The Breakfast Club (Go The Distance)

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.

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This Day in History

Timothy McVeigh convicted in the Oklahoma City bombing; Coronation day for Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II; Pope John Paul II visits Poland; Baseball’s Lou Gehrig dies.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

Breakfast News

From distillers to farmers, trade war would cause casualties

Caesars workers threatening strike in Las Vegas reach deal

Judge agrees to halt fetal heartbeat abortion law in Iowa

Missouri governor quits in scandal, signs ‘revenge porn’ law

Remaining wreckage of Flight 93 to be buried at memorial

Spain’s new leader takes aim at corruption, austerity

Populists take power in Italy, with euro-skeptic agenda

US blocks UN health panel from backing taxes on sugar drinks

Macron talks to Trump, says tariffs illegal and a mistake

Russia talks LGBT tolerance for WCup but locals have dou

Breakfast Blogs

The 2008 Financial Crisis Was a Mass Hallucination, Says Congress Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Rudy 9/11’s Latest Outrageous Attempts to Obstruct the Mueller Probe emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

The Full Frontal Insult. Or On C**ts. Echidne, at her blog

Friday Night Soother digby aka Heather Digcy Parton, Hullabaloo

Who Else Did Cohen Threaten And Pay Off? Spocko, HUllabaloo

The Great Negotiator Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Authoritarian Abuses the Pardon Power Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

David Brooks: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Forum on Ranked-Choice Voting driftglass, at his blog

NATHAN LARSON IS A HORRIBLE PERSON. THE FACT THAT HE’S RUNNING FOR CONGRESS ISN’T HORRIBLE. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

11th Circuit Says No Reasonable Suspicion Needed For Invasive Device Searches At The Border Tim Cushing, Techdirt