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
Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State; The U.S. Supreme Court upholds racial segregation; Pope John Paul II born in Poland; Movie director Frank Capra born; ‘Les Miserables’ ends its Broadway run.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Breakfast News
Law enforcement ties, long delay complicate Arbery case
US military’s mystery space plane rockets back into orbit
Powell: Recovery may begin by summer, will likely be slow
Post offices, beloved community hubs, fight virus-era threat
California homeless quarantine in hotels, more rooms needed
Tropical Storm Arthur crawls closer to North Carolina coast
Small free libraries offering solace amid virus shutdowns
Priest draws squirt gun in fight against coronavirus
In Detroit, NYC, kindness comes one slice of pizza at a time
Virus heads upriver in Brazil Amazon, sickens native people
Canadian aerobatic jet crashes amid pandemic show; 1 dead
Israel finally swears in government after 3 elections
Tibetans demand China disclose fate of boy taken away in ’95
5 Iran tankers sailing to Venezuela amid US pressure tactics
Turkey’s senior citizens allowed out for second Sunday
Barcelona funeral home closes parking garage morgue
Breakfast Blogs
Maybe It’s Time to Introduce the Zuckerbergs of This Country to the Sherman Antitrust Act Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Steve Bannon’s Bas-Relief Confession that Trump Told Him to Deny Discussing Sanction Relief emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Emptywheel Fabulous Car Blog! Formula One and Car Flicks bmaz, emptywheel
Without A Vaccine, Herd Immunity Won’t Save Us Kaleigh Rogers, Julia Wolfe and Laura Bronner, FiveThirtyEight
Tapper FTW digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Rot by design Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Floating Proletariat Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
To Serve America … It’s a Cookbook! driftglass, at his blog
L’état profond, c’est moi Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
NOTICE THAT TRUMP NEVER WENT ALL IN ON THE TARA READE STORY Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Susan Collins Is Concerned, And That Can Only Mean One Thing Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Insider-Trading Disney Villain Kelly Loeffler Will Lose Her Senate Seat In Either November Or January Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Nice Time: Coal’s Kung-Fu Is Old, And Now It Must Die Doktor Zoom, Wonkette