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
Allies mark VJ-Day as World War II effectively ends; Woodstock begins; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte born; India gains independence; Blast hits Omagh, N. Ireland; ‘The Wizard of Oz’ premieres in Hollywood.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.
Breakfast News
Report: Pennsylvania priests molested over 1,000 children
Judge sets deadline for Army specialist’s citizenship ruling
New Mexico bail reforms shaped ruling in compound case
US appeals court revives suit over border crossing photos
California could reshape pot rules as legal market struggles
Trump Tower operators sued over water release into river
Yosemite reopens to visitors with smoky air, limited lodging
2,000-pound bull escapes, runs loose through Oklahoma City
Turkey increases tariffs on some US imports, escalating feud
Italian bridge collapse sends cars plunging, killing 26
In Haiti, slight progress for LGBT rights is seen as victory
Modi says India will send manned flight into space by 2022
Malta to let rescue boat dock with 141 migrants aboard
Breakfast Blogs
Stoplight Skeptic Gary Johnson Just Decided the Senate Is in Need of a Libertarian Loon Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
There Are Still Mueller Prosecutors Whose Work We’ve Barely Seen emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Paper Ballots. The Best Answer For Secure Voting Systems. Echidne, at her blog
The expedient purge digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Reading Between the Lines: Is Gates Cooperating About More Than Manafort? Barbara McQuade, Just Security
Why the White House Can’t Stop Omarosa Manigault-Newman From Talking Bradley P. Moss, Lawfare
It’s Always Worse Than You Think Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Right wing scum: Dinesh D’Souza edition Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Missouri Post-Mortem Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Face Facts: The GOP Base Flew Past Their Fail-Safe Point Years Ago driftglass, at his blog
It’s what’s for breakfast Yastreblyansky, Rectification of Names
Symbols, things, fetishes, logic, idol worship, perverts, Hayakawa, Korzybsky, Kaepernick and Trump The New York Crank, at his blog
Little Rascals Hack Voting Machines Like A Bunch Of Crazy Ivans Dominic Gwinn, Wonkette
Stephen Miller, America’s Last Bastion Against Humanity Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Iowa Supreme Court Thinks Things Are Too Tough For Bad Cops, Adopts Qualified Immunity Defense Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Court Rejects Ajit Pai’s Bid To Reduce Broadband Subsidies For Tribal Areas Karl Bode, Techdirt