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
John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for first time; Baseball’s first All-Star Game; Outbreak of the Biafran War; Painter Frida Kahlo born; Althea Gibson wins at Wimbledon; Singing cowboy Roy Rogers dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Breakfast News
San Francisco: More homeless living in vehicles
Maine community supplying tents for housing for the homeless
California towns survey quake damage amid more aftershocks
Oregon senator, a war veteran, now under fire for threats
Group grants $1.6M for places that are part of black history
Storied African-American newspaper becoming digital only
Armed Utah teachers practice responding to school shootings
Senators: Feds’ American flags should be made in America
Alaskans put away jackets, get out sunscreen amid heat wave
China locks down Xinjiang a decade after deadly ethnic riots
Maduro shows military might in Independence Day celebration
NGO ship with migrants barred from docking in Italy
https://apnews.com/719f5772a2d947cbaf079df131e1a7a0
Tunisia bans face veils in public buildings for security today
Japanese collector returns ancient artifacts to Cambodia
At Tehran symphony, music lovers seek escape from reality
Breakfast Blogs
Not Everyone Who’s Old Is an Enemy of Progress Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Border Patrol “blowing off steam” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Stormy weather? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Climate change: Boiling frog or tipping point panic? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Cannot Be Defeated Until the War on Heterosexuality Has Ended Scott Limieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 501 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Aristocrats driftglass, at his blog
Fifth of July Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Blog
FREEPERS TRY TO IMAGINE A DEMOCRAT THEY COULD ADMIRE, AND HILARITY ENSUES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog