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
Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
If there’s something wrong, speak up!
Breakfast News
Merkel presses Putin over anti-gay purge in Chechnya
May: Juncker will find me ‘bloody difficult woman’ in Brexit talks
Venezuela plan to rewrite constitution branded a coup by former regional allies
Greece agrees to new bailout terms _ and more austerity
Police shooting of Texas teen in moving car violated federal guidance
US high school cancels Canada trip over fears students might not be let back in
Justice department won’t charge white officers in killing of Alton Sterling
US border officers lock up Australian man after he ‘overstayed visa by one hour’
Seals are deafened in noisy shipping lanes, say scientists
Breakfast Blogs
“It’s just pop…” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A Dunning-Kruger party Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
So Much for Liberal Tolerance! Hecate Demeter, at her blog
What Queries of Metadata Derived from Upstream Data Might Include emptywheel aka marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Sean Hannity Cries Himself A River bmaz, emptywheel
The Amazing Disappearing Republican Party driftglass, at his blog
The Gerald Ford Museum Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Why I Critique the Weirder Kind of Evolutionary Psychology Echidne, at her blog
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S ENABLERS Steve M., No More mister Nice Blog
Personal Security Takes A Hit With Public Release Of NSA’s Hacking Toolkit Tim Cushing, Techdirt