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
‘Son of Sam’ killer David Berkowitz caught near New York City; Leno and Rosemary LaBianca murdered by Charles Manson’s cult; FDR stricken with polio; The Smithsonian Institution established.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Breakfast News
No parties, no trips: Colleges set COVID-19 rules for fall
US tops 5 million confirmed virus cases, to Europe’s alarm
Puerto Rico halts primary voting in centers lacking ballots
5.1-magnitude quake hits North Carolina, causes minor damage
States on hook for billions under Trump’s unemployment plan
Black people in Portland struggle to be heard amid protests
Native mascots still a sticking point in high school sports
NY governor calls Trump benefits executive order ‘laughable’
Biden vows to block Alaska mine project if elected
Asia Today: Melbourne deaths rise at aged-care facilities
World donors demand change before money to rebuild Beirut
Police break up protests after Belarus presidential vote
Japan’s legacy of forced labor haunts ties with neighbors
Breakfast Blogs
Trump’s Dealings in Scotland Were Typically Shady—and Now, Legally Perilous Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Social Security And Other Entitlements Ed Walker, emptywheel
Trump’s Latest Executive Orders: Head Fakes and Head Games Rayne, emptywheel
The revenge plot against the blue states digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
All the disinformation that’s fit to share Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
‘Would Reek of Jim Crow’: Experts Fear Trump Could Send Federal Officials to Deter Mail-In Voting Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Outflanked XVII: The Authoritarian Vaporware Outflankening Scott Lemeiux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The End of the Monarch Butterflies Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Sunday Morning Comin’ Down: Crazy Pete’s House of Hydroxychloroquine Liquidation Sale driftglass, at his blog
Huge News II Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TELL ME WHY I SHOULDN’T BELIEVE TRUMP WILL SUCCEED IN STEALING THIS ELECTION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog