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
Highlights of this day in history: Truman announces Japan’s surrender in World War II; Blackout hits Northeast U.S., Canada; FDR signs Social Security; British troops arrive in N. Ireland; A strike in Cold War Poland; Steve Martin born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Breakfast News
Immigration cases tossed in fallout from high court ruling
Under new law, military kids get sex assault protections
Texas firefighters with cancer often denied workers’ comp
White man charged with fatally shooting black man in Florida
Drenching rains close roads, prompt rescues in Pennsylvania
Alaska’s North Slope shaken by 2 largest recorded quakes
Devastating toxic algae bloom plagues Florida’s Gulf Coast
Live salmon released for ailing orca but she doesn’t eat
Key Afghan city turned into ‘ghost town’ by deadly battles
Turkey tries to contain crisis but currency keeps falling
Rival Korea leaders to meet in Pyongyang in September
Syria vows to help refugees return, wants sanctions lifted
Tunisian leader backs equal inheritance rights for women
EU seeks safe harbor for ship carrying 141 rescued migrants
Breakfast Blogs
The Trump Regime Will Make It Easier for Financial Firms to Gouge U.S. Veterans Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Today’s Democratic Party is not your father’s Democratic Party digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Opponents of democracy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
An Old OLC Opinion on Whether the President Can Be Subpoenaed Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Hillary Clinton Was, If Anything, Too Prepared Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The selling of Elliott Broidy Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Today in American Ethnic Cleansing Eric Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If the GOP won’t do it then the anti-choicers will Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Paul Ryan: Funeral For a Very Important Chimp driftglass, at his blog
IS TRUMP CONFUSED BY TIME ZONES, OR IS HE JUST A SPOILED CHILD? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Just so we’re all on the same Page Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Omarosa Confirms the Obvious (But Trump Can’t Shut Up) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Rudy Giuliani Did Not Lie About Thing Rudy Giuliani Lied About Just Now Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Manafort Trial Update: DEAR GOD, JUST LOCK THIS GRIFTY SOB UP ALREADY! Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Two Dozen Caucasian March In DC Was Big Failure, So That’s Nice Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Court Tells Government It Can’t Search A House Just Because A Suspected Drug Dealer Once Parked In Its Driveway Tim Cushing, Techdirt