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
Terror bombings strike London’s transit system; Oliver North testifies at Iran-Contra hearings; Sandra Day O’Connor nominated for U.S. Supreme Court; Author Robert Heinlein and musician Ringo Starr born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Breakfast News
Supreme Court says states can punish Electoral College voters
Supreme Court reinforces ban on robocalls to mobile phones
Judge orders Dakota Access pipeline shut down pending review
NY count: 6,300 virus patients were sent to nursing homes
Miami-Dade to shut down restaurants again as Florida’s Covid-19 hospitalizations surge
Parents of teens with special needs find themselves alone in Covid-19 lockdown
Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms contracts COVID-19
New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online
North Carolina county agrees to make Juneteenth paid holiday
Pentagon draft policy would ban Confederate flag displays
The Latest: Financial firms among big relief fund recipients
Native American groups ask NFL to force Redskins name change
Virus: Dragon Con cancels in-person Atlanta event for 2020
MLB ’20 schedule: Yanks-Nats, Giants-Dodgers open on July 23
Scientists urge WHO to acknowledge virus can spread in air
rance: Macron ousts security chief after police protests
UK sanctions Russians, Saudis under new Magnitsky powers
Chinese diplomat derides UK’s move to offer HK citizenship
Turkey calls on EU to be ‘honest’ in dispute with members
With a view toward Iran, Israel launches spy satellite
Greece: Sunken ferry to be raised after fuel leaks
Breakfast Blogs
The Only Way to Reform the Electoral College Is to Abolish It Charles P.Pierce, Esquire Politics
The National Debt Is Sooooooo Big Ed Walker, emptywheel
American Carnage Redux digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
America the divided Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Unpacking the National Intelligence Council’s Memo on Russian Bounty Operation Nicholas Rasmussen and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Judge Who Read Unredacted Mueller Report Has a Spreadsheet Full of Questions for the DOJ to Answer Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Police Lied About What Time They Raided Breonna Taylor’s Home, Lawyers Claim Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
Prosecutors Urge Texas Appeals Court to Deny Crystal Mason En Banc Hearing on Voter Fraud Conviction Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
The Imaginary Unitary Executive Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Lawfare
Not Locking Down America Kills People. So Does Locking Down America. Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
COVID notes Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Hong Kong Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dean Kagan rejects Professor Lessig’s galaxy-brained scheme to make Electoral College even worse Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Performative Conservatism driftglass, at his blog
Counterintelligence News Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
BRET STEPHENS, DONALD TRUMP: ALREADY IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHICH WAS WHICH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Springfield MA Detective Fired For Violating Department’s Black Lives Don’t Matter Policy Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Right-Wingers Hate New ‘Free Speech’ Platform Parler, You Can’t Even Own The Libs There 🙁 Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump Idiot DNI John Ratcliffe: Can We Even Blame *Putin* For Russian Bounties? Liz Dye, Wonkette
Don’t Worry, Brazilian Jesus Statue! Trump Is On His Way To Save You! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Mississippi Election Lady Worries: ‘The Blacks’ Are Registering Voters, But What About PEOPLE? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette