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
Truman announces Japan’s surrender in World War II; Blackout hits Northeast U.S., Canada; FDR signs Social Security; British troops arrive in N. Ireland; A strike in Cold War Poland; Steve Martin born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Breakfast News
Dreadful heat, humidity invade South as misery continues
Farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River
Risk of clashes at rally mobilizes Portland, Oregon, police
21 states sue Trump administration over new coal rules
Court rules for US in fight over Nevada plutonium shipment
California counties sue over public benefit immigration rule
Injured baby raccoon Vittles walks again with wheelchair
Flights resuming at Hong Kong airport after protest chaos
Russian military orders village evacuation, then cancels it
Indian-controlled Kashmir under strict lockdown for 9th day
Italy’s premier to face senators amid leadership challenge
UN urges reluctant EU nations to help stranded migrants
Bolton’s UK trade-deal promise leaves questions unanswered
Paris streets near Notre Dame to be decontaminated from lead
Fast, not so furious? Europe wrestles with electric scooters
2 Ebola patients in Congo “cured” with drugs, say doctors
Breakfast Blogs
We’ll Be Lucky to Survive All This Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Four Months Ago Attorney General Bill Barr Called BOP Staff Shortages that Led to Whitey Bulger Murder “a SNAFU” emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Insulin And The Pharmaceutical Industry Echidne, at her blog
The 2021 minefield digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Amendment 2a Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Yes, Trump Could Be Indicted If He Leaves Office in 2021, But Is That Likely? Conor Shaw, Just Security
Miami Vice shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The thin blue line Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I’ll piss on ’em that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
And The Plague Goes Merrily On driftglass, at his blog
Lift My Lamp Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
The FBI Can’t Get Into The Dayton Shooter’s Phone. So What? Tim Cushing, Techdirt
So far, Walmart stands behind your Second Amendment rights. First Amendment? Not so much. The New York Crank, No More Mister Nice Blog