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
Elvis Presley holds his first major recording session; Birth of the bikini; Enron’s Kenneth Lay dies; Arthur Ashe wins at Wimbledon; Larry Doby follows Jackie Robinson; Baseball’s Ted Williams dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
Breakfast News
Appeals court: Trump can’t use Pentagon cash for border wall
Strongest earthquake in 20 years rattles Southern California
Pregnant teens especially vulnerable in border centers
North Carolina proposes smokable hemp ban as demand grows
Decision on extinguishing Jim Beam fire a ‘day or two’ away
Seattle Children’s Hospital cited for deadly mold problems
San Francisco to paint over historic George Washington mural
MAD magazine leaving newsstands after 67-year run (Really!)
Ex-Venezuela spy chief says Maduro ordered illegal arrests
US, Taliban scramble to finalize draft on troop withdrawal
Protesters say storming of legislature born of desperation
Gibraltar detains Syria-bound supertanker with Iranian oil
Greek election front-runner keeps campaign unusually low-key
Hot weather in Greek capital shuts down Acropolis
Even poop is cute at Japanese museum that encourages play
Breakfast Blogs
We Are Not Descended From Fearful Women, Either Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Continues to Make a Public Case He’s Guilty Joshua Schulte Keeps Digging: His Defensible Legal Defense Continues to Make a Public Case He’s Guilty emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Megan Rapinoe Is a Patriot Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
It’s hard to be proud of your country when your leader is an embarrassment
This canary is singing its independence Tom Sullivan, HUllabaloo
Bret Stephens was a whiny king, of him the harpers rudely sing Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 500 Erik Loomus, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Literary Corner: Decompensation Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
JUST WRITE SOME ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AND PUBLISH THEM Steve M., No More Mister Nice blog