The Breakfast Club (Destiny)

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.

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This Day in History

The Pentagon Papers hits newsstands amid the Vietnam War; Thurgood Marshall nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court; The ‘Miranda’ warning; Pioneer 10 leaves solar system; Swing legend Benny Goodman dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Henry Miller

Breakfast News

Putin critic Alexei Navalny among over 1,000 detained in Russia

May and Macron plan joint crackdown on online terror

‘They said girls don’t ride bikes’: Iranian women defy the cycling fatwa

Trevi levy: Rome imposes fines for frolicking at famous fountains

Another appeals court upholds block on Trump’s revised travel ban

Puerto Rico governor to take statehood case to Washington but faces US snub

Ohio board to online charter school: Pay back disputed $60M

Rivers in US West turn dangerous as days warm, snow thaws

Breakfast Blogs

This Fight Will Be Long, Bloody, and Partisan Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

Privacy Community Lets Dan Coats Off Easy in Letter Accusing Him of Reneging on His Promise emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Snippet posts 6/12/17: On love of Our Leader, anti-Sharia Marches and Russian Anti-Corruption Demonstrations Echidne, at her blog

This is some real “Dear Leader” stuff digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Campaign 101 Tom Sulivan, Hullabaloo

Trump Assigned Himself an Awful Lot of Homework That Isn’t Getting Done David Dayen, The Intercept

Extraordinary Josh Marshall, TPM EdBlog

All “X Woulda Won” Arguments Are Essentially Useless Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Politicizing the Condiment Wars Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET YOU ANGRY AGAIN ABOUT THE TRUMPCARE THREAT? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Sen. Feinstein Calls For Section 702 Reforms, No ‘Forever’ Reauthorization Tim Cushing, Techdirt