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
Top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Israel captures fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann; Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde killed; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies; Golf legend Sam Snead dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions. Harvey Milk
Breakfast News
Rivers rising in waterlogged central US; more rain to come
Washington joins West Coast bloc of sanctuary states
US says Trump coal moves hasten but don’t increase emissions
New York puts Democrats a step closer to Trump tax returns
Flu outbreak sickens over 30 migrants at border center
Girl, 10, 6th known child to die after US border detention
Texas approves $3 billion in flood control after Harvey
Interior boss: No monument changes planned, but up to Trump
Officials: Last slave ship from Africa ID’d on Alabama coast
Sea dragons captivate visitors at California aquarium
US lawmakers demand UN health agency change opioid guidance
Last days of May? UK leader in peril as Brexit offer slammed
Supreme leader criticizes Iran’s politicians amid US tension
Russian opposition leader’s associate jailed for 20 days
Ukraine’s parliament snubs new president on election law
Breakfast Blogs
Trump Lost It in the Rose Garden After His Attempted Power Play With Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Competition in Amazon Warehouses Echidne, at her blog
The economy isn’t helping Trump digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Improving lives and shaving margins Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
When Is a “Literally True” Statement False and a Crime Stephen Gillers, Just Security
War Crimes, Pardons and the Attorney General Margaret Colgate Love, Lawfare
The Rheeist Scam Eric Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
A One-Way Ratchet Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and money
What’s wrong with our culture in one data point and one quote Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Unless You Start Arresting People, Impeachment Is the Only Play Left for Congress The Rude Pundit, at his blog
Infrastructure Week Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
FOR HER NEXT TRICK, NANCY PELOSI SHOULD DEMAND TO SEE TRUMP’S ALLEGED HEALTHCARE PLAN Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog