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
Crisis unfolds in Little Rock, Ark. over racial integration in schools; Ford rolls out its ill-fated Edsel; Attorney William Kunstler dies; Mark Spitz sets Olympic gold record; Singer Beyonce born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Breakfast News
US News
Arizona reports 3,802 new COVID-19 cases and 80 more deaths
Virus pushes some California hospitals near ICU capacity
Navajo Nation reports 74 new COVID-19 cases, 1 new death
Efforts grow to stamp out use of parasite drug for COVID-19
Hawaii health care workers decry lack of COVID mandates
Hawaii leaders urge COVID caution over holiday weekend
Vaccination proof required at Olympic Peninsula restaurants
Power to be restored to New Orleans by middle of next week
Ida evacuee’s thought: ‘How am I going to get out of this?’
Rising numbers of Ecuadorians hurt by pandemic head to US
Biden moves to declassify documents about Sept. 11 attacks
US hiring slows as delta variant weakens travel and tourism
Huge wildfire near Lake Tahoe slows as weather improves
US expects to admit more than 50,000 evacuated Afghans
$2.7M award upheld against ‘predator’ landlord in California
Rocket ‘terminated’ in fiery explosion over Pacific Ocean
Baby whale unwell, rule issued to keep boaters away
Landlord finds 19 tarantulas, 1 python left behind by tenant
US Politics
Lawsuits begin as Texas GOP voting bill fight moves to court
International News
Afghan women demand rights as Taliban seek recognition
Afghan media brace for what’s next under Afghan media brace for what’s next Talaban rule
Study documents dramatic loss of remaining Pyrenees glaciers
UN: Brief gains in air quality in 2020 over COVID lockdowns
With no tourist handouts, hungry Bali monkeys raid homes
Half-shredded Banksy could fetch over $5 million at auction
Sports
The Latest: Osaka drops 2nd set to Fernandez at U.S. Open
Virginia Tech holds off Howell, No. 10 North Carolina 17-10
Breakfast Blogs
DOJ Treated Jerome Corsi as News Media but Not Roger Stone or Randy Credico (or Julian Assange) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Here’s What Good Government Looks Like Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix, Balloon Juice
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Still unvaccinated and dying Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Colorado Transportation Officals Asked Navigation App Providers To Plant False Information. Worse, The Providers Complied. Tim Cushing, Techdirt
The Challenge In Content Moderation And Politics: How Do You Deal With Bad Faith Actors? Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Study Suggests Assholes Online Are Routinely Assholes Offline Karl Bode, Techdirt
Federal Court Strikes Down Local Law in Minnesota That Forbade a Woman from Photographing Kids Near Mosque and Park Elura Nanos, Law & Crime
Satanic Temple Cites Religious Freedom Restoration Act to Request Access to Abortion Drugs in Aftermath of Texas Ban Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Feds Must Disclose ‘Identities of Any Unnamed Co-Conspirators’ to Ghislaine Maxwell, Trial Judge Rules Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Another triumph for the intellectual dark web Scott Lemmieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Who Are The Blob? Cheryl Rofer, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Matt Lewis and the “Just the Tip” Republicans driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: Manchin (with bonus rantlet) Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Have You Read That Destructive Texas Anti-Choice Law? It’s Hot, Harmful Garbage The Rude Pundit, at his blog
FIGHT THE NEXT WAR, NOT THE LAST WAR Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Texas Abortion Ban Sadistic, Psychopathic, Dumb As Hell Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Joe Manchin Being A Butt Again Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Is Manhattan DA Cy Vance Getting Ready To Grab Trumpland Exec Matthew Calamari By The Pornstache? Liz Dye, Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/florida-dad-is-onto-our-nefarious-plan-to-depopulate-the-world-with-vaccines Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette