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
Crisis unfolds in Little Rock, Ark. over racial integration in schools; Ford rolls out its ill-fated Edsel; Attorney William Kunstler dies; Mark Spitz sets Olympic gold record; Singer Beyonce born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Good questions outrank easy answers.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Myrtle Beach, SC, extends virus mask mandate
White House faces skepticism over prospects for a vaccine
Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest
Mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death
Police use of spit hoods scrutinized after Black man’s death
North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spike
New Hampshire 16-year-old swims across English Channel
Asia Today: India adds another 83K, nears 2nd most in world
UN experts raise concerns over Hong Kong security law
2nd crew member, dead cows found after ship sinks off Japan
Freight firms warn of Brexit disruption amid UK-EU deadlock
Phew! Revolting spit and poo brews shown in Swedish exhibit
Breakfast Blogs
This Is the Latest From the Masks-Are-Jackboots Crowd Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Treasury Threatens to Prosecute Reporters Trying to Reveal What Rod Rosenstein and Richard Burr Would Not emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
185,963 Rayne, emptywheel
It’s the pandemic stupid digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
It’s the insecurity, stupid Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Federal Court Skeptical of Trump’s Efforts to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants from Census Apportionment Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
The D.C. Circuit Got History Wrong in its McGahn Decision Jonathan Staub, Lawfare
Thirty-Six Hours of Cheapfakes Quinta Jurecic and Jacob Schulz, Lawfare
No-knock warrants are never justifiable Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The NFL’s “Commitment” to Racial Justice Erik Loomis, aLwyers,, Guns and Money
Goodfellas v. Casino Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Rand Paul Running Away From Libertarianism driftglass, at his blog
LASER-FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CARE MOST ABOUT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Ted Cruz, Friends: If We Lie About Abortion Pill REAL BAD Can We Get FDA To Ban It? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump Admin Half-Asses An Eviction Moratorium, Hooray! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
We Just Put A Human Rights Official On List Of ‘Terrorists Not Allowed To Do Business With America’ Liz Dye, Wonkette
The Election Is In Two Months. PLAN YOUR F*CKIN’ VOTE! Evan Hurst, Wonkette