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
Allies mark VJ-Day as World War II effectively ends; Woodstock begins; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte born; India gains independence; Blast hits Omagh, N. Ireland; ‘The Wizard of Oz’ premieres in Hollywood.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.
Breakfast News
Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life in Iraq shootings
Biographer: Statue poem embraces migrants from ‘all places’
Over 400 sex abuse suits filed as litigation window opens
Vaping companies sue to delay US review of e-cigarettes
Public vote on new Missouri abortion law faces time crunch
Ruling holds US attorney’s office in Kansas in contempt
States oppose Alabama’s effort exclude migrants in Census
After 1 death, Southern heat wave eases slightly with front
Tofurky asks court to halt enforcement of meat-labeling law
Wyoming wind farm making same power with 80% fewer turbines
Government suggests taking Key deer off endangered list
Federal agency to consider protections for lake sturgeon
Mysterious missile explosion in Russia raises questions
UK Labour leader lays out plan to stop a no-deal Brexit
UK planning post-Brexit freight service for vital medicines
Firefighters battle blaze in Greek island nature reserve
Stones fell from Notre Dame’s ceiling after July heat wave
People, companies forced to save water in parched India city
President-elect says Guatemala can’t do migrant deal with US
Italian PM vows new Genoa bridge will be ready by April
Songbirds silenced as Colombia fights wildlife trafficking
Pure as snow? Scientists say air carrying plastics to Arctic
Breakfast Blogs
The Climate Crisis Is Not Evenly Distributed, But It’s Already Here Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Don McGahn Is Not the Most Critical Witness on Impeachment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Anti-Vaxxers: Rational Or Irrational? And The Anti-Gun-Control Folks? Echidne, at her blog
Only the best people digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Shame on You, Maryland Public TV! tristero, Hullabaloo
Red-faced and rugged Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Is the FBI Punishing Employees’ Political Speech? Scott R. Anderson and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
New Ways to Pollute Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination is a mystery that will never be solved Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump Administration: The Huddled Masses Can Go Fuck Themselves The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Shit Conservatives Don’t Understand, Part 3,479 Tom Hilton, No More Mister Nice Blog