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
A shooting rampage takes place at the University of Texas clock tower; Germany declares war on Russia in World War I; Adolf Hitler opens the Berlin Olympics; Author Herman Melville born; MTV debuts.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Breakfast News
Hard-hit Massachusetts worries COVID-19 respite is fleeting
Rent’s due, again: Monthly anxieties deepen as aid falls off
Road trip? Quarantines mess with Americans’ travel plans
Despite virus threat, Black voters wary of voting by mail
Supreme Court weighs New Mexico restrictions on restaurants
Change laws that shield police, Missouri prosecutor says
Supreme Court won’t halt challenged border wall projects
Court overturns Boston Marathon bomber’s death sentence
US officials seek limits on “habitat” for imperiled species
Lake Tahoe’s fluctuating clarity worsens amid wet winter
The Latest: Venezuela unveils coronavirus facility at arena
Final days of hajj and Eid festival impacted by coronavirus
Sleepy lions, empty bars, lost jobs: A world without tourism
Spain sets temperature records, UK sees hottest day of 2020
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what happened this week
Breakfast Blogs
The Federal Government Once Again Double-Crossed Native People, This Time on the Death Penalty Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Ben Wittes Gets Stung by the Trump Effect emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Harpers Letter On Justice And Open Debate And What Followed. Prologue And Act I. Echidne, at her blog
Ok. This is a problem. digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Donald’s “Hey, watch this!” party Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
How Jared Kushner subverted Jared Kushner’s secret plan to save America Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Real Americans Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Curating The Past With Lifeboat Republicans driftglass, at his blog
Where Were You In the War on Reality Yastreblyansky, The Rectifcation of Names
BUT GIVING PEOPLE THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT THEY WANT HAS WORKED SO WELL FOR REPUBLICANS UNTIL NOW! Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Post Office Suddenly Delaying Deliveries Months Before Election, What Could It Mean? Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Senate Republicans Take Long Weekend To Decide If You Should Be Able To Pay Your Rent Tomorrow Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Happy Friday! Let’s Talk About Mary Trump’s Big Gay Interview! Evan Hurst, Wonkette
The Bloodhound Gang And The Mystery Of Congressman Cowpies’ Hidden DHL Receipt! Liz Dye, Wonkette