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
Chinese troops crush a pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square; World War II’s Battle of Midway begins; Henry Ford tests his quadricycle; Bruce Springsteen releases ‘Born in the U.S.A.’
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Show of force from law enforcement in Washington
Virginia governor to announce removal of Lee statue
Journalists wage legal fights after facing protest attacks
Senate passes fix for small-business coronavirus relief
US Legislatures slow to pass laws limiting use of force
Pilgrim’s Pride CEO among indicted for chicken price fixing
Cinema chain AMC warns it may not survive the pandemic
MLB rejects 114-game schedule, threatens plan of about 50
Malaria drug fails to prevent COVID-19 in a rigorous study
‘Dangerous’: Around world, police chokeholds scrutinized
Italy opens borders ahead of neighbors, still eyed warily
No crowds delight art lovers in Italy at re-opened museums
Ex-Ecuador president detained in COVID-19 corruption raid
Wuhan tests 10 million people, finds few virus infections
Thousands in Europe decry racial injustice, police violence
EU, China postpone September summit due to pandemic
Germany wants to kick extremists out of military faster
Breakfast Blogs
There Are Consequences to Believing Nonsense Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
The Father of the DEA Dragnet Sics It on Free Speech emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The torture is a feature not a bug digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Lafayette Park Photo-op Massacre Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Invoking “Terrorism” Against Police Protestors Shirin Shinnar, Just Security
Department of Homeland Security Law Enforcement Agencies Require Expanded Oversight Carrie Cordero, Lawfare
‘The Press Is Under Assault’: ACLU Files Class Action Lawsuit Over Police ‘Deliberately Targeting Reporters’ Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Tear Down the Confederate Statues!Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Seniors Speak Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Shaming and shunning Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
t is difficult to get a man to understand something when his precise rank on the Fortune 500 depends on his not understanding it Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
George Floyd Protests and Trump’s Walk of Shame The Rude Pundits, at his blog
Foundering Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
EVEN NOW, TRUMP BELIEVES BLACK VOTERS WILL LEAD HIM TO VICTORY IN NOVEMBER Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Trump Demands North Carolina Allow Superspreader Convention, Or He’s Taking His Germs And Going Home! Liz Dye, Wonkette
Trump Not Bunker Baby, Trump INSPECTOR BUNKER BABY! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Mississippi Prosecutor Sorry/Not Sorry For Hilarious Joke About Protesters Dying Of COVID-19 Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Park Police Didn’t Use Tear Gas ON Protesters, They Used Tear Gas WITH Protesters Doktor Zoom, Wonkette