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 U.S. drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan; President Richard Nixon resigns; Charles Manson cult murders actress Sharon Tate and four others; Singer Whitney Houston born; Musician Jerry Garcia dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be ‘meetings.’
Breakfast News
US News
Judge: Norwegian cruises can require proof of vaccination
Weary US businesses confront new round of mask mandates
Police pushback doesn’t stop conservative gun law rollback
Albuquerque matches record number of homicides this year
Fire-friendly weather to return to Northern California
US Politics
Senators on left, right hold together to push infrastructure
Infrastructure push slowed by Tennessee senator’s objection
International News
The Latest: China punishes 30 officials for pandemic failing
Once lagging, Europe catches up to the US in vaccinations
Canada begins allowing vaccinated US citizens to visit again
Taliban takes key northern Afghan cities as battles rage on
Fire devours Greek island’s forests; residents urged to flee
Nagasaki marks 76th anniversary of atomic bombing
China’s wandering elephants may finally be heading home
Sports
US rolls to women’s hoops gold medal in Bird’s last Olympics
US women beat Brazil to win 1st Olympic volleyball gold
Pujols homers against team that cut him, Dodgers beat Angels
Wheeler 2-hitter, Harper HR, Phils beat Mets, 8th win in row
Kikuchi, Seager, Mariners beat Yankees, avoid 4-game sweep
White Sox sweep Cubs at Wrigley as Jiménez drives in 5 runs
Cron homers twice with slam in Rockies’ 13-8 win over Miami
Cabrera gets day off; Zimmer HR lifts Indians past Tigers
Jorge Polanco hits homers twice, Twins beat Astros 7-5
La Stella’s hit in 8th gives Giants 5-4 win over Milwaukee
Lopez key hit in 9th after long rain delay, KC tops Cards
Marte’s 4 hits lead Oakland to a 6-3 win, sweep of Rangers
Snell strikes out 13 in 7 innings, Padres blank Dbacks 2-0
Kyle Larson wins at Watkins Glen, eyes regular-season title
Breakfast Blogs
The Biden Administration Isn’t Kidding Around With the Unvaccinated Anymore Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why Did DOJ Delay Seven Months before Letting Jeffrey Rosen Testify? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
More proof of the serious coup plot digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Trapped in their own con Tom Sulivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo