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
Start of the Berlin blockade during the early Cold War; Boxing champ Jack Dempsey born; Comedian and actor Jackie Gleason of ‘The Honeymooners’ fame dies
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
Breakfast News
Nebraska slowly rolls out voter-approved Medicaid expansion
Aerial photos help census officials pinpoint faraway people
Bourbon barrel recovery underway at storm-damaged warehouse
Wife of late Sen. Inouye christens warship bearing his name
Device to trap plastic waste in Pacific Ocean relaunches
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits California near Pacific Coast
Exhibit will show rare copy of Declaration of Independence today
Confederate flag won’t rise at SC Statehouse this July 10
Some USDA researchers reluctant to move cross country
Yemeni rebels strike Saudi airport ahead of US-Saudi talks
Ethiopia says military chief killed, regional coup failed
Opposition win in Istanbul a blow to Turkey’s Erdogan
Gay prisoners of Buchenwald remembered at Nazi camp site
Crowd at huge Prague rally says Czech democracy is at risk
Climate activists end their blockade of German coal mine
Thousands march for LGBT rights in Ukraine’s capital
Breakfast Blogs
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28138941/migrant-detention-facilities-concentration-camp-second-boer-war/ Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Ongoing Proceeding into Paul Manafort’s Kevin Downing-Related Texts emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What is this “vetting process” you speak of? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The second coming of Jim Crow Tom Sullivan , Hullabaloo
Clarence Thomas’s Astonishing Opinion on a Racist Mississippi Prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
More on the Coming War on the Regulatory State Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
When nothing matters anymore Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 493 Erk Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Donald don’t do this number— Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
HOW ARE RIGHT-WINGERS LYING TO US THIS WEEKEND? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog