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
The Watergate scandal begins to unfold; The Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolution; O.J. Simpson arrested in the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman; Singer Kate Smith dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
How can you run for president if you don’t know the job description?
Breakfast News
7 US Navy crew reported missing after collision off Japan
Hundreds gather at protest after Minnesota officer acquitted
Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market in $13.7bn deal
Bat sign lights up the sky over Los Angeles in a tribute to Adam West
Father’s Day founder was renegade, great-granddaughter says
London fire may have destroyed DNA needed to ID victims
Uncertainty over Islamic State leader’s fate after airstrike
New French revolution? Novices set to take over parliament
Australia to hold first nationwide gun amnesty in 21 years
Breakfast Blogs
This Is Not an Ideal Time to Have White Supremacists Infiltrating Law Enforcement Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Wyden to Coats: Admit You Know NSA Is Collecting Domestic Communications under 702 emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
A Touch To Much Of DOJ Politicization: Rosenstein Above Brand bmaz, emptywheel
When Women Speak. The Examples of Kamala Harris and Veronika Hubeny. Echidne, at her blog
A Very, Very Dangerous Situation Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog
The King’s loyal manservant digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Trump investigation: Noise to signal ratio Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
McConnell’s Nihilism Works Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
This Week In Fringe Leftist Heresy Becoming Serious Conservative Orthodoxy: Andrew Sullivan driftglass, at his blog
I’M SURE YOU’LL BE SHOCKED TO LEARN THAT TED NUGENT’S KUMBAYA ACT IS A COMPLETE FRAUD Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Wall Street Still Annoyed That Competition Forced Wireless Carriers To Bring Back Unlimited Data Plans Karl Bode, Techdirt