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
Live Aid concerts held in London and Philadelphia; A French revolutionary is stabbed in his bath; Civil War draft riots erupt in New York; A power blackout hits the Big Apple; Actor Harrison Ford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually. Cheech Marin
Breakfast News
House approves 9/11 victims bill, sends it to Senate
Oklahoma judge upholds law banning common abortion procedure
Heat, wind fuel brush fire on Hawaii island of Maui
Chevron spills 800,000 gallons of oil, water in California
‘It’s powerful’: Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana
Judge aims to end Nevada marijuana license hearing next week
Competition to grow medical marijuana in Utah heats up
A Capitol offense? Cannabis found in Statehouse flower beds
Despite US warnings, Russian S-400 systems land in Turkey
Britain sending destroyer to Gulf amid Iranian threats
Sweden says it won’t sign UN nuclear ban treaty
UK PM May takes swipe at front-runner Boris Johnson
Greece recognizes Venezuela’s Guaido as interim president
Glenn Greenwald becomes focus o Brazil press freedom debate
Breakfast Blogs
Clearly, Alex Acosta’s Slimy Press Conference Did Not Please the Audience of One Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Sidney Powell Believes She Can Bullshit Emmet Sullivan at No Risk to Her Client Mike Flynn emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Cases Of R.Kelly And Jeffrey Epstein. Compare And Contrast. Echidne, at her blog
Trump’s lawyers argue that a president has total impunity digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
What he says and what he really means Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
We Treat America’s Wartime Detainees Better Than Migrant Children Ryan Vogel, Just Security
U.N. Security Council Resolution on Protecting People With Disabilities in Armed Conflict Paras Shah, Lawfare
ITMFA? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Kidding on the Square is How Cruelty Gets Normalized Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Her Serene Highness,The Most Indignant Princess Mona Charen, Is Deeply Disappointed with the Liberal Servants Who Were Supposed to Attend to Her Every Wish and Whim driftglass, at his blog
Standing Orders Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
At His Nutzoid Summit, Trump Admits He Stares at Twitter Instead of Working The Rude Pundit, at his blog
ON WEDNESDAY, ACOSTA HUNG TOUGH. THAT’S NOT WHAT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO DO. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog