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
Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying two Ancient Roman cities; Hurricane Andrew hits Florida; British troops burn Washington in War of 1812; Pluto demoted as a planet; Pete Rose banned from baseball for life.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Breakfast News
US stocks tumble as US-China trade war rattles investors
DOJ: Immigration facility shouldn’t have to pay minimum wage
Appeals court upholds ruling on fees in gay marriage case
Work on more border wall starts in Arizona, New Mexico
Plan allows drilling, grazing near national monument in Utah
Alaska salmon deaths blamed on record warm temperatures
Illinois patient’s death may be first in US tied to vaping
International traveler with measles visited Disneyland 2 hours ago
$10,000 reward offered for arrest of wild burro killers
Trump raises tariffs on Chinese goods as trade war escalates
Bolsonaro to send army to fight huge fires in the Amazon
France threatens economic retaliation over Amazon fires
Strikes on Iran-backed militias threaten to destabilize Iraq
Hong Kong protesters form human chains to call for democracy
As Malta disembarks migrants more charity-govt clashes loom
Putin orders Russia to respond after US missile test
Boris Johnson prepares to take his place on world stage
Russia’s floating nuclear plant sails to its destination
Breakfast Blogs
What Is This Sh*t, Anyway? Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Maria Butina’s Lawyer Changes His Story about Her Romance with Paul Erickson emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What Women Are. Tucker Carlson And Andrew Sullivan Tell Us Ladiez. Echidne, at her blog
If Trump Were an Airline Pilot James Fallows, The Atlantic
Where’s the Big Plan to reform our political system? Without that, the rest is just talk. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Beyond the fringe Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Little-Noticed Way the McGahn Litigation Could Shape Congressional Oversight Jonathan Schaub, Lawfare
RBG was just treated for a malignant tumor on her pancreas Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
There Is No Norm That Supreme Court Justices Shouldn’t Resign Strategically Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Grift for the Mill Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Sure Seems Like This Ridiculous Racist Lady Shouldn’t Be Teaching Law At Penn Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Yr Wonkette Says Only Good Things About The Dead. David Koch Is Dead. Good. Doktor Zoom, Lawyers, Guns and Money
TRUMP IS NO CRAZIER THAN THE REST OF THE RIGHT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog