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
Bastille prison stormed during the French Revolution; Outlaw ‘Billy the Kid’ gunned down; Richard Speck murders student nurses in Chicago; Mariner 4 probe flies by Mars; Folk singer Woody Guthrie born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: LA County has 5th straight day of 1,000 cases
Surgeon General thanks health care workers in New Mexico
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks
Navajo Nation reports 6 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths
California changes course on schools enforcing mask mandate
Variant could mean mask mandates at big New Orleans events
West Virginia opposes Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan
Oregon heat wave victims older, lived alone, had no AC
Death toll rises to 210 from February cold wave in Texas
Appeals court: Dealers can sell handguns to 18-year-olds
Miami demonstrators block highway to support Cuban protests
FCC gives state prisons tech options to quash cellphones
Lawsuit says Alabama blocking solar power with unfair fees
Trump’s finance chief loses titles, roles after indictment
Not nice: Baron Cohen sues Massachusetts cannabis dispensary
Unwanted pets: Giant goldfish turn up in Minnesota waterways
Black female WWII unit hoping to get congressional honor
US Politics
Senate Democrats announce $3.5 trillion budget agreement
Texas Democrats dig in after exodus; GOP threatens arrest
Russia-based ransomware gang offline but cause not clear
California pension fund agrees to $2.7 billion lawsuit deal
Ex-Tennessee vaccine leader: Firing put politics over health
International News
Dutch COVID-19 infections soar by 500% in a week
French rush to get vaccinated after president’s warning
Malaysia shuts vaccination center after 204 staff infected
El Salvador bans mass gatherings amid coronavirus surge
Immunized but banned: EU says not all COVID vaccines equal
Merkel tells Germans to get vaccinated for ‘more freedom’
Italy to ban mammoth cruise ships from Venice as of Aug. 1
Feds charge 4 in Iran plot to kidnap US resident, 4 others
Power vacuum rattles Haiti in wake of president’s killing
China slams Yellen’s call for US-European ‘unified front’
China tightens control over cybersecurity in data crackdown
Taliban surge in north Afghanistan sends thousands fleeing
France urges compatriots to leave Afghanistan immediately
Death toll rises to 92 in blaze at coronavirus ward in Iraq
Deaths climb to 72 in South Africa riots after Zuma jailed
Series of earthquakes in eastern Taiwan causes some damage
Sports
The Latest: Ohtani gets win in two-way All-Star first
Jill Biden to attend Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony
USA bounces back, tops Argentina 108-80 in pre-Tokyo tune-up
Mewis sisters set to share field in Tokyo, hope to win gold
Olympic surfing exposes whitewashed Native Hawaiian roots
UConn’s NIL policy prohibits conflicts with school sponsors
Breakfast Blogs
Joe Biden Gave a Great Speech on Voting Rights. I Just Wish It Mattered. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Viral Twitter Thread in Which Darrell Cooper Confesses Republicans Were Pawns of Russian Disinformation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheeler
The death of the neutral arbiter digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Mix it up Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Deflecting Blame onto the Most Convenient Target wlp22, The Confluence
Senate Democrats File Motion to Intervene Against Right-Wing Lawsuit That Aims to Make All Ballot Drop Boxes Illegal in Wisconsin Colin Kalmbecher, Law & Crime
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Ban on Handgun Sales to American Adults Younger Than 21, Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Showdown Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Parent Company of Texas Meatpacking Plant That Saw Deadly COVID-19 Outbreak Says New Texas Law Protects Against Liability for Deaths of Factory Worker, Spouse Marisa Sarnoff, Law & Crime
Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Roy Moore Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen: Moore Signed a Waiver Agreeing to ‘Deception about the Program’ Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Provost Draper wants to put you in a new major today Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Taze Those Kids! Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Perversity, Projection, and Power: the Ballad of Ken Starr Scott Lemieux, Lawyers. Guns and Money
From the “So Desperate to Get Back on Fox You Can Smell It” Files: Megyn Kelly driftglass, at his blog
Glimmerings Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Tennessee Legislators Are Outraged That Teenagers Might Want to (Checks Notes) Not Get Covid The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Interior Department To Investigate Racist Atrocity Many Americans Have Never Heard Of Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
It’s Not That Trump Fired His CFO Allen Weisselberg. It’s Just That His Job Is … Smaller Now. Liz Dye, Wonkette
Ben Carson On Slavery: Brain Surgeon, Please Heal Thyself Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Newsmax Guy Talks Evolution And Vaccines: What If Some People Just Need Killing? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Joe Biden Just Gave A Damn Good Voting Rights Speech Evan Hurst, Wonkette