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
France falls to Nazi Germany on what becomes a day of several key events during World War II; Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in their boxing rematch; Entertainers Judy Garland and Fred Astaire die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
Elizabeth Warren
Breakfast News
Mario Draghi and Janet Yellen poised for EU referendum fallout
EU Set To Extend Sanctions Against Russia Until 2017
North Korea Launches 2 Missiles
Record 65.3 Million People Were Displaced Last Year: UNHCR
U.S. Likely Won’t Deliver On Promise To Resettle 10,000 Syrian Refugees
Twin wildfires raging near LA are ‘0% contained’ say authorities
Amazon and Google’s drone delivery plans hit snag with new US regulations
Three Arrested With Cache Of Weapons, Some Loaded, Near Holland Tunnel
Graffiti artist banned from 20% of US after Reddit users’ investigation
Christie follows Trump’s lead and targets poor schoolchildren in last year in office
Paul LePage Threatens To Drop Food Stamps Because Of His Soda Freakout
Texas restores 330-year-old French ship that brought settlers to doomed colony
Breakfast Blogs
The Sheer Number of Guns in America Will Kill Us With or Without Terrorists Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
You were expecting, what? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Reductio ad Derpum Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Nixon Goes To China driftglass, at his blog
No, The Brooklyn Voter Purge Was Not A Conspiracy To Defeat Bernie Sanders Steve M., No More mister Nice Blog
Men Exiting Workforce as Low-Wage Jobs Vanish Yves Smith, naked capitalism
Seeing Opportunity, Congress Tries To Rush Through Its Plan To Legalize FBI Abuses Citing ‘Orlando!’ Muike Masnick, Techdirt
Key Details about the Mitch McConnell Bid to Expand FBI Surveillance emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel