The Breakfast Club (Good Question)

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

Crisis unfolds in Little Rock, Ark. over racial integration in schools; Ford rolls out its ill-fated Edsel; Attorney William Kunstler dies; Mark Spitz sets Olympic gold record; Singer Beyonce born.

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul Samuelson

Breakfast News

5 Things to Know for Today

The Latest: Myrtle Beach, SC, extends virus mask mandate

White House faces skepticism over prospects for a vaccine

Federal task force kills Portland shooting suspect at arrest

Mayor suspends officers involved in man’s suffocation death

Police use of spit hoods scrutinized after Black man’s death

North Carolina kicks off mail voting as requests spike

New Hampshire 16-year-old swims across English Channel

Asia Today: India adds another 83K, nears 2nd most in world

UN experts raise concerns over Hong Kong security law

2nd crew member, dead cows found after ship sinks off Japan

Freight firms warn of Brexit disruption amid UK-EU deadlock

Phew! Revolting spit and poo brews shown in Swedish exhibit

Breakfast Blogs

This Is the Latest From the Masks-Are-Jackboots Crowd Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Treasury Threatens to Prosecute Reporters Trying to Reveal What Rod Rosenstein and Richard Burr Would Not emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

185,963 Rayne, emptywheel

It’s the pandemic stupid digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

It’s the insecurity, stupid Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Federal Court Skeptical of Trump’s Efforts to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants from Census Apportionment Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime

The D.C. Circuit Got History Wrong in its McGahn Decision Jonathan Staub, Lawfare

Thirty-Six Hours of Cheapfakes Quinta Jurecic and Jacob Schulz, Lawfare

No-knock warrants are never justifiable Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The NFL’s “Commitment” to Racial Justice Erik Loomis, aLwyers,, Guns and Money

Goodfellas v. Casino Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Rand Paul Running Away From Libertarianism driftglass, at his blog

LASER-FOCUSED ON THE ISSUES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CARE MOST ABOUT Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

Ted Cruz, Friends: If We Lie About Abortion Pill REAL BAD Can We Get FDA To Ban It? Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

Trump Admin Half-Asses An Eviction Moratorium, Hooray! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette

We Just Put A Human Rights Official On List Of ‘Terrorists Not Allowed To Do Business With America’ Liz Dye, Wonkette

The Election Is In Two Months. PLAN YOUR F*CKIN’ VOTE! Evan Hurst, Wonkette