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
Rioting hits Los Angeles after four white officers are acquitted of most charges in beating of Rodney King; Dachau concentration camp liberated; Jerry Seinfeld born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
Worried about virus, US House won’t return — for now
Oklahoma, Utah face scrutiny over malaria drug purchases
In rural US, fears of virus seem far away as stores reopen
Takeaways from a trend toward natural flood controls
Money for meals for California seniors could end in 2 weeks
Biden wins Ohio’s mail-in primary delayed by coronavirus
Gloomy summer looms as pandemic cancels US festivals, trips
No joke: Tupac Shakur needs unemployment benefits
Denver Zoo celebrates birth of 2 African lion cubs
Bolsonaro’s latest crisis threatens Brazil’s virus response
Russian doctors, nurses face more risks as virus cases grow
Virus-ravaged Europe nudges some doors open, not others
Pandemic upends lives of Latin America’s domestic servants
Riots in crisis-hit Lebanon reflect growing poverty, despair
Belgians urged to double down on fries, do national duty
Breakfast Blogs
Camp Runamuck Is Leaking Like a Sieve Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Trump Policy Maximizes Deaths in Food Factories emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Death Cult choir digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
“Infodemic” Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Terrorism During a Pandemic: Assessing the Threat and Balancing the Hype Jessica Davis, Just Security
Proliferated Nuclear Ethics Gary J. Bass, Lawfare
It’s Jared Kushner’s world Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Try to lead the coalition you have, not the one you wish you had Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Lochnertastic Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Wingnut With The Hungry Eyes driftglass, at his blog
Charles Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
STEPHEN MILLER DOESN’T LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE No More Mister Nice Blog
If Mitch McConnell And Brett Kavanaugh Had A Weird Christianist Baby They Were Grooming For The Supreme Court Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
If Your Dumbass MAGA Uncle Watched Tucker Carlson Last Night, You Need To Read This Evan Hurst, Wonkette
‘Le GOP, C’est MOI!’ Trump Insists, Threatening To Kneecap Republicans Who Forget This Home Truth Liz Dye, Wonkette
Tyrant Gavin Newsom Nationalizes California Restaurants To Feed Your Nana Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Proud Boys See ‘Reopen America’ Rallies As Chance To Recruit Fellow Idiots To Their Cause Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette