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
Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Breakfast News
City: Philadelphia police head quits over bias in department
2 drug companies settle with counties in opioid-crisis suit
2015 North Dakota liquid gas spill much bigger than reported
City sues to remove Confederate monument, citing free speech
California to build largest wildlife crossing in world
Area 51 events in Nevada prompt emergency crowd planning
Trump cancels Denmark meeting over Greenland proposal
Italian premier’s resignation could bring elections in fall
Migrants exit rescue ship in Italy after 19-day standoff
UK, EU only harden their positions on Brexit as G-7 nears
Big questions linger as Russia shares radiation data
Urgency for vaccine grows as virus ravages China’s pigs
Earth’s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland
Breakfast Blogs
At Least One Democratic Senator Is Saying Outright That the Emperor Has No Clothes Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Roger Stone Once Again Limits His Denials emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Freedom And Equality: More on Equality Ed Walker, emptywheel
The Dems work is cut out for them, just to assess the damage digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Dear American Jews tristero, Hullabaloo
A dirty bomb with wings Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Proposed Bills Would Help Combat Domestic Terrorism Barbara McQuade, Lawfare
People Who Accurately Describe Trump’s History of Racism Are the Real Racists Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Randy Barnett is tweeting poolside from Provence to let you know he’s extremely interested in human freedom Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 531 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
America’s No. 1 Outdoors Role Model and the Curious Incident of My Local Paper in the Night-Time driftglass, at his blog
Pompeo Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
If You’re Not Anti-Fascist, You’re Pro-Fascist The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Totally Real News Outlet ‘Epoch Times’ Loves Trump, Falun Gong, Heterosexual Healing, And Just Floating Right There Up In The Air Five Dollar Feminist, Wonkette
Conservatives Don’t Want Their American Fantasy Spoiled By 1619 Project’s Lying Reality Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Say What You Will About Anthony Scaramucci, But He’s Driving Trump BUGF*CK Evan Hurst, Wonkette
I THINK I UNDERSTAND NOW WHY THERE WERE OBAMA/TRUMP VOTERS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog