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 10:00am (ET) (or whenever we get around to it) 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
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed; Father’s Day first celebrated in the U.S.; The event behind ‘Juneteenth’; Author Salman Rushdie born; NBA draft pick Len Bias dies; Entertainer Paula Adbul born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Two things form the bedrock of any open society – freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don’t have those things, you don’t have a free country.
Breakfast News
US air quality is slipping after years of improvement
33K pounds of cocaine seized in one of biggest US drug busts
PG&E to pay $1 billion to governments for wildfire damage
San Francisco moves closer to nation’s 1st e-cigarette ban
Google puts up $1B to ease housing headaches it helped cause
California governor, lawmaker alter proposed vaccine rules
Newtown parents score a win in growing fight against hoaxers
Boris Johnson builds lead in race to be UK prime minister
Experts say blackout in Argentina should have been limited
France detains soccer great Platini in 2022 World Cup probe
German govt calls official’s killing ‘attack on all of us’
Porous border could hinder efforts to stem spread of Ebola
Breakfast Blogs
The Crimes Against Humanity Are in Progress Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter School Movement Annie Waldman, ProPublica
Detaining Chelsea Manning: Other People, Times, and Patterns emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Xenophobic Breitbart writer Katherine Gorka promoted at DHS digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Migrants with limpet mines Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
U.S. Cyber Command, Russia and Critical Infrastructure: What Norms and Laws Apply? Michael Schmitt, Just Security
The radicals Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Teach for America Scam Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks Protests Layoffs at the Privilege Factory driftglass, at his blog
Brooks on Harvard Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
IN IRAN, WHERE’S THE CRAZY HARD-LINER WHEN YOU NEED HIM? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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