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
The Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins; The first nuclear weapons test in peacetime; TR’s assault on San Juan Hill; Britain’s Princess Diana born; Hong Kong returned to China; Actor Marlon Brando dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Breakfast News
US News
UNC board grants tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones amid outcry from Black faculty and students
Bill Cosby is a free man after Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturns sex assault conviction
Rescue workers at Surfside building collapse find bodies of two children
Dog saves abandoned cat stuffed in plastic bag near Fountain Hills shelter
7-year-old’s ‘Gwennie Penny’s Lemonade’ stand helping fund Brunswick’s first inclusive playground
US Politics
Manhattan grand jury indicts Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg, sources say
Only two House Republicans vote for the January 6 select committee
Seventeen states have enacted 28 new laws making it harder to vote
Biden signs bill repealing Trump-era EPA rule on methane emissions
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoes GOP-backed election overhaul bill
International News
The Latest: German firm says vaccine good for younger people
UN war crimes court convicts 2 Serbs over Bosnia atrocities
Firmly in control, China’s Communist Party marks centenary
Canadian Indigenous group says more graves found at new site
Activists, journalists included in Myanmar prisoner release
Most European troops exit Afghanistan quietly after 20 years
Great Brexit sausage fight goes into freezer for 3 months
Sports
Report: Woman Arrested for Causing Tony Martin, Riders to Crash at Tour de France
Olympics to Allow Children of Nursing Mothers After Criticism from Alex Morgan, More
Turner hits for 3rd cycle, red-hot Nats rout Rays 15-6
Gray tosses 6 strong innings, Rockies beat Pirates 6-2
Ashby tagged, but Brewers sweep Cubs for 8th straight win
Breakfast Blogs
You Go to Hell With the Alibis You Have Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Person Fifteen (AKA Mark Grods), Another Roger Stone Security Staffer, Flips emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywhwwl
American carnage: the nightmare scenario digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Slow enough for you? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabalo
As Expected: Judge Grants Injunction Blocking Florida’s Unconstitutional Social Media Law Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Says Some Disturbing Stuff About Section 230 While Dumping Another Two ‘Sue Twitter For Terrorism’ Lawsuits Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Ohio Republicans Forced To Back Off Unpopular Ban On Community Broadband Karl Bode, Techdirt
Can powerful men be held accountable in America? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The past, present, and future of air conditioning Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 870 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Nil Nisi Bonum Department Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
PICK THE MEMBERS OF THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE LIVE ON TV, AND ASK EACH POTENTIAL MEMBER ONE QUESTION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Biden DOJ Sees Georgia Suppressing Black Voters, Brings Receipts In This Lawsuit Right Here Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Wisconsin GOP Leader Chris Kapenga Believes In Trump The Father Almighty, Maker Of Heaven And Earth … Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Bill Cosby … Well, Sh*t. A Lawsplainer! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Thanks, ‘Cyber Ninjas’! Maricopa County Has To Trash Tainted Voting Equipment Now Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
When Far-Right PACs Attack Republicans, Who Wins? The American Public, That’s Who. Stephen Robinson, Wonkette