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
Last U.S. combat troops leave Vietnam; Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. killed in World War II; N.J. Gov. McGreevey to resign after declaring he’s gay; Russian sub Kursk explodes; Director Cecil B. DeMille born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. Erwin Schrodinger
Breakfast News
US attorney: Epstein abuse probe steadfast despite his death
Mass shootings have Latinos worried about being targets
Youth march from church to square against immigration raids
AP: States boost flood protection amid high disaster costs
Scientists warn of too many pink salmon in North Pacific
EPA: Newark should provide bottled water due to lead
Gun-control backers concerned about changing federal courts
White supremacist group member seeks release pending appeal
No chaos this time as Woodstock concert site preps for 50th
Baby loon, saved from a tumor, reunited with parents at Oakland lake
Afghan leader rejects foreign interference as talks advance
India eases restrictions in Kashmir for Islamic festival
N. Korea says Kim supervised weapons tests, criticizes Seoul
Guatemalans to vote in close presidential runoff
Russian media agency complains YouTube facilitates protests
Muslims clash with Israeli police at Jerusalem holy site
Tear gas fired in Hong Kong with no end in sight to protests
Breakfast Blogs
Donald Trump Doesn’t Have the Will—or the Intelligence—to Control What He’s Let Loose Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Discussion of White Supremacist Terror Ignores the Transnational Nature of It emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Mass Killers And Misogyny Echidne, at her blog
He finds new ways to betray his oath every single day digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Takin’ it to the streets Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Campus PC is truly out of control Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Another day in paradise Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 524 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Schlockmeister Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
What Do Millennial Snowflakes Know About Fascists, Shootings, And Death? A Idiot Asks, We Answer! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Some Republicans Not Sure What The Cowf*ck Devin Nunes Is Even Doing These Days Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Jeffrey Epstein’s revenge The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog