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
JFK and Nixon participate in TV’s first presidential debate; Cuba ends Mariel boatlift; Composer George Gershwin, poet T.S. Eliot and tennis star Serena Williams born; ‘West Side Story’ hits Broadway.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
Breakfast News
The Latest: NYC restates virus rules for private schools
Officials report Oregon’s largest daily COVID-19 case count
Virus cases rise in US heartland, home to anti-mask feelings
Florida reopens state’s economy despite ongoing pandemic
2 charged over handling of virus outbreak at veterans home
Landlords suing to push back against eviction ban
California braces for power shutoffs and warm, windy weekend
Appeals court hears fight over Trump tax returns — again
New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen last week
Virus surges in France, Marseille fights against closures
Madrid resists government pressure to extend soft lockdown
Local lockdowns imposed in several cities as UK cases rise
Giant rat wins animal hero award for sniffing out landmines
Breakfast Blogs
Secret Tapes Are All the Rage These Days Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Billy Barr Releases 302 that Proves View of Pro Mike Flynn Agent Held Sway in Mueller Report Conclusions emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Debunking the US Attorney From the Middle District of Pennsylvania’s Disinformation Campaign Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice
Sure he’ll leave office — only if his handpicked toadies on the Supreme Court vote against him digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Joe Biden: Low-key, high scores Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
All the President’s Lawsuits: Fraud, Defamation, and the Westfall Act Chimène Keitner and Steve Vladeck, Just Security
Circuit Judges Treat Trump’s Arguments Against Manhattan DA’s Subpoena for Tax Returns Like Nonsense Matt Naham, Law & Crime
‘That Turns the Constitutional Order Upside Down’: Appeals Court Resurrects Lawsuit to Stop Trump from Diverting Funds to Border Wall Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Two Centuries of Compromise Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
People are here spreading mistakes and arguing passionately with the facts wrong. Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
How Life in the Bill Kristol Household Has Changed driftglass, at his blog
If Trump Was Telling the Truth About Voter Fraud, People Would Be Arrested (But He’s Not) The Rude Pundit, at his blog
RON DeSANTIS WILL GET PEOPLE KILLED — AND PROBABLY WON’T GET TRUMP REELECTED Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
NICE TIME! Judge Overturns Stupid Montana Law That Made It Harder For Native Americans To Vote Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Post Office Undoes *Most Of* Louis DeJoy’s F*ckery, We’ll Take The Win Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Kayleigh McEnany: Christ, What An Asshole Evan Hurst, Wonkette
FBI Director Wray Testifies Truthfully About Elections, And Mark Meadows Is NOT HAVING IT Liz Dye, Wonkette