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
Union forces win the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War; George Washington takes charge of the Continental Army; Algeria gains independence; Actor Tom Cruise born; Singer Jim Morrison dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Breakfast News
Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up
House committee files lawsuit for Trump tax returns
Border activist to be retried in case on aiding migrants
Alert level increased at world’s largest volcano in Hawaii
Defenders of vegan bacon sue Mississippi over labeling law
To boost milk, dairy groups support high school coffee bars
Nevada trooper pulls over hearse traveling in HOV lane
Wildlife officials cheer rat death on remote Alaska island
New ECB head Lagarde backed Draghi stimulus while at IMF
Italy judge rules to free captain of migrant rescue boat
EU leaders break deadlock, nominate candidates for top posts
Iranians say US sanctions hurt people, not government
Chileans, Argentines gape at total solar eclipse
Arctic fox walks more than 2,700 miles from Norway to Canada
Breakfast Blogs
Not Everyone Who’s Old Is an Enemy of Progress Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
An Unnecessary Primary Panic? Brain Beutler, Crooked
There is no division in the Democratic party on the asylum crisis digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Eric Holder is a man with a plan
To Stem the Flow of Refugees, Address the Conflicts at Its Core Viole Gienger, Just Security
Today in the Elite Meritocracy Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Warren Court of the 60s Was A Massive Historical Outlier
David Brooks Cannot Stop Being David Brooks driftglass, at his blog
The Audacity of Moderation Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NEXT YEAR’S D.C. FOURTH OF JULY WILL BE EVEN WORSE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog