The Breakfast Club (Hear Him Crow)

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.

Highlights of Today in History: Brown vs. Board of Education ends separate but equal; Watergate hearings begin; NYSE is born; First Kentucky Derby.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

George Eliot

North Carolina teachers demand better funding in large march

Quakes damage roads as ash spews from Hawaii volcano

Bumble Bee CEO indicted on charge he fixed canned tuna price

Prosecutor will no longer request bail for small crimes

Judge rules Confederate statues removal by Memphis is legal

Syrian military seizes key swath of land in country’s center

Science Says: Green-blooded lizards pose evolutionary puzzle

Scott Pruitt’s Budget Meeting Had No Shortage of Entertainment Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Re: The Bogus Manafort Challenge To Mueller’s Jurisdiction emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

Day Six of My Fund-Raising Week: On Bolton’s Smart Choices And Trump’s Smart Utterances. Echidne, at her blog

http://Day Six of My Fund-Raising Week: On Bolton’s Smart Choices And Trump’s Smart Utterances. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Another Democratic pickup Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

The Are No Magic Words That Can Dispel The Idea That Liberals Are Smug Elitists Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

She Loved Big Brother driftglass, at his blog

DEMOCRATS NEED TO RUN ON ISSUES! … WAIT, NOT THOSE ISSUES! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Senate Approves First Step In Uphill Effort To Restore Net Neutrality Karl Bode, Techdirt