The Breakfast club (Fire ‘Em)

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

A key ruling during the Watergate scandal; Nixon and Khrushchev hold a ‘kitchen debate’ during the Cold War; Brigham Young and Mormon followers arrive in present-day Utah; Apollo 11’s crew returns home.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.

Gallagher

Breakfast News

Greece and Russia trade barbs in worsening war of words

Macron orders shake-up of presidential office after bodyguard scandal, reports say

Deaths at sea expose flaws of Italy-Libya migration pact

UK public will blame EU for no-deal Brexit, says Jeremy Hunt

UK to adopt EU laws on combating terrorism and money laundering

At least 20 dead in Greece as wildfires rage out of control

Anti-military protests rock Pakistan in run-up to fiercely contested election

Japan heatwave: record broken as concern grows over 2020 Olympics

APNewsBreak: Judges crack down on illicit inmate cellphones

Administration reports nearly 1,200 family reunifications

Judge denies Trump bid to toss immigration protections case

US Southwest sizzles as temperatures near 120 degrees

Breakfast Blogs

These Aren’t ‘Moderate’ Democrats. They’re Conservative Democrats. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Keith Gartenlaub Wonders Why He Can’t Get the Carter Page Treatment emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Get Carter, Redux Rayne, emptywheel

What Is Happening to the Newspapers? The New York Daily News As The Story Echidne, at her blog

They’re trying to kill us digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

The progressives are coming! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

U.S.-Russia Military Coop: Sec. Mattis Doesn’t Need Congress’ Permission, But Congress Has Control Options Tess Bridgeman, Just Security

Nobody Actually Knows Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Democrats Bad on Immigration Should Be Booed Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Facebook and Holocaust denial Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Never Trumpers Are Being Tormented By Their Younger, Crueler Selves driftglass, at his blog

The Crime. I Yastreblansky, Rectification of Names

FBI Takes 412 Pages To Say Look At Carter Page, Dumb Fucking Idiot Spy LOL Evan Hurst, Wonkette

THE “NON-CONSERVATIVE PANIC” DEFENSE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Bad Bill Would Create A Nationwide Exception To Subpoena And Warrant Requirements For Cellphone Location Data Tim Cushing, Techdirt