrant Families is Unnecessary, Inefficient Eleanor Acer, Just Security
The Trump Court Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
American exceptionalism and reactionary centrists
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 272 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
THE CRAP AND THE ANTHEM. Roy Edroso, Alicublog
More Thrilling Tales of True Conservatism! Vol 19: Lysenkoism Cannot Fail driftglass, at his blog
WHO HAS THE RIGHT GENES TO BE TRUMP’S COURT PICK? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Cops Are Telling Paramedics To Inject Arrestees With Ketamine. Worse, EMS Crews Are Actually Doing It. Tim Cushing, Techdirt