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
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