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
Bruno Richard Hauptmann convicted in the Lindbergh baby kidnap-murder; The World War II bombing of Dresden begins; Konstantin Chernenko becomes Soviet leader; Peter Gabriel born; Waylon Jennings dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
Breakfast News
Judge orders immigration detention hotline restored
Official: Puerto Rico govt loses $2.6M in phishing scam
Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes
Death sentence overturned for Texas man accused of killing 5
Judge voids deal giving UNC statue to Confederate group
White supremacist propaganda spreading, anti-bias group says
$130M in BP spill money to help reconnect big swamp to river
Penned lions still on offer at US trophy hunting convention
Maine whale protection plan doesn’t go far enough, feds say
Cruise ship barred by 4 governments set to dock in Cambodia
China’s Communist Party faces its biggest crisis since SARS
UN list targets firms linked to Israeli settlements
Cyprus urged to go after laundering of foreign illicit cash
Macron to get hybrid car as France steps up climate fight
Breakfast Blogs
The Corndogs and Down Vests Are Over. The Democratic Primary Has Entered the Hot Zone. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Bill Barr Usurped the Power of a Judge Who Was Threatened Herself to Decide the Import of Violent Threat emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bill Barr, wartime consigliere digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Whacking will continue until morale improves Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Jacobin At Last Finds the One Good Liberal Scot Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Grifters and Useful Idiots Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 633 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Result Was to Hand Over the Administration of Justice Into the Hands of a Dictatorship driftglass, at his blog
WOULD EVERYTHING BE BETTER IF BIDEN HAD NEVER RUN? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Rep. Ayanna Pressley Learns The Fed Chair Some Black History, How To Mic-Drop Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
DOJ Sues Over Sanctuary Policies, Because F*ck Immigrants Is Why Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Bill Barr Breaks The Justice Department Liz Dye, Wonkette