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
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles; The Six-Day War erupts in the Mideast; Birth of the Marshall Plan; First reported AIDS cases in the U.S.; Former President Ronald Reagan dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Breakfast News
US court weighs if climate change violates children’s rights
Trump-GOP split: Senators loudly oppose Mexico tariff threat
Trump administration halts cruises to Cuba under new rules
After massacre, Virginia governor demands action on guns
Homelessness rises 12% in Los Angeles County, study finds
San Francisco to force treatment on mentally ill drug users
California man freed from life prison sentence for joyriding
New York poised to become first state to ban cat declawing
Connecticut lawmakers move to ban ‘gay panic defense’
st Mexican gray wolf litter born at Phoenix Zoo in 20 years
World’s biggest Nutella factory blocked by French workers
Trump baby blimp flies in London as protests greet president
A secret pay raise by Cabinet angers Palestinian public
Alarm as Ebola outbreak reaches 2,000 cases, picks up speed
Cyprus, Greece, Armenia pledge closer ties, boost stability
Baghdad’s Green Zone reopens to the public after 16 years
Breakfast Blogs
Congress Finally Passed That Disaster Relief Bill Despite 56 (!) House Republicans Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Carter Page Shared “Immaterial Non-Public Information” with Rosneft While “Working” for Trump emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Centenary of The Nineteenth Amendment Echidne, at her blog
One party listens to their base. The other … doesn’t. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Can the GOP serve two masters? Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Political Costs of Not Impeaching Trump Adam Jentleson, GQ
Why crap stats about gun free zones must be called out Spocko, Spocko’s Brain
How U.S.-Iran Tensions Could Disrupt Iraq’s Fragile Peace Ranj Alaaldin, Lawwfare
“Perpetuation of racial entitlement” indeed Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
There’s nothing to whipping a fool Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 482 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Burn The Lifeboats driftglass, at his blog
For the Record: June 4 Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Our Government Is a Child Abuser The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE THINGS WE DO FOR (SELF-)LOVE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog