The Breakfast Club (The Silence)

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

Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Tokyo Bay; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller born; Word of what becomes known as ‘The Roswell Incident’; North Korea’s Kim Il Sung dies; Ziegfeld stages first ‘Follies.’

Breakfast Tunes

Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Breakfast Blogs

Dear America, Do Not Walk Away From Ron DeSantis—Run Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics

Robert Costello Reveals He Was Working for Steve Bannon a Year before He Was Publicly Hired emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel

War For Ukraine Day 134: Russia Tries To Press Its Advantage in the East, Ukraine Continues To Counterattack in Kherson Adam L. Silverman, Balloon Juice

Tricky Dick Redux digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo

American Surrealism tristero, Digby’s Hullabaloo

A break in the post-Roe weather? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo

Jury Says Texas City Must Pay Woman $60k After Cops Destroyed Her Home To Apprehend A Suspect Tim Cushing, Techdirt

The Dumb Right Wing Push To Ban TikTok Misses The Bigger Picture Karl Bode, Techdirt

IRS Asks Watchdog to Investigate Decision to Audit James Comey and Andrew McCabe Adam Klasfeld, Law & Crime

Derek Chauvin Sentenced to 21 Years After Striking Rare Type of Plea Deal on Federal Civil Rights Charges Connected to George Floyd’s Death Aaron Keller, Law & Crime

Resistance To The Dobbs Decision Cheryl Rofer, Lawyers, Guns and Money

The most outrageous example of Campus PC being out of control since the Oberlin student said a pulled pork sandwich shouldn’t be called “banh mi” Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Significant cultural monument destroyed by fundamentalist Christian lunatics egged on by fascist politicians and it’s not even a story Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,141 Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money

MAYBE RON DeSANTIS WILL STEAL HIS OWN REELECTION Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog

LA’s Progressive Prosecutor May Face Recall For Not Throwing Enough Kids In Adult Prison Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette

WTF Is A ‘Georgia Guidestone’ And Why Are America’s Least Stable People Happy It Got Blowed Up? Evan Hurst, Wonkette

By ‘Coincidence’ IRS Slaps Trump Enemies James Comey And Andy McCabe With Rare ‘Random’ Audit Liz Dye, Wonkette

UK Shan’t Have Boris Johnson To Punt In The Bollocks, Anon, Mayhap! Doktor Zoom, Wonkette