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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
President Bill Clinton denies affair; first European settlers in Australia ; General Douglas MacArthur is born ; Wayne Gretzky born; musical ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ opens
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it’s perhaps far more terrible than it’s ever been.
Breakfast News
Pennsylvania GOP take gerrymandering case to US high court
Trump administration supports suit over Berkeley speakers
NAACP sues Homeland Security over Haiti immigration policy
Public land politics mark Denver debut of outdoor trade show
Execution delayed for Alabama inmate in ’85 officer killing
Gay candidate barred from running for sheriff by Alabama GOP
Three earthquakes rock California in single day
Harvard’s Hasty Pudding says it will allow women to join
Hospital fire kills more than 30 people in South Korea
Egypt places colossus of Ramses II in atrium of new museum
UN official says not safe yet for Rohingya return to Myanmar
Lava spilling from Philippine volcano, ash coating land
Hundreds evacuated around Paris as Seine keeps swelling
Breakfast Blogs
An Important Update on the Most Advanced Military in the World Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Why Did Trump Tweet an “In the Ball Park” Accurate Number for Hillary’s Total Staffers on June 9, 2016? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Courtland Sykes On Women’s Rights Echidne, at her blog
“Bring me some tariffs!!!” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Without consent of the governed Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Passion of the Glenn Greenwald Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns and Moeny
“I Must Reiterate That the Lawyer We’re Paying $1,000/HR To Represent Us Thinks I Did a Bang-Up Job” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
I’m innocent — just ask my lawyer Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
This Column is a Trick — Part II driftglass, at his blog
IN IMITATION OF THEIR RUSSIAN MASTERS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog