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
Magellan begins globe-trotting voyage; Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal dies; Actress Sophia Loren born; Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in ‘Battle of the Sexes’; Singer Jim Croce dies in plane crash.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
A fool I am and I’ll always be. They can change their minds, but they can’t change me.
Breakfast News
US airstrike kills at least seven Afghan police officers in Uruzgan
Syria: UN aid convoy targeted by airstrike while delivering food
Gun inequality: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge fish biologist finds office ‘completely trashed,’ she testifies
DNA from the deep? Antikythera shipwreck yields ancient human bones
‘World’s saddest’ polar bear offered new home in UK
Breakfast Blogs
Don’t Believe the Charter School Hype Charles Pierce, Esquire Poltics
Why Is HPSCI’s Snowden Report So Inexcusably Shitty? emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, empywheel
In addition to torture, no medical care or food for terrorist suspects digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
When we transform the economy to deal with climate change, what should we transform it to Gaius Publius, Hullabaloo
The Vast Conspiracy of Forgetting: E.J. Dionne driftglass, at his blog
The Multipple Fallacies That Are Keeping Trump In Contention Steve M, No More Mister Nice Blog
Inspector General Says FBI Probably Shouldn’t Impersonate Journalists; FBI Says It Would Rather Impersonate Companies Anyway Tim Cushing, TechdirtHouse Intelligence Committee’s List Of ‘Snowden’s Lies’ Almost Entirely False Mike Masnick, Techdirt
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