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
President Harry Truman relieves Gen. Douglas Mcarthur of his command in Asia; Napoleon Bonaparte banished to Island of Elba; American soldiers liberate first Nazi concentration camp; Idi Amin deposed as Uganda’s President; Apollo 13 blasts off.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Breakfast News
Texas lawmakers consider the death penalty for abortion
States pushing near-bans on abortion, targeting Roe v. Wade
Arkansas governor to sign anti-‘sanctuary cities’ bill
Trump signs orders making it harder to block pipelines
Bill banning abortions after heartbeat sent to Ohio governor
North Dakota governor signs bill banning abortion procedure
Kentucky districts get subpoenas related to teacher absences
Brain scans may reveal concussion damage in living athletes
Lawyer: Challenge to NYC’s vaccination order in the works
Bomb cyclone storm hammering central US, disrupting travel
New Zealand Parliament passes sweeping gun restrictions
Trick or treat? EU, UK agree to delay Brexit until Halloween
China’s spreading influence in Eastern Europe worries West
Australian election May 18 to be fought on refugees, economy
Trump critic is favorite to become Australian prime minister
Israeli PM Netanyahu poised for 5th term as rival concedes
Castro warns Cubans to brace for shortages
2 busts in Singapore reveal 38,000 endangered pangolins lost
Breakfast Blogs
Infrastructure Week Is a Joke—Until It Isn’t Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Barr and Trump got what they wanted digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Why is Trump Emptying DHS of Everyone But Loyalists? tristero, Hullabaloo
“Pay me now or pay me later” Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report Quinta Jurecic ad Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
How Race Made the Opioid Crisis Donna Murch, Boston Review
That Sweet, Sweet NIMBYism Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If Bernie Sanders hadn’t existed, it would have been necessary to invent him Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks: Donald Trump is a Black Hole driftglass, at his blog
The Drunk Uncle of Our Country Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DEAR “RESPECTABLE” REPUBLICANS: YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO GET YOUR PARTY BACK Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog