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
Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller born; Word of what becomes known as ‘The Roswell Incident’; North Korea’s Kim Il Sung dies; Ziegfeld stages first ‘Follies.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Breakfast News
UK foreign secretary: US decision on Iraqi army led to rise of Isis
Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016, Post analysis finds
North Korea calls US sanctions against Kim Jong-un a ‘declaration of war’
‘One week left’ to pass Zika funding bill in US House, Democrats warn
Super typhoon Nepartak tears into Taiwan’s coastline
Arctic sea ice crashes to record low for June
Breakfast Blogs
Jim Comey, Poker Face, and the Scope of the Clinton Investigation(s) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Republicans Had Another Banner Day of Stupid Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Another day, another police killing Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Not an ordinary election digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Those Were The Days My Friend driftglass, at his blog
Wayne LaPierre, Your thoughts? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Appeals Court Says That Sharing Passwords Can Violate Criminal Anti-Hacking Laws Mike Masnick, Techdirt