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
Ex-Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears; Medicare and Medicaid signed into law; A blast rocks Black Tom Island; The USS Indianapolis sunk; Henry Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Breakfast News
Last slave ship: Alabama files federal claim of ownership
Some felons unable to pay fines, fees to vote in Miami-Dade
Black Virginia lawmakers to boycott Trump’s Jamestown visit
US moves to limit asylum for threatened family members
New York reduces penalties for marijuana possession
Johnson presses EU to give way amid no-deal Brexit warnings
Putin opponent sent back to jail after suspected poisoning
China defends Hong Kong police, blames Western forces
French group sues over toxic lead from Notre Dame fire
It’s official: UK broke temperature record during heat wave
Sailing to America: Teen to bring her climate activism to US
India’s tiger population rises to nearly 3,000
Breakfast Blogs
Sunday Was a Big Night for Unfortunate Exercises of Our Second Amendment Rights Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Aspiring Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe Does Not Want DOJ’s Mob Experts Exchanging Information with Mob Experts emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
How To Continue Playing The Game Trump Began With The Cummings Tweets Echidne, at her blog
McConnell thinks protecting elections from foreign interference is “modern McCarthyism” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
President soulmate Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
“Virtual Iowa Caucuses” Demand Cybersecurity Attention: 2020 Election Security Can’t Wait Till 2020 Joshua Geltzer, Just Security
Who Will Be the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Aug. 15? Robert Chesney, Lawfare
Biden’s plan Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dersh Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Donald Trump Gets Mighty Touchy When A Black Man Threatens To Sue Ivanka, Huh? Five Dollar Feminist. Wonkette
Donald Trump Was The 9/11 First Responder Of Donald Trump’s Dreams Evan Hurst, Wonkette
It’s about the RPM Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
JOE BIDEN ISN’T JUST THE FRONT-RUNNER — HE’S THE FAVORITE, AND MEDIA COVERAGE MAY BE THE REASON Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog