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
Martin Luther King Jr.’s son meets James Earl Ray in prison for assassinating his father; Comedian Milton Berle dies; the FDA approves Viagra; Quentin Tarantino is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we’ll find it.
Breakfast News
Federal judge ends North Carolina ban on abortions after 20 weeks
Utah bans abortions after 18 weeks, teeing up legal showdown
Chief Justice John Roberts rejects gun rights activists’ bid to block ‘bump stocks’ gun ban
Maker of OxyContin agrees to $270M settlement in Oklahoma
County bans unvaccinated minors in public as measles spreads
Flooding hits South Dakota American Indian reservation hard
Cases of donated water found in old Flint school
Mississippi falling, Corps closing spillway near New Orleans
California crab fisheries to close early to protect whales
California officials: Don’t land helicopters on our poppies
UK government defiant as Parliament takes control of Brexit
Weary Venezuelans adapt to more nationwide power cuts
Algerian army chief calls for president to be declared unfit
‘Second disaster’ warned in Mozambique as cholera a concern
Save The Children: 7 killed in airstrike on Yemen hospital
Myanmar Supreme Court agrees to rule on journalists’ appeal
Dutch art sleuth recovers Picasso stolen 20 years ago
Breakfast Blogs
The United States Government Is Completely Incapable of Dealing With the Climate Crisis Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Three Times William Barr Said Trading Pardons for False Testimony Was Obstruction of Justice emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
It’s the counterintelligence report digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Partisan gerrymandering goes to Washington Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
A Test Case for Post-Criminal Terrorism Detention Steve Vladeck, Just Security
Unpacking the Obstruction of Justice Mystery in the Barr Letter Paul Rosenzweig, Lawfare
Why Focusing on the Presidency Is Bad Politics Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Cabinet of Evil Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Sorry / Not Sorry driftglass, at his blog
Scandalmongering Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DO THE TRUMPERS THINK THEY’RE BULLETPROOF NOW? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog