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 Civil War Battle of Gettysburg begins; The first nuclear weapons test in peacetime; TR’s assault on San Juan Hill; Britain’s Princess Diana born; Hong Kong returned to China; Actor Marlon Brando dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
Breakfast News
German parliament votes to legalise same-sex marriage
Justin Trudeau visits with indigenous group in Canada at protest camp
Marine Le Pen under formal investigation over use of EU funds
Europe’s extreme June heat clearly linked to climate change, research shows
States fight Trump commission’s effort to gather voters’ personal data
Climate change set to worsen inequality in US if greenhouse gases aren’t reduced
Breakfast Blogs
Maybe This Presidency Is Not Unprecedented Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Democrats Need a Plan for National Voter Protection emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
“Modern Sexism” in the 2016 Presidential Elections. Echidne, at her blog
Friday Night Soother: Pudu Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The chancellor’s speech Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Trotskyite Offical In Ultraleft State Government Rejects Reasonable Trump Administration Request Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Tummlers and ‘Splainers driftglass, at his blog
THE GOP WAR ON THE MEDIA DEMONSTRATES WHY NANCY PELOSI SHOULDN’T STEP ASIDE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
As A New Wave Of Cyberattacks Rolls Out, Rep. Ted Lieu Asks What The NSA’s Going To Do About It Tim Cushing, Techdirt