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
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space; France’s Napoleon Bonaparte dies; Philosopher Karl Marx born; IRA member Bobby Sands during a prison hunger strike; Carnegie Hall opens in New York
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Breakfast News
US News
The Latest: Michigan lifts mandate for outdoor mask use
Biden aims to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4
Pennsylvania lifting COVID-19 restrictions on Memorial Day
Oregon extends COVID workplace mask rule indefinitely
Oregon State University to require COVID-19 vaccines
Idaho lawmakers want say in spending future US relief money
LA, San Francisco lead California business reopening pace
3 Vegas casinos fully opening after 80% worker vaccinations
As pandemic ebbs, an old fear is new again: mass shootings
Chauvin’s lawyer seeks new trial, hearing to impeach verdict
Wind, rain pound South amid flood fears and water rescues
Endangered condor egg hatches in Northern California’s wild
US Politics
GOP lawmakers in Kansas push COVID-19 relief for businesses
Yellen clarifies she is not predicting Fed rate increases
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills
Judge orders Justice Dept. to release Trump obstruction memo
GOP lawmaker: Three-Fifths Compromise was to end slavery
Montana ends unemployment pay boost amid worker shortage
Amid legal challenge, capital gains tax signed into law
Bid to have House vote on governor’s emergency powers fails
Campaign stunt, ads bring California recall into new phase
Streamlined NC biomass operation permits advance in Senate
International News
‘Horrible’ weeks ahead as India’s virus catastrophe worsens
US report: Taliban will likely curtail Afghan women’s rights
Netanyahu misses deadline, political future in question
International official: Bosnian Serbs seek to split country
Madrid’s champion of soft virus restrictions wins election
Sports
Belt slam in 10-run 1st lifts Giants over Rockies in opener
Booker scores 31, Suns dominate OT to beat Cavs 134-118
Bjork’s 2 goals, shootout winner lead Sabres over Islanders
Svechnikov helps Hurricanes rally past Blackhawks 6-3
Breakfast Blogs
This Ruling Out of Ohio Suggests the Events of Last Summer Are Now Embedded in the Law Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
DOJ Got All the Proud Boy Telegram Texts from Ethan Nordean’s Phone emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Bad Habits Of Thinking Make It Hard To Form Community Ed Walker, emptywheel
Anti-maskers targeting kids digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Meanwhile, in the South China Sea again Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Glorious! Joy Reid Blasts Tucker Carlson And The Fox News ‘BS Factory’ Karoli Kuns, Crooks and Liars
Lawsuit: Cops Trashed An Attorney’s Home In Retaliation For Successfully Defending A Suspect Against Murder Charges Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Oversight Board Tells Facebook It Needs To Shape Up And Be More Careful About Silencing Minorities Seeking To Criticize The Powerful Mike Masnick, Techdirt
DOJ Must Turn Over Secret Trump-Era Memo That Judge Finds ‘Calls Into Question’ Bill Barr’s Statement to Congress About Obstruction, Mueller Report Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
‘Cohen Redux’: Federal Prosecutors Request Special Master, Setting the Stage for Fight with Rudy Giuliani Over Attorney-Client Privilege Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime
Happy 90th birthday Willie Mays Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
If only there was a mechanism available that would allow demand to meet supply Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
American Politics Now Has Two Big Racial Divides Perry Bacon Jr., FiveThirtyEight
Another Steele Dossier? Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Florida Republicans So Mad At Florida Republicans For Making It Harder For Florida Republicans To Vote Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Rudy Giuliani Asks FBI To Believe 10 Impossible Things Before Breakfast Liz Dye, Wonkette
Sweet Christ, Now Republicans Are Defending The Three-Fifths Compromise Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Biden Gets It Right Finally, Raises Refugee Cap Doktor Zoom, Wonkette