The Breakfast Club (Something In The Air)

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.

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This Day in History

Continental Congress votes to break away from Britain; Civil Rights Act signed; Amelia Earhart disappears; President James Garfield shot; Author Ernest Hemingway commits suicide; Actor Jimmy Stewart dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway

Breakfast News

California expands assault weapons ban as part of new gun laws package

Puerto Rico defaults on $779m worth of bonds despite rescue package

Federal judge blocks Florida law to end abortion clinic funding

Silence the most fitting memorial at Somme commemorations

That’s a lot of cheddar: 20,000 pounds of cheese stolen in Wisconsin

Chinese archaeologists claim to have found Buddha’s skull

Breakfast Blogs

And the Rockets’ Red Glare. Splodey Heads Keep ‘Splodin’! Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Shaping Traffic and Spying on Americans emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Clintons Seem To Have A Need For This Sort Of Thing Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

The curious case of Trump and the foreign donors digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Can you hear us now? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Hugh Hewitt Is A Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America driftglass, at his blog

Leak Reveals Secret FBI Guidelines That Basically Give Them Free Rein To Spy On Journalists And Sources Mike Masnick, Techdirt