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
America’s Declaration of Independence; Former Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day; Israel’s raid at Entebbe; West Point opens; Lou Gehrig’s farewell to baseball; Neil Simon born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.
Breakfast News
Judge blocks Ohio abortion law, clinics to remain open
Appeals court puts Trump abortion restrictions on hold again
No prosecution for Alabama woman who was shot, lost fetus
US still looking for way to ask about citizenship on census
Oregon GOP finds ways to fight Democrats’ grip on power
Judge to reassess $80 million award in Monsanto cancer case
More than 500 applicants vie to sell legal pot in Missouri
Fire destroys Jim Beam warehouse, bourbon flows into river
Orange fireball lighting Florida sky was Chinese space junk
Scientists sound alarm after 6 rare whale deaths in a month
Rouhani: Iran will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’
Mexican police revolt against plans to join National Guard
1 arrested after protesters damage Hong Kong legislature
Close the windows? Amsterdam mulls red light district change
Putin signs bill suspending participation in nuclear treaty today
Deals made at secretive EU summit deliver top job nominees
Rescue ship ‘bumped’ Italy police boat, in judge’s resizing
Arctic mission will trap scientists in ice to study climate
Heavy rain in south Japan, over 1 million directed to leave
Volcano erupts on Sicily’s Stromboli island; 1 person killed
Breakfast Blogs
Once Upon a Time, These Photos Would Have Sent the Whole Country Aflame Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Steele Dossier and the Mueller Investigation: Carter Page emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
What Was Your First Memory? Echidne, at her blog
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God… digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Nevertheless, watch your backs Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
Unpacking the State Dept Acknowledgment that 2001 and 2002 AUMFs Don’t Authorize War Against Iran Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman, Just Security
Federal Court Orders Bond Hearings for Imprisoned Asylum Seekers Andrew Patterson, Lawfare
Triumph of the shill Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How About the Senate? Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Freshman Class: Sing a Song For the New Breed Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Riders of the Purple Wage* driftglass, at his blog
What to Expect at Donald Trump’s America Is So Great ExMAGAganza The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL’S REPORT ON BORDER MIGRANT FACILITIES IS THE NEW MUELLER REPORT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog