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
Nazi Germany’s capital Berlin falls in World War II; Artist Leonardo da Vinci dies; Civil War Gen. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson killed; Nelson Mandela claims victory in South Africa vote; Singer Bing Crosby born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
Breakfast News
School safety at forefront of teacher rally after shooting
Texas lawmakers want to make clear guns allowed in churches
Harvest of striped bass needs to be cut back in Atlantic
Florida lawmakers pass bill allowing more armed teachers
Maine becomes 1st state to ban single-use foam containers
Another asylum-seeker makes national poetry contest finals
Venezuelans take to streets as uprising attempt sputters
Agitators, tear gas cloud May Day march in Paris
IS leader outlines path forward for his group post-caliphate
UK defense chief fired over Huawei leaks, denies involvement
On 1st day as Japan’s emperor, Naruhito vows to pursue peace
UK climate panel sets big goals: less meat, drive electric
Garbage clogs once-clear rivers in Bosnia, govt is blamed
Thailand’s king appoints his consort as queen
Chinese fossil sheds light on mysterious Neanderthal kin
Breakfast Blogs
William Barr Is a Flunky in Service to a Crooked Presidency* Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
William Barr Absolved Trump of Obstruction without Having the Faintest Clue What He Obstructed emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Where Echidne Grumbles About Algorithms Echidne, at her blog
Bill Barr, unitary executive extremist digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Defiled hard Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
READ: Mueller Letter To Barr Reveals New Contacts Over Release Of Report Josh Kovensky, Talking Points Memo
Barr to Senate: President is Not Immune from Prosecutor Declaration of Indictable Offense Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Dead Souls Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
William Barr Thinks Donald Trump Is Above the Law Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
THE GREAT AMERICAN QUEST FOR MIDDLE GROUND Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog