The Breakfast Club (Turn The Clock Back)

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.

Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Pete Seeger

Iowa lawmakers send 6-week abortion ban to governor

Board grants stay of execution for condemned Georgia inmate

Arizona teachers rally as funding vote nears to end strike

9 Puerto Ricans killed in final flight of 60-year-old C-130

Passengers heard window popping on Southwest plane

Heavy rains destroyed or severely damaged 115 Hawaii homes

Dozens of quakes rattle Hawaii volcano, eruption possible

NASA sending robotic geologist to Mars to dig super deep

Oldest male dolphin in the US dies at California park at 54

Benedict Arnold’s hair to be displayed at fort he captured

Russians demand flag fly at now-closed consulate in Seattle

ETA militants declare end to armed fight for Basque homeland

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps await new danger: rain

Hawking’s last physics paper argues for a ‘simpler’ cosmos

Scott Pruitt’s Underlings Are Running for the Hills to Avoid Going Under the Bus Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics

The Mueller Questions Map Out Cultivation, a Quid Pro Quo, and a Cover-Up (Part One, Cultivation) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Quid Pro Quo: a Putin Meeting and Election Assistance, in Exchange for Sanctions Relief (Part Two in a Series) emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

There is such a thing as “fake news.” The GOP calls it “creative license.” digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullbaloo

The Tactics of The NRA Fox GOP Intimidation Machine Spocko, Hullabaloo

Constitutional crisis watch Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Gina Haspel’s Nomination to Head the CIA: Why the Controversy & What is at Stake? Beth Van Schaack, Just Security

Can the Presidency Trump a Special Counsel Subpoena? Steve Vladeck, Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare

Pundit Argues It’s Wrong In Principle to Criticize the Media’s Indefensible Performance Again Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

No One Fights Harder for Our Kids Than Public School Teachers Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

DOUTHAT: I HATE YOU LIBERALS FOR WANTING THIS THING YOU HAVEN’T SAID YOU WANT Steve M.,