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
The Watergate scandal begins to unfold; The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution; O.J. Simpson arrested in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman; Singer Kate Smith dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Breakfast News
British lawmaker dies after shooting and stabbing attack that stuns nation
The gun the Orlando shooter used was a Sig Sauer MCX, not an AR-15. That doesn’t change much.
Voice recorder from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 found
UK aid convoy to Calais faces ban over ‘security concerns’
Smith & Wesson’s gun sales boosted profits by 50% on last year
Three babies with birth defects caused by Zika virus born in the US
Philadelphia becomes first major US city with a soda tax
Breakfast Blogs
Jo Cox Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump wouldn’t be the first egoist in the White House — but he would be the most dangerous Ronald L. Feinman, Raw Story
Kansas Is So F*cked That Healthcare Companies Are Moving to Missouri Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
It wasn’t meant for “fun” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Now Can We Ditch the Saudis? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Great Divorce drftglass, at his blog driftglass
Does Ex Ante Experience Predict Presidential Success? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The FBI Says Its Homegrown Terrorist Stings Are Nothing More Than A Proactive Fight Against ‘Going Dark’ Tim Cushing, Techdirt