The Breakfast Club (Building Bridges)

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.

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This Day in History

Continental Congress votes to break away from Britain; Civil Rights Act signed; Amelia Earhart disappears; President James Garfield shot; Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide; Actor Jimmy Stewart dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

Vicente Fox

Breakfast News

Protesters flood US cities to fight Trump immigration policy

Evacuations ordered as winds fuel Northern California fires

Housing extended for 1,700 Puerto Rican hurricane evacuees

APNewsBreak: Border Patrol arrests drop sharply in June

The Latest: 3 to 8 inches of rain fuels Des Moines flooding

Vermont becomes 9th state with legal recreational marijuana

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador on brink of historic presidential win

Canada tariffs on US goods from ketchup to lawn mowers begin

No resolution to German government crisis over migrant plans

Raging wildfire threatens moorlands in northern England

Breakfast Blogs

The Founders Would Be Proud. We Should All Be Proud. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

On My Continuing Obsession with Paul Manafort’s iPod Habit emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Global Responses to President Trump’s Family Separation via “Zero-Tolerance” Detention Policy Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Just Security

Elliott Broidy’s excellent adventure con’t Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

A White House Devoid of Art Vacuumslayer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Today in Cyborg Sent From the Future to Destroy America News driftglass, at his blog

WOULD A PICK OTHER THAN GARLAND REALLY HAVE CHANGED HISTORY? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog