The Breakfast Club (Here After)

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

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