The Breakfast Club (Cycles)

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.

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This Day in History

Alabama Gov. George Wallace makes a symbolic stand against racial integration; A Buddhist monk immolates himself in South Vietnam; Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh executed; Actor John Wayne dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Breakfast News

US mayors pledge to uphold transgender protections

Florida commissioner: No mores lapse in background checks

Federal judge blocks Indiana from enforcing voter purge law

No voter registration point of pride, unease in North Dakota

Pine-killing southern beetle may be more deadly in North

Growing Colorado wildfire forces more evacuations

Hawaiians build homes for volcano evacuees

Migrants are saved, but stranded at sea by Italian politics

PM says Ethiopia will not cut Egypt’s share of Nile waters

Disneyland Paris enters Marvel universe with Avengers theme

Breakfast Blogs

Jesus, Take the Wheel Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Stabbed in the Back – Kudlow and Navarro Cheryl Rofer, Balloon Juice

On the Eve of the June 9 Trump Tower Meeting Anniversary, Putin Tells Trump to Keep His Campaign Promises emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

A Listicle of Trump News, To Mess Up Your Day Echidne, at her blog

Trade tantrum for dummies digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

World View tristero, Hullabaloo

Let’s Try Telling the Truth About Republican Health Care Policy Preferences For a Change Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 248 Erik Loomis, Lawyers Guns and Money

TRUMP IS A MADMAN, BUT WE’RE ATTACKING THE AMERICANS WHO UNDERSTAND THAT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog