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
Alabama Gov. George Wallace shot on presidential campaign trail; Newly-founded Israel attacked by Arab neighbors; The U.S. Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil.; Country singer June Carter Cash dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter – each time I enter a room I wonder what I’m here after.
Tim Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019)
Breakfast News
Alabama Senate passes near-total ban on abortion
DeSantis: Russians accessed 2 Florida voting databases
‘Bathroom bill’ sponsor Bishop wins N. Carolina GOP primary
San Francisco bans police use of face recognition technology
Border wall to go up in national monument, wildlife refuge
New liver transplant rules begin amid fight over fairness
New museum opening at Statue of Liberty
Germany’s Merkel edges closer to Macron on 2050 climate plan
Global worries flare over whether US sliding toward Iran war
Saudi Arabia says its oil pipeline was hit by drones
UK’s May to make new push on her Brexit deal next month
Duterte allies appear to have won Philippine Senate seats
Parents sue tycoon’s firm over dysentery outbreak in Moscow
Papua New Guinea assesses extent of damage from strong quake
Breakfast Blogs
You’ve Seen His Trade War. Imagine Donald Trump Running an Actual War. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Rick Gates’ Status Report Suggests Trump Will Be a Focus of Roger Stone’s Trial emptyhwheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Real men go to Tehran digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Their spirit is dead Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
All the President’s Lawyers: A Chart of Misconduct and Possible Crimes Revealed by Mueller Report Ryan Goodman and Alex Potcovaru, Just Security
The devil fools with the best laid plan Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
50 years of Republican Supreme Courts Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Grandpa Joe Continues To Promise To Do Shots With Reagan Until Bipartisanship driftglass, at his blog
For the record: Semiotics of Outrage Calumny Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
Elizabeth Warren Tells Fox “News” to Go Fuck Itself with Roger Ailes’s Femur The Rude Pundit, at his blog
THEY JUST CAN’T STOP NORMALIZING TRUMP Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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