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
op Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Israel captures fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann; Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde killed; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies; Golf legend Sam Snead dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.
Breakfast News
What you need to know today about the virus outbreak
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Judge demands ICE better explain why it won’t release kids
Memorial Day tempts Americans outdoors, raising virus fears
California rushes to aid virus-stricken border region
Federal prison system to begin moving nearly 7K inmates
AP count: Over 4,500 virus patients sent to NY nursing homes
Record virus infections, deaths are ravaging Latin America
China boosts spending for virus-hit economy, takes up HK law
Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million children
Africa virus cases surpass 100,000; lockdowns slowed growth
Weekly dinners brighten locked-down Last Supper convent
Breakfast Blogs
There Never Has Been a Holiday Weekend Quite Like This One Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
George Papadopoulos Tied the Utility of Russian Dirt to the Campaign’s Plan to Use Dirt to Win emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
More Covid-19 Era Thoughts: On Gender Roles, The Role Of The Media And Trump’s Masks Echidne, at her blog
Why Facebook’s Oversight Board is Not Diverse Enough Jennie Domino, Just security
Life in the Times of the Mad Emperor, The Plague Year, Day 143 Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Trump urges supporters to expose themselves to deadly pandemic in particularly unsafe environments Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Tara Reade is to Never Biden as Glenn Beck was to Never Trump driftglass, at his blog
David Brooks Urges Us to Tighten Up Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
IF THERE’S A BAD SECOND WAVE, TRUMP WON’T EVEN MAKE A HALF-HEARTED ATTEMPT TO SAVE US Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Polls: Americans Not Fans Of Trump Shooting 95,000 Dead On 5th Avenue Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Lancet Medical Journal Won’t Stop Being Mean To Trump And His Magic Hydroxy Boner Pills Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Mike Pompeo And His Many, Many Scandals: A Helpful Guide For The Perplexed Liz Dye, Wonkette
More F*ckery In Florida’s Unemployment System If You Can Even Believe That Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
A Root Beer Heiress And A Bouncy House Heir Walk Into A Barber Shop Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette