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
U.S. cruise missiles hit Afghanistan and Sudan after American embassies bombed in Africa; The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia; NASA’s Voyager 2 launched; Singers Issac Hayes and Robert Plant born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
Breakfast News
Georgia voters challenge legality of new election system
Planned Parenthood leaves federal family planning program
Detained immigrants sue over conditions, medical care
Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts
‘Codfather’ settlement means magnate will never fish again
NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner’s chokehold death
Alaska wildfire season continues with new fires, hot weather
Census figures show economic gap narrows with citizenship
Iranian tanker sought by US heading toward Greece
Twitter shuts Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests
Wide implications as Germany teeters toward recession
UK PM Boris Johnson faces rising Brexit strategy criticism
Patience wears thin for migrants stranded off Italian coast
Thousands flee from ‘monster’ wildfire on Canary Islands
Salvadoran suspected of having abortion acquitted at retrial
Lead scrubbed from Paris streets as Notre Dame work resumes
Breakfast Blogs
Native Issues Are Finally Getting the Spotlight They Deserve on 2020 Campaigns Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Hilma af Klint Echidne, at her blog
It isn’t just Trump. The GOP mainstream is overwhelmingly anti-immigrant digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
3 Potential Mass Shootings were foiled, let’s stop more Spocko, Hullabaloo
2020: It’s the Trumpism, stupid Spocko, Hullabaloo
Act Now to Celebrate the U.N. Women, Peace and Security Agenda in 2020 Donald Steinberg, Just Security
The failing Constitution Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Boy in the Bubble Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 530 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Obama’s Apollo Presidency driftglass, at his blog
One of the President’s Humanoid Relationships Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Conservatives Terrified New York Times 1619 Project Will Remind Black People Slavery Existed Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
How Mike Pompeo Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Sticking His Nose Missile Up Trump’s Butt Evan Hurst, Wonkette
CONSERVATIVES HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS TACTIC NOW? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog