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
A key moment in the Watergate scandal; Adolf Hitler visits Paris after France falls to Nazi Germany; The typewriter gets a patent; Polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk and TV producer Aaron Spelling die.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
Breakfast News
In blow to Trump, Supreme Court sets higher bar for stripping citizenship from immigrants
Senate healthcare bill suffers swift blow as four GOP senators voice opposition
US refuses to back UN on abortion access in human rights resolution
More than half of Americans want stricter gun laws, Pew study finds
Yellowstone grizzlies can be hunted after endangered protections lifted
In Yemen’s secret prisons, UAE tortures and US interrogates
Brexit: May offers hope for EU citizens, wins guarded praise
France presents new security bill amid extremist threats
Germany to quash convictions of 50,000 gay men under Nazi-era law
Teenage boys wear skirts to school to protest against ‘no shorts’ policy
Venice’s first female gondolier announces he’s transgender
Breakfast Blogs
The Constitution Simply Was Not Built for This Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
In Opinion Mostly Rejecting Jeffrey Sterling Appeal, Fourth Circuit Criminalizes Unclassified Tips emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The “Hectoring” Nancy Pelosi Echidne, at her blog
Why are they doing this? Because they can. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
A fair deal again Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Mitch McConnell is a Repulsive Piece of Shit Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Framing effects and health care Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
And I Looked, and Behold a Pale Whore… driftglass, at his blog
THE DIVIDE IN AMERICA COMES DOWN TO WHICH OF THESE IMAGES UPSETS YOU MORE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Florida Cops Shut Down Secret Spy Plane Plan After Backlash By Locals Tim Cushing, Techdirt