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 10:30am (ET) 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
Top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Israel captures fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann; Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde killed; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies; Golf legend Sam Snead dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that my friends, is true perversion.
Harvey Milk
Breakfast News
Snowden calls for whistleblower shield after claims by new Pentagon source
Pakistan says US drone strike that killed Taliban leader violated its sovereignty
Greece pushes fresh austerity drive through parliament
Mount Everest: two climbers killed and 30 needing medical help
Ex-Oklahoma deputy Robert Bates guilty of killing unarmed suspect
WWII female pilots now can be buried at Arlington
Mushroom hunters scour US wildfire maps in search of elusive morel
Breakfast Blogs
With More Guns Comes More Suicide, Study Finds Justin Caba, Crooks and Liars
It looks like he’s going to have to build a wall in the Pacific and the Atlantic too digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The Brunch Davidians driftglass at his blog
Morning Joe Corrects One Trump Lie Under Pressure, Leaves Others Unchallenged Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Larry Summers Gets This Right: We Really Need An Infrastructure Decade Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future