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
Test of the world’s first nuclear weapon; President Richard Nixon’s White House taping system revealed; John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash; Apollo 11 lifts off for Moon.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It doesn’t make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. Ruben Blades
Breakfast News
Protests spark over construction of telescope in Hawaii
62 border employees under internal investigation amid posts
Judge recommends $14M award to neo-Nazi trolling victim
Trump moves to effectively end asylum at southern border
Oklahoma AG calls company ‘kingpin’ in state’s opioid crisis
Scientists close in on blood test for Alzheimer’s
EU works to save unraveling nuclear agreement with Iran
Some Iranian women take off hijabs as hard-liners push back
Salvadoran accused of abortion faces retrial, hefty sentence
Philippine leader signs law punishing sexual harassment
The Latest: Mexico ‘does not agree’ with new US asylum rule
Breakfast Blogs
The President* Is Now Arguing He’s the Real Victim of His Own Bigotry Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
So much for Trump’s populism digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The best Republicans have to offer Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
“Safe Third Country” Agreements with Mexico and Guatemala would be Unlawful Susan Gzesh, Just Security
The banality of fact-checking Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Protests on Prime Day Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Ex Men driftglass, at his blog
Roundup Wound Up Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
I WISH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WERE AS POWERFUL AS RUSH LIMBAUGH THINKS IT IS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog