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 United States enters World War One; First modern Olympic Games open in Athens, Greece; Harry Houdini is born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Breakfast News
Pipeline opponents ask judge to strike down Trump’s permit
Houston fires renew safety debate in oil-friendly Texas
South Carolina: Moving plutonium belies Nevada claim of risk
US judge orders quicker bond hearings for asylum seekers
Judge again halts high-capacity magazine sales in California
Arkansas Senate approves bill banning ‘sanctuary’ cities
3rd federal judge blocks citizenship question on 2020 census
Saudi Arabia arrests more activists, including 2 US citizens
UK, US, and France warn Syria not to use chemical weapons
UK’s prime minister asks EU to delay Brexit until June 30
Drug tests then debate in Ukraine’s presidential runoff
US revokes visa for International Court prosecutor Bensouda
ICC judges allow case against Gadhafi’s son to go ahead
Germany urges EU to divvy up migrants stranded at sea
The Latest: UK’s Hunt: Assange can leave embassy whenever
Kosovo-Serbia tensions disrupts climate conference
Breakfast Blogs
Alabama Republicans Want to Legalize Political Corruption Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Irony of Glenn Greenwald Cuddling Up with Bill Barr, the Grandfather of Ed Snowden’s Phone Dragnet emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheek
Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Requiem for the downward-mobile Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The Privacy Rights of Terrorism Defendants, Muslim and Non-Muslim Charles Kurzman, Lawfare
How Can We Forget You Ever Existed If You Won’t Go Away? SCot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Hey Joe Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Peggy Noonan Remembers Thee Olde Democratic Party Was Warm… driftglass, at his blog
Brooks on Poverty Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
White Nationalists Suspected of Fire at Important Civil Rights Location The Rude Pundit, at his blog
BIDEN IS NOW SOWING DIVISION AMONG DEMOCRATS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog