The Breakfast Club (Quick Escape)

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

The Pentagon Papers hits newsstands amid the Vietnam War; Thurgood Marshall nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court; The ‘Miranda’ warning; Pioneer 10 leaves solar system; Swing legend Benny Goodman dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Jerrold Nadler

Breakfast News

The Latest: Dallas officials agree to 90-day ban on tear gas

Judge orders Seattle to stop using tear gas during protests

Treasury chief refusing to disclose recipients of virus aid

Some states hit pause, others press on amid spike in virus

CDC posts long-awaited tips for minimizing everyday risk

Florida migrant towns become coronavirus hot spots in US

Firefighters grapple with triple-digit heat against wildfire

Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading

MLB offers players 80% of prorated salaries, 72-game season

Face masks with windows mean more than smiles to deaf people

Aid groups ‘alarmed’ by little US coronavirus assistance

Indian capital’s crematoriums overwhelmed with virus dead

Syria economic meltdown presents new challenge for Assad

Pulling down statues of racists? Africa’s done it for years

Statues boarded up in London as more protests expected

Prince Charles to host Macron to mark De Gaulle WWII appeal

Breakfast Blogs

It Appears Republicans and Democrats Were Both Justified in Worrying About John Bolton’s Book Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Jeff Wall Admits that Any Scrutiny of DOJ’s Motion to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution Will Cause Irreparable Harm to Bill Barr emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

COVID-19 Exposes Migrant Worker Conditions Amounting To Modern Day Slavery In Florida Agriculture Jim White, emptywheel

June 1,2020, a day which will live in infamy digb aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

What matters and what doesn’t Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Redactions in CDC Communications Policies Leave Key Questions Unanswered Anna Diakun, Just Security

Did a Government Drone Flight Over a Protest Violate the Fourth Amendment? Nathaniel Sobel, Lawfare

The Rapidly Expanding Frontiers of Fighting Our Racist History Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The coming 2020 ratf*ck: cutouts and conduits edition Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Apology Not Offered Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The Trump administration will now allow doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people Katelyn Burns, Vox

Cotton Mouth Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

JARED KUSHNER IS THE ’62 METS OF POLITICAL AIDES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Let’s Say Buh-Bye To ‘Qualified Immunity’! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette

Tucker Carlson Heard About Some Boobies And Now He Is So Mad Evan Hurst, Wonkette

Propaganda Outlet OANN Yanks Pro-Trump Poll For Being TOO STUPID, EVEN FOR THEM Liz Dye, Wonkette

Black Lives Matter Goes Mainstream Stephen Robinson, Wonkette

Iowa Mail-In Voting Worked So Well, Republicans Promise #NEVERAGAIN Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

Please, Andrew Cuomo, The Columbus Statues Are Embarrassing. Let Them Go. Roby Pennacchia, Wonkette