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
Andrea Doria begins to sink after a collision in the North Atlantic; An Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris; First ‘test-tube’ baby born; Golfer Ben Hogan dies; ‘A Chorus Line’ opens on Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Breakfast News
Rising virus cases spark concern in Florida nursing homes
Extra unemployment aid expires as virus threatens new states
AP-NORC poll: Nearly half say job lost to virus won’t return
Despite COVID crisis, Congress seeks to do its day job
26 deaths in 3 US convents, as nuns confront the pandemic
Black activists: Portland’s focus on feds only aids message
Judge denies Oregon push to limit US agents during arrests
US sued over expulsion of migrant children detained in hotel
Gov’t: New foreign students can’t enter US if courses online
Lawyer: All new DACA applications put in ‘pending’ bucket
Lost toy dog returns home with help of Cincinnati airport
Missing red panda found safe in Columbus Zoo
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week
Mandatory masks becoming the rule amid Europe’s virus uptick
Always rocky, China-US relations appear at a turning point
Hungarian PM claims EU win but rule-of-law dispute not over
French refinery leaks toxic chemical into marine life area
Siberian heatwave: Wildfires rage in Arctic, sea ice meltsIstanbul’s Hagia Sophia opens as a mosque for Muslim prayers
Breakfast Blogs
Ron Johnson Is Several Pickles Short of a Picnic Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Monopolies Are Why Salt and Water in a Bag Became a Scarce Item David Dayen, The American Prospect
Joe Pientka Warned Trump to Be Worried about People on His Periphery While Flynn Was Signing a Deal with Turkey emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
MMT on International Trade Ed Wwalker, emptywheel
Roy Den Hollander. On Murders And Online Misogyny. Echidne, at her blog
Republicans in fantasyland digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Cancel schmantcel Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The President’s Private Army Elizabeth Goitein, Just Security
New York Leads 20-State Lawsuit Over Donald Trump’s Latest Immigration-Related Census Orders Aaron Keller, Law & Crime
Staten Island D.A. Won’t Prosecute Cops Who ‘Accidentally’ Violate City’s Chokehold Ban: ‘Common Sense Requires’ Repeal Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Can Congress Do Anything about Trump’s Abuse of the Pardon Power? Andrew Kent, Lawfare
The COVID catastrophe Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Without Censorship David Brooks Would Never Have Had a Career driftglass, at his blog
The Luxury of Andrew Sullivan Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
AOC Fucks the Patriarchy’s Shit Up The Rude Pundit, at his blog
TRUMP’S MENTAL IMPAIRMENT IS THAT HE DOESN’T KNOW WE KNOW WHAT A COGNITIVE TEST IS Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Seattle Judge Lets Cop s Rifle Through Reporters’ Footage, Because Them And What Army? Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
In Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Times Sees Scheming Woman Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/the-top-5-trump-hannity-interview-answers-because-you-werent-yet-having-a-stroke Liz Dye, Wonkette
Watch The Obama/Biden ‘Commercial’ That’s Making Trump Blow His Dumb Orange Gourd! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
‘Plandemic’ Lady And Larry Klayman Are Gonna Sue Dr. Fauci For Creating COVID-19 Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette