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 shooting rampage takes place at the University of Texas clock tower; Germany declares war on Russia in World War I; Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics; Author Herman Melville born; MTV debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Breakfast News
Repeat wildfire evacuations leave some Californians weary
Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Get Consent Before Drugging Migrant Children
Judge blocks release of blueprints for 3D-printed guns
Deal reached to clean land around 3 US plutonium reactors
Video of abuse at pig farm also highlights common practices
Colorado Springs’ 8-week-old giraffe euthanized
K-9 dies after air conditioner stops working in cruiser
North Carolina gov: Endangered wolf protection should stay
Government bulldozes part of dune it promised not to harm
Food experts debate origin of Key lime pie
Mexico airliner crashes and burns, but all aboard survive
NKorea provided just 1 dog tag with 55 sets of war remains
Russian secret-spilling site ‘Dossier’ steps into spotlight
Generals from rival Koreas end talks with no agreement
Zimbabwe says election is clean; opposition is skeptical
Aid groups blame Italy after migrants are sent to Libya
Deadly month: Japan’s weather-related deaths top 300 in July
Animals, crops and people all suffer amid Europe’s heatwave
Mars makes closest approach to Earth in 15 years
Breakfast Blogs
We’re in a Cybersecurity Crisis, Facebook Tells the White House. Hello? Anyone There? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Non-EDVA Manafort Thread: Paulie Continues to Work for His Pardon emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The tale of a grovelling sycophant digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Race paranoia strikes deep Tom Sulllivan, Hullabaloo
The Justice Department Finds ‘No Responsive Records’ to Support a Trump Speech Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
I See No Flaws in This Line of Reasoning Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Racist backlash politics and the “press 1 for English” myth Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 295 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Gun and Money
Magic Ruralism ™ driftglass, at his blog
Rudy Giuliani Only Said All That Dumb Shit Because SQUIRREL! MAGGIE HABERMAN! MAGGIE HABERMAN HOLDING A SQUIRREL! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Tempest-flossed Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
REASSIGN DEMONIZATION SQUAD, STAT! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
New York State Votes To Kick Charter Out Of The State For Poor Service, Failing To Meet Merger Conditions Karl Bode, Techdirt