The Breakfast Club (Which Side Are You On)

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

Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent.

Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014)

Breakfast News

Secluded Baltimore mayor resigns amid scandal

Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid

Fearing an undercount, states prepare for 2020 census push

Florida bill mandates felons pay all fees before voting

Louisiana’s The Advocate purchasing The Times-Picayune

Texas fights ‘drastic’ push to require voting map approval

California governor makes big change to giant water project

Tribe says South Dakota governor not welcome on reservation

Judge declines to block pro-Palestinian panel at UMass

Government to house more immigrants in tents at the border

Kansas lawmakers put off overturning abortion-rights ruling

St. Lucia quarantines cruise ship after measles case

Peter Mayhew, Chewbacca in the ‘Star Wars’ films, dies at 74

Venezuela’s Maduro calls for military unity after clashes

Assange refuses extradition to US; long legal fight expected

France, Italy honor Leonardo 500 years after artist’s death

Young Jews march in Poland to remember Holocaust victims

Jewish group alarmed after German police let neo-Nazis march

Sudanese hold mass rally amid standoff with generals

India prepares for ‘extremely severe’ Bay of Bengal cyclone

Rains like no other: Iraq is tested in era of climate change

World Press Freedom Day events raise alarm on fake news

Breakfast Blogs

William Barr Is Orchestrating a Slow-Rolling Coup Against the Constitutional Order Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

One Man’s Declination Decision Is Another Man’s Criminal Suspect Failson emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheeler

Mueller Can’t Get Away With Silence Anymore Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

The “deterrent” was to take the children and not return them digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo

Above the law Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo

Democrats Green Light Trump’s Authoritarian Ambitions Brian Beutler, Crooked

Amid the Nadler-Barr Standoff: Some History of Struggles Over Hearing Processes Edgar Chen, Just Security

Refusing to Take the Senate Seriously Scott lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Tiger Tiger paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

David Brooks Tried The Yoda Thing Out For a Day driftglass, at his blog

Mueller Blogging Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names

We Cannot Be This Nation With the President That William Barr and Republicans Believe We Should Have The Rude Pundit, at his blog

“I DON’T USE THE WORDS ‘DEMOCRATS’ AND ‘REPUBLICANS.” IT’S ‘LIBERALS’ AND ‘AMERICANS.'” Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog