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
Brown vs. Board of Education ends separate but equal; Watergate hearings begin; NYSE is born; First Kentucky Derby.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.
Archibald Cox
Breakfast News
Missouri court overturns law enacted after Ferguson unrest
Washington becomes latest state to seek ID compliance
Family: Texas boy, 7, hospitalized without parental approval
Texas moving to exclude ‘dreamers’ from college work-study
Convicted soldier Chelsea Manning will stay on active duty
Rash of media murders highlights deadly threats in Mexico
Iran reformist drops out of election, supports Rouhani
Spend more, tax the rich: UK’s Labour stakes election turf
Scientists find 38 million pieces of trash on Pacific island
Breakfast Blogs
This Would Be as Impeachable an Offense as Anything Nixon Did Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Hot and Cold Running Sources and Methods Outrage emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
More Popcorn, Please Echidne, at her blog
Ok, this is just scary digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Fireflies in a jar Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
“Moderate” Republicans Insult Your Intelligence About Their Atrocious Health Care Law Scott Lemieux, Lawyers Guns and Money
David Brooks, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 driftglass, at his blog
If You Talk Back To A Congressman, You’re A Terrorist Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Latest FISA Court Order Details Why NSA Didn’t Get Any 702 Requests Approved Last Year Tim Cushing, Techdirt