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
The Johnstown Flood kills more than 2,200 people in Pennsylvania; Israel hangs ex-Nazi official Adolf Eichmann; Bombing suspect Eric Rudolph caught in North Carolina; Actor-director Clint Eastwood born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don’t deal with the causes we will never be safe.
Breakfast News
Merkel, minister stress U.S. ties after critical Trump tweet
‘Shocked’ South Korea leader orders probe into U.S. THAAD additions
Brazil Supreme Court judge orders Temer to respond to police questions
US starts giving arms to Syrian Kurds ahead of Raqqa assault
Pentagon declares success for key test of missile defense
Unease about white supremacy grows after Portland stabbings
3 Mile Island owner threatens to close ill-fated plant
Massachusetts heroin trade crackdown leads to 30 arrests
Supreme Court tightens rules on where companies can be sued
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s White House Is Allegedly About to Get Way More Godfather Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
Two Data Points on Jared Kushner emptywheel, aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
When Trump Plays Tic-Tac-Toe, Others Play Multidimensional Chess Echidne, at her blog
Meanwhile, the wrecking crew just keeps going digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
The British Empire sends its sympathies Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Clinton, Biden, Kerry, and the Dilemma of Women in Politics Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/05/sue-the-sweatshops Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Great Reset Begins Anew driftglass, at his blog
Clannishing Act Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY: NOT FOR THE RICH, PLEASE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Congress Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give DHS Agencies Access To NSA Collections Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Former FCC Commissioner Uses Manchester Bombing As A Prop To Claim Net Neutrality Aids Terrorism karl Bode, Techdirt