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
England’s King John signs the Magna Carta; A deadly steamboat fire in New York City; Jordan’s King Hussein weds American Lisa Halaby; Arlington National Cemetery created; Singer Ella Fitzgerald dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.
Breakfast News
Migrants complain of poor conditions at US holding centers
Judge grants American Airlines an order against 2 unions
Tennessee Volkswagen plant rejects unionization
Growers hope standards bring order to hemp industry ‘mess’
CDC director praises Alabama HIV clinic ahead of campaign
Agency recommends current 80K attendance cap at Burning Man
AP Explains: Juneteenth celebrates end of slavery in the US
Endangered birds could stop the music at Chicago beach fest
Some of nearly 200 rescued dogs almost ready for adoption
The Latest: Arab League chief tells Iranians to ‘be careful’
Oil tanker attacks echo Persian Gulf’s 1980s ‘Tanker War’
Hong Kong on edge as pressure grows to delay fugitive bill
UN says Ebola outbreak in Congo still not a global emergency
Women strike in Switzerland for fairer pay, more equality
Mexico migration chief resigns, prisons director tapped
Small donors, not French tycoons, help pay Notre Dame works
Thai vets nurture lost baby dugong with milk and sea grass
Breakfast Blogs
Night Two of the Democratic Debate Is the Group of Death Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
In Alabama, Rapists’ Fatherhood Rights Rule Echidne, at her blog
Which dog will they wag? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
“Suck on This Again”— aka The Ledeen Doctrine Redux tristero, Hullabaloo
Not failing schools, a failing economy Tom Sullivan, HullabalooIs Bernie Sanders’s Left-Liberalism Categorically Different Than Elizabeth Warren’s? [SPOILER: No] Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Iraq and Other Debacles driftglass, at his blog
Voters, David Brooks doesn’t like the way you smell Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Bricks and Babies: You Can’t Win a Fight Against the Delusional The Rude Pundit, at his blog
TRUMPISM IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE RULERS ENVY THE RULED Steve M., No More Mister Nice blog