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
Start of World War II’s Battle of Britain; Telstar satellite launched; Millard Fillmore becomes President; Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev killed; Singer Arlo Guthrie born; Cartoon voice Mel Blanc dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.
Breakfast News
Judge blocks government lawyers from quitting census fight
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
GOP-led Virginia Legislature abruptly adjourns gun session
Validity of Obama health care law at issue in appeal hearing
Mountain goat relocation resumes in Olympic National Park
Willie Nelson brings Farm Aid 2019 to Wisconsin’s dairy land
Local permit denied for Woodstock 50 at upstate NY track
Mayflower replica to sail for 400th anniversary of voyage
Caught between US and Iran, Europe struggles with diplomacy
UN says death toll from Libya fighting passes 1,000
Greece’s new finance minister to push ahead with tax cuts
Hong Kong protesters to continue after bill declared ‘dead’
UK Tory contenders trade blows; Labour backs new Brexit vote
Saudi Arabia says it intercepts bomb-laden Yemen rebel drone
Egypt asks Interpol to help it retrieve King Tut statue
Breakfast Blogs
Democrats Should Cut Off Alex Acosta’s Paychecks Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Ann Donaldson’s Code Makes Richard Burr’s Tip-Off to the White House Far More Damning emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Meanwhile, At Trump’s Golf Resort Echidne, at her blog
Another little bit of collusion among friends digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
#ETTD even when he doesn’t touch it Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
How Congress Should Think About Mueller’s Testimony Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare
You don’t worry about the things that you used to be Scot Lemieux, Lawyeres, Guns and Money
The Battle for the AFL-CIO’s Future Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
No One Is Going to Save Us… (Part 1) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Trump’s Book Yatreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NEVER GUILTY BUT NEVER CLEARED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog