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
The Johnstown Flood kills more than 2,200 people in Pennsylvania; Israel hangs ex-Nazi official Adolf Eichmann; Bombing suspect Eric Rudolph caught in North Carolina; Actor-director Clint Eastwood born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don’t deal with the causes we will never be safe.
Breakfast News
Louisiana’s Democratic governor signs abortion ban into law
Judge considering Missouri abortion clinic license case
Group building privately funded border wall plans to expand
Border Patrol: Group of 1,036 migrants is largest ever found
Military judge frees Navy SEAL in advance of murder trial
Oregon, awash in marijuana, takes steps to curb production
Lawsuit calls Mississippi’s way of choosing governors racist
Mississippi River spillway opening postponed to June 6
Netanyahu’s future clouded by rivalry with former ally
Trump announces new Mexican tariffs in response to migrants
Saudi King Salman urges international effort to thwart Iran
Honduras president, others targets of DEA investigation
US emergency aid for Venezuela to be distributed in Colombia
Breakfast Blogs
Georgia Republican Michael Williams Ran the White House ‘Witch Hunt’ Playbook Then Promptly Pled Guilty Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Two Factors that May Change the Impeachment Calculus, Part One: To Enforce a GOP Subpoena Covering a Trump Lie to Mueller emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Two Factors that May Change the Impeachment Calculus, Part Two: Criminalizing a Roger Stone Pardon emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The gravedigger of democracy is now throwing dirt on the coffin digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
Phishing for Gynecology tristero, Hullabaloo
What should people do about on-line death threats? Spocko, Hullabaloo
The birds are not Hitchcock’s Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
The ugly truth makes every one of us a liar Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The weird continuing right wing obsession with the Kavanaugh affair Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
CNN Goes Hunting Wabbits driftglass, at his blog
Puzzle Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
IS AMERICA’S CONSERVATIVE PRESS DOING THE RUSSIANS’ JOB FOR THEM? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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