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 first men to walk on the Moon; Viking One lands on Mars; Nazi Germany’s dictator Adolf Hitler wounded in an assassination attempt; Mountaineer Edmund Hillary and musician Carlos Santana born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Breakfast News
US News
Illinois college boards suggest schools require vaccination
Arizona again reporting over 1,000 new COVID-19 cases
Navajo Nation reports 6 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths
Size of Oregon wildfire underscores vastness of the US West
US Politics
Biden wants spending to boost economy, but GOP to block vote
McCarthy proposes 5 Republicans to sit on Jan. 6 panel
Capitol rioter who breached Senate gets 8 months for felony
Microsoft Exchange hack caused by China, US and allies say
In step to shut Guantanamo, Biden transfers Moroccan home
New chief selected for Capitol Police after 1/6 insurrection
AP source: Biden looks to increase staffing of Cuba embassy
California court upends part of law to protect gay seniors
Texas Democrats see walkout as the way out of party slump
$1B stimulus spending OK’d; Pine Tree Power veto sustained
International News
The Latest: Korea PM apologizes for virus surge on destroyer
Virus surge fears, UK leader’s quarantine, mar ‘Freedom Day’
Anger as French protesters compare vaccines to Nazi horrors
Canada to let vaccinated US citizens enter country on Aug. 9
Indonesian Muslims mark grim Eid amid devastating virus wave
New Haiti leader with international backing to take charge
Leftist rural teacher declared president-elect in Peru
Sports
Baltimore rookie Watkins pitches Orioles to 6-1 win vs Rays
Lester, Soto power Nationals in 18-1 rout of Marlins
Sheets’ homer gives White Sox doubleheader split with Twins
Japan girds for a surreal Olympics, and questions are plenty
Female surfers overcome sexism’s toll to earn Olympic berth
Ready or not: Short-handed US basketball roster off to Tokyo
Breakfast Blogs
I Don’t Know What in the Hell Merrick Garland Is Doing Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Invoking the Great Task of Ensuring “the Government of the People Shall Not Perish from the Earth,” Judge Moss Sentences Paul Hodgkins to Eight Months Sentence emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Rooting for failure. Again. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
You Want To Own This Lefty, Pal? I’ll Make It Easy. tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The unraveling Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Using The George Floyd Protests As An Excuse, Minneapolis Police Destroyed Evidence And Case Files Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Freedom’s just another word for I’m pretty much an idiot Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s better to be good than to hope to be lucky Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 880 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Class War Comix Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Lindsey Graham Such A POS, He Gets His Own Sunday Show Roundup Again! Michael Mora, Wonkette
Missouri Just Gonna Keep These Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners Locked Up, Because Why Not? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
President Biden Reminds Us Trump Gone, Economy Improving, Inflation Not Forever Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
JD Vance Burns Credibility, Peter Thiel’s Cash, In Doomed Ohio Senate Bid Liz Dye, Wonkette