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 Beatles release their ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album; Actress Marilyn Monroe born; CNN hits the airwaves; Mormon leader Brigham Young born; Blind and deaf author and activist Helen Keller dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Breakfast News
Unrest overshadows peaceful US protests for another night
Aggressive policing tactics called into question as national protests flare
Officials see extremist groups, disinformation in protests
Atlanta mayor: 2 officers fired in ‘excessive force’ arrests
Protesters in some cities target Confederate monuments
SpaceX’s historic encore: Astronauts arrive at space station
World alarmed by violence in US; thousands march in London
Top opposition figure detained in Belarus
Protesting lawyers detained in Moscow for violating lockdown
Notre Dame forecourt opens to public after long cleanup
With masks and gloves, Ukraine’s priests return to duties
Nepal volunteers become local heroes during virus pandemic
Breakfast Blogs
Trump Has History With Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
“The Boss is Aware:” Trump Learned about Mike Flynn’s Conversations with Sergey Kislyak in Real Time emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Is The Time Of Keisha Lance Bottoms Now? bmaz, emptywheel
Assaults on Free Speech and the Cities We Didn’t See Rayne, emptywheel
Posse Comitatus is not what we think it is digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Who will step into this leadership vacuum? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Chief Justice Roberts Sides With Liberals and Mocks Conservatives in Ruling Against Evangelical Church Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
What we have here is a failure to hold police remotely accountable Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Deposed Monarch Blogging Update: House Bourbon Robert Farley, Lawyers, Guns and Money
When Beltway Pundits Dream, They Dream of Imaginary Lincoln driftglass, at his blog
Got Paranoia? Street Fighting Edition Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
ELECTORALLY, IT’S NOT 1968 Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
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