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
The Alamo falls; The Dred Scott decision brings America closer to Civil War; Renaissance artist Michelangelo born; Walter Cronkite leaves ‘The CBS Evening News’; Ed McMahon and Rob Reiner born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
“The noblest art is that of making others happy”
Breakfast News
Oregon governor signs first gun law since Florida massacre
Florida senators pass gun restrictions; House yet to act
West Virginia legislators eye measures to end teacher strike
Washington becomes 1st state to approve net-neutrality rules
General Mills, Annie’s Mac & Cheese tap South Dakota farm
Taking on ‘microfiber’ pollution, a laundry room at a time
South Korea meeting thrusts North’s Kim into the limelight
Italy’s populist parties rule the day, but will they rule?
Pragmatic candidate livens up Venezuela’s presidential race
Freed Russian spy reportedly sickened after mystery exposure
Malta becomes 2nd European country to lower voting age to 16
Breakfast Blogs
Would You Like Some Russia with Your Russia? Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Nunberg’s Claim that Trump Talked of the June 9 Meeting the Week Before Is Plausible emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Paul Manafort are you reading the papers? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Who do you serve? Who do you protect? – Beltway Edition Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Well my ship’s been split to splinters and it’s sinkin’ fast; I’m drownin’ in the poison, got no future, got no past Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Our man in Moscow Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Destroy All Monsters driftglass, at his blog
THE GOOD GUYS ARE WINNING A FEW, BUT IN THE LONG RUN I FEAR WE’RE DOOMED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog