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
Live Aid concerts held in London and Philadelphia; A French revolutionary is stabbed in his bath; Civil War draft riots erupt in New York; A power blackout hits the Big Apple; Actor Harrison Ford born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Breakfast News
As US grapples with virus, Florida hits record case increase
Virus spread, not politics should guide schools, doctors say
Undaunted, US global media chief plows ahead with changes
Reports: Washington to shed ‘Redskins’ name Monday
Activists seek to decriminalize ‘magic’ mushrooms in DC
Look out, Mars: Here we come with a fleet of spacecraft
Asia Today: Australian hot spot sees new virus cases decline
Exit poll: Duda leads Poland’s tight presidential runoff
Dengue prevention efforts stifled by coronavirus pandemic
UN approves aid to Syria’s rebel area through 1 crossing
Libyan forces set conditions for lifting oil blockade
Breakfast Blogs
This Was a Straight-Up Mob-Style Transaction Charles P.Pierce, Esquire Politics
Reggie Walton Seems Interested Revealing Some of Mueller’s Referrals emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The utterly shameless Betsy DeVos digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Why city councils aren’t passing mask laws Spocko, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Growing the electoral choir, Part 2 Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Seattle Police Department Says They’ll Fire Most of Their Non-White Officers If the City Cuts Police Budget Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
The Roger Stone Commutation Is Even More Corrupt Than It SeemsQuinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare
Evangelicals and patriarchy Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 654 Erik Loomis, Lawyers,Guns and Money
The Ismus of Enema Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
ROGER STONE: WERE YOU REALLY SURPRISED? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Lady Who Tried To Cancel Everyone’s Bread Baking Is So Mad She Got ‘Cancel Cultured’ Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Grown-Ass President Wants A Cookie For Wearing A Mask In Public Stephen Robinson, Wonkette