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 10:00 am (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
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
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Breakfast News
Muhammad Ali honored in Louisville: ‘he perfected gifts that we all have’
Unlike Donald Trump, A New Supreme Court Ruling Talks Sense About Actual Judicial Bias
Six US airlines permitted to offer flights to Cuba in foreign policy milestone
Libyan forces fight street battles with Isis for control of Sirte
‘Super Bacteria’ Found At Brazil Olympic Venues, Beaches
Gawker Media files for bankruptcy in wake of costly Hulk Hogan lawsuit
Rancher on horseback lassoes would-be bike bandit in Walmart parking lot
Milky Way no longer visible to one third of humanity, light pollution atlas shows
Breakfast Blogs
Gordie Howe Was the Prototype of the High-Scoring Tough Guy Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
How Did Booz Employee Analyst-Trainee Edward Snowden Get the Verizon 215 Order? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
This Week In 1954, One Man Changed The Country Lester-and-Charlie, Crooks and Liars
Go French Yourself Yastreblyansky, No More Mister Nice Blog
Watch The President Use Fair Use To Support A Trade Deal That Undermines Fair Use Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Hillary Clinton Just Woman-Carded All Over Planned Parenthood, And It Was The Best Evan Hurst, Wonkette