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
The Spanish Civil War begins; Sen. Ted Kennedy’s passenger dies when he drives his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island; South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and musician Ricky Skaggs born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.
Breakfast News
GOP Sen. Rand Paul slows bill to boost 9/11 victims fund
Asylum ban may further strain immigrant detention facilities
House holds 2 Trump officials in contempt in census dispute
House blocks maverick Democrat’s Trump impeachment effort
House Democratss, GOP unite to repeal Obama health care tax
House votes to block sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia
Nuclear industry push for reduced oversight gaining traction
Police arrest Hawaiian protesters trying to block telescope
Montana, North Dakota push against Washington state rail law
Animal rescue group needs help caring for 89 baby birds
US heat wave just warming up for long and scorching weekend
Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency
Top diplomat: Iran must build missiles for defense
UK leader May slams populist politics, Brexit ‘absolutism’
Architect: Notre Dame far from safe for restoration work
Hong Kong elders march in support of young demonstrators
Germany introducing mandatory measles vaccination for kids
Scientists find new way to kill disease-carrying mosquitoes
Nesting penguins can’t resist lure of New Zealand sushi shop
Breakfast Blogs
Congratulations, George Wallace, There’s a Party for You Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone Lawyer Bruce Rogow Concedes His CrowdStrike Ploy Was Just That emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
RIP Justice John Paul Stevens digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Jerks jerking chains Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Why I Split from Netroots Nation and Why I Can’t Go Back Martin Longman, Progresive Pond
The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Conceal Abuse of Migrant Detainees Kendyl Salcito, Just Security
What ‘Metering’ Really Looks Like in South Texas Stephanie Leutert, Lawfare
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 511 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Proved That Bush Proved That Reagan Proved That Deficits Don’t Matter driftglass, at his blog
Then there’s the trope of maddening indirection Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Let’s Have This Goddamn Political Race War Already The Rude Pundit, at his blog
SOMEDAY WE MAY THANK THE SQUAD FOR DEFEATING TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog