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
An assassination in Europe sparks World War I; Elian Gonzalez and his father leave for Cuba; Boxer Mike Tyson disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear; Richard Rodgers and Mel Brooks born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Breakfast News
US, Canada and Mexico pledge 50% of power from clean energy by 2025
Volkswagen to pay owners hit by emissions scandal total of $15bn
Cameron heads to Brussels for summit over Brexit vote
Egypt says flight 804 ‘black box’ fixed as France opens manslaughter case
69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef
Breakfast Blogs
Elizabeth Warren Is Out Here to Keep Hillary Clinton Honest Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
NATO and Brexit emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Brexit: Do-Over!!! Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The ‘Embattled Whites’ Problem Is Worse In America Than In Britain, And Trump’s Still Losing Steve M., No more Mister Nice Blog
The Message Of 2016: Ignore Workers And Working Families At Your Peril Leo Hindery, Jr., Michael Lux and Michael Wessel, Crooks and Liars
DHS Wants Travelers Entering The US To Include Their Social Media Handles… Just Because Mike Masnick, Techdirt