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
My Lai Massacre in Vietnam; Terry Anderson abducted; First successful liquid-fuel rocket launch; Jerry Lewis born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.
Breakfast News
49 killed at mosques in ‘one of New Zealand’s darkest days’
New Zealand’s history of gun ownership could be upended
Tech companies scramble to remove New Zealand shooting video
Europeans urge Russia to return to arms-control treaty
Slovakia could get its first woman president in ballot
US bars entry to International Criminal Court investigators
Students globally protest warming, pleading for their future
EPA bans consumer use of deadly paint stripper, in rare step
APNewsBreak: Greyhound won’t let US drop migrants in depots
Court: Mississippi must redraw challenged Senate district
ACLU seeks to block fetal heartbeat measure in Kentucky
Maryland House advances bill on Trump family-planning rule
Federal appeals court OKs tax-free housing for clergy
Midwest flooding forces evacuations, closing of road, river
US eases land restrictions meant to protect bird in West
Breakfast Blogs
The New Zealand Attack Is Proof That White Supremacy Is an International Terrorist Threat Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Lisa Page Confirms that the Trump Campaign Investigation Was Different than Russian Info Ops Investigation emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Second Mueller Report digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
White grievance, insecurity, and an overactive sense of history Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
New Zealand Attacks: A Wake-Up Call to Counter Far-Right Extremist Violence Bishop Garrison and Ryan B. Greer, Just Security
Donald Trump is an aspiring fascist, and institutional and cultural forces can’t contain him indefinitely Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s A Man’s World Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Ongoing Adventures of The RetCon Men driftglass, at his blog
Comment Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
You Idiots Are Causing “White Genocide” Yourselves The Rude Pundit, at his blog
IT MAY NOW BE IMPOSSIBLE TO DEPRIVE MASS SHOOTERS OF THE KIND OF ATTENTION THEY CRAVE Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog