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
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
Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
Breakfast News
Union: Strike would cost top Vegas casinos over $10M a day
Abbott’s school safety plan includes few gun restrictions
Gridlock over: Virginia lawmakers approve Medicaid expansion
California Senate supports state-backed bank for pot money
Cryptic emergency alert panics Oregon city’s residents
Yellowstone River to get new trails under oil spill deal
Current lava flows are hottest, fastest of latest eruption
Wildlife park: Bear cubs rescued after mother is euthanized
‘Slain’ Russian journalist turns up alive at news conference
Nicaragua march ends in shooting amid calls for early vote
Pakistan, India agree to stop trading fire in Kashmir
Italy’s populists get another chance to form government
Europe expects to be hit by US tariffs on steel and aluminum
Breakfast Blogs
This Trial Was a Farce Even Before James O’Keefe Popped Up Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On Those Five AT&T Phones Manafort Wanted To Learn About emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Short Posts, 5/30/18: The Le Carré World, The Importance of Facts And The Culture of Cruelty Echidne, at her blog
Classified for thee but not for me digby aka Heather Digby Parton. Hullabaloo
Reason to Hope tristero, Hullabaloo
Take a plea he’s a madman don’t you know Tom Sullivan, HUllabaloo
France’s Creeping Terrorism Laws Restricting Free Speec Nadim Houry, Just Security
An Open Letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Rep. Adam Schiff, Lawfare
A Chill Wind Blows Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Don’t believe liars about anything Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
At Long Last, the ERA Passes in Illinois driftglas, at his blog
WOULD SENATE REPUBLICANS REALLY REFUSE TO CONFIRM A SESSIONS REPLACEMENT? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Court Has No Problem With Multiple Invasive Probings In Search Of Drugs That Didn’t Exist Tim Cushing, Techdirt