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
The Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins; The first nuclear weapons test in peacetime; TR’s assault on San Juan Hill; Britain’s Princess Diana born; Hong Kong returned to China; Actor Marlon Brando dies
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Breakfast News
NYC pride parade is one of largest in movement’s history
Baby lobster numbers spell trouble for shellfish population
Trump administration agrees to delay health care rule
Democrats demand action on Republican who threatened police
Nebraska measure could tip the number of states with casinos
Rice to launch task force on its segregationist history
UN chief warns Paris climate goals still not enough
Hong Kong marks handover to China with ceremony and protests
US officials attend opening at controversial Jerusalem dig
EU leaders struggle to agree on candidates for top jobs
Albanians vote with no trouble after fears of poll clashes
Turkish police disperse banned LGBT march with tear gas
Rescue ship captain held in Italy attracts donors, defenders
Breakfast Blogs
Kamala Harris Was Electric Taking on Joe Biden in the Second Democratic Debate Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
And Our Dear Leader Speaks About The Demise Of Liberal Democracy Echidne, at her blog
A Brilliant Cartoon digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Time to learn from 2016 Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Brett Kavanaugh is exactly who we thought he was Ian Millhiser, Think Progress
How Content Removal Might Help Terrorists Joe Whittaker, Lawfare
What Should Dems Do About Gerrymandering? Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns amd Money
What Do the Simple Folk Think? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
THE TIMES HATES THE DEMOCRATS WHO’VE CHALLENGED BIDEN BUT SEEMS FASCINATED BY A REPUBLICAN WHO TROLLED HIM Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog