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
Adolf Hitler purges rivals in Nazi Germany; America’s food and drug safety take a big step forward; ‘Gone With the Wind’ published; Tonya Harding banned from figure skating; Singer Lena Horne born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.
Breakfast News
Iraqi forces enter Mosul mosque where Isis declared caliphate
Serbia lawmakers elect 1st female and 1st openly gay premier
Venezuela’s top prosecutor charges ex-national guard chief with human rights violations
Mafia gangs move to Germany as business hits hard times in Sicily
Merkel to put climate change at centre of G20 talks after Trump’s Paris pullout
Number of Britons over 65 living in Spain more than doubles in 10 years
Trump risks angering China with $1.4bn arms deal to Taiwan
Arkansas Ten Commandments monument destroyed hours after installation
Climate change set to worsen inequality in US if greenhouse gases aren’t reduced
Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows
Breakfast Blogs
They’re Banging Those Bibles Loudly Across This Great Nation Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Does Maersk Count as US Critical Infrastructure? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay: Truth and Facts Ed Walker, emptywheel
An uplifting story of basic human decency digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hulllabaloo
Bad faith is policy Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
An Solemn Plea For Civil Discourse From Jonah Goldberg Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The only thing that can stop a bad guy exercising his 1st Amendment rights is a good guy exercising his 2nd Amendement rights Shakezula, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Go Go Godzilla driftglass, at his blog
I AM SHOCKED, SHOCKED, THAT UNHINGED BLOWHARDS ARE ACTING JUST THE WAY THEY ALWAYS DO Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Comcast, Charter May Soon Get Even Larger With Joint Acquisition Of Sprint Karl Bode, Techdirt