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
Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.
Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014)
Breakfast News
Secluded Baltimore mayor resigns amid scandal
Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid
Fearing an undercount, states prepare for 2020 census push
Florida bill mandates felons pay all fees before voting
Louisiana’s The Advocate purchasing The Times-Picayune
Texas fights ‘drastic’ push to require voting map approval
California governor makes big change to giant water project
Tribe says South Dakota governor not welcome on reservation
Judge declines to block pro-Palestinian panel at UMass
Government to house more immigrants in tents at the border
Kansas lawmakers put off overturning abortion-rights ruling
St. Lucia quarantines cruise ship after measles case
Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in the ‘Star Wars’ films, dies at 74
Venezuela’s Maduro calls for military unity after clashes
Assange refuses extradition to US; long legal fight expected
France, Italy honor Leonardo 500 years after artist’s death
Young Jews march in Poland to remember Holocaust victims
Jewish group alarmed after German police let neo-Nazis march
Sudanese hold mass rally amid standoff with generals
India prepares for ‘extremely severe’ Bay of Bengal cyclone
Rains like no other: Iraq is tested in era of climate change
World Press Freedom Day events raise alarm on fake news
Breakfast Blogs
William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
One Man’s Declination Decision Is Another Man’s Criminal Suspect Failson emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheeler
Mueller Can’t Get Away With Silence Anymore Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
The “deterrent” was to take the children and not return them digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Above the law Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Democrats Green Light Trump’s Authoritarian Ambitions Brian Beutler, Crooked
Amid the Nadler-Barr Standoff: Some History of Struggles Over Hearing Processes Edgar Chen, Just Security
Refusing to Take the Senate Seriously Scott lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Tiger Tiger paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
David Brooks Tried The Yoda Thing Out For a Day driftglass, at his blog
Mueller Blogging Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
We Cannot Be This Nation With the President That William Barr and Republicans Believe We Should Have The Rude Pundit, at his blog
“I DON’T USE THE WORDS ‘DEMOCRATS’ AND ‘REPUBLICANS.” IT’S ‘LIBERALS’ AND ‘AMERICANS.'” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog