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
Test of the world’s first nuclear weapon; President Richard Nixon’s White House taping system revealed; John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife and her sister die in a plane crash; Apollo 11 lifts off for Moon.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Breakfast News
US News
Surgeon general urges US fight against COVID misinformation
With virus cases rising, mask mandate back on in Los Angeles
Hawaii keeps indoor mask requirement amid COVID-19 surge
Navajo Nation reports 22 new COVID-19 cases and 1 more death
Evacuations expand in Oregon as fire spreads erratically
Coalition blasts plans to divert Colorado River amid drought
Flash flooding sweeps Arizona; 1 rafter dead in Grand Canyon
Regulator sues Amazon to force recall of hazardous products
US requires more tests for safety switches on Boeing 737s
American recalling flight attendants to handle travel crowds
US Politics
Biden bids Merkel farewell: Friends — with disagreements
Top Senate Dem sets infrastructure vote, pressures lawmakers
Cuomo to be questioned in sexual harassment investigation
Arizona election auditors seek more records, voter canvass
DeSantis presses Biden to help keep internet flowing in Cuba
International News
The Latest: Abu Dhabi announces sudden overnight lockdown
WHO chief says it was ‘premature’ to rule out COVID lab leak
Vaccine deliveries rising as delta virus variant slams Asia
Canadian government rejects virus shots in US border tunnel
Fully vaccinated Americans can enter Canada as of mid-August
Pacific Rim leaders discuss economic way out of pandemic
Biden: US will protect Haiti embassy, won’t send troops
25,000 troops deployed to quell South Africa riots, 117 dead
Over 60 dead, dozens missing as severe floods strike Europe
UN appeals for $850 million to help war-torn Afghanistan
Lebanon’s PM-designate steps down after months of deadlock
Sports
Yankees-Red Sox ppd after 3 NY pitchers test COVID positive
Judge orders NFL’s Richard Sherman released without bail
NCAA’s Emmert: It is time to decentralize college sports
Tennis player de Minaur has COVID-19, out of Tokyo Olympics
Breakfast Blogs
This Was Cultural Genocide By an Occupying Force: The United States Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Judge Paul Oetken Eliminates Lev Parnas’ Last Attempt to Weaponize the Former President’s Former Lawyer in His Defense emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Caution On The Guardian Scoop Cheryl Roper, Balloon Juice
A mass-casualty event, happening in slow motion digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
“My dope was a dupe!” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Judge Orders Lin Wood to Explain Why He Shouldn’t Be Disciplined for Posting Video of His Sanctions Hearing Online Aaron Keller. Law & Crime
Full Eighth Circuit to Give Missouri Abortion Law’s ‘Down Syndrome Provision’ One More Chance Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
The graveyards of indispensable men Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 876 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Stupid Shit Andrew Sullivan Says: The Adventure Continues driftglass, at his blog
It’s All True Department Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Republicans Loved the Covid Vaccine Before They Hated It The Rude Pundit, at his blog
EVERY DAY, IN PLAIN SIGHT, THEY SHOW US WHO THEY ARE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Rep Jamaal Bowman Gonna Green Up America’s Schools Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Study: No One Can Afford To Live Anywhere Anymore Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Jesus, Peter Doocy Is Dumb Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Britney Spears Gets Her Own Lawyer, And Maybe Her Own Life Back Soon Liz Dye, Wonkette
Jonah Goldberg Whitesplains Jim Crow To Jim Clyburn Stephen Robinson, Wonkette