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
Islam’s Prophet Mohammed dies; James Earl Ray caught, wanted for killing civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.; Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born; The N.Y. Yankees retire Mickey Mantle’s number.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Breakfast News
Facebook and Google battle latest FBI attempt to expand surveillance
Chinese fighter makes ‘unsafe’ intercept of US plane over East China Sea
Erdoğan lifts Turkish MPs’ immunity in bid to kick out pro-Kurdish parties
Prime minister Modi says India intends to join Paris climate agreement this year
Westerners lack education on nuclear disaster risks, expert warns
French archaeologists unearth bones from 6,000-year-old massacre
Breakfast Blogs
Obama’s “Successful” Counterterrorism Approach in Yemen Has Quadrupled Membership in AQAP emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What We Lost on June 6 Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Erick Erickson Asks Reality for a Divorce driftglass, at his blog
Muhammad Ali Gave A Muslim Prayer Book To The President Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Three Years On, It Appears Snowden’s Leaks Have Damaged The NSA So Badly It’s Healthier Than Ever Tim Cushing, Techdirt
A Shot to the Heart Nick Berardini and Matt Stroud, The Intercept