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 Pentagon Papers hits newsstands amid the Vietnam War; Thurgood Marshall nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court; The ‘Miranda’ warning; Pioneer 10 leaves solar system; Swing legend Benny Goodman dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
Breakfast News
The Latest: Dallas officials agree to 90-day ban on tear gas
Judge orders Seattle to stop using tear gas during protests
Treasury chief refusing to disclose recipients of virus aid
Some states hit pause, others press on amid spike in virus
CDC posts long-awaited tips for minimizing everyday risk
Florida migrant towns become coronavirus hot spots in US
Firefighters grapple with triple-digit heat against wildfire
Temperature spike: Earth ties record high heat May reading
MLB offers players 80% of prorated salaries, 72-game season
Face masks with windows mean more than smiles to deaf people
Aid groups ‘alarmed’ by little US coronavirus assistance
Indian capital’s crematoriums overwhelmed with virus dead
Syria economic meltdown presents new challenge for Assad
Pulling down statues of racists? Africa’s done it for years
Statues boarded up in London as more protests expected
Prince Charles to host Macron to mark De Gaulle WWII appeal
Breakfast Blogs
It Appears Republicans and Democrats Were Both Justified in Worrying About John Bolton’s Book Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Jeff Wall Admits that Any Scrutiny of DOJ’s Motion to Dismiss Flynn Prosecution Will Cause Irreparable Harm to Bill Barr emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
COVID-19 Exposes Migrant Worker Conditions Amounting To Modern Day Slavery In Florida Agriculture Jim White, emptywheel
June 1,2020, a day which will live in infamy digb aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
What matters and what doesn’t Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Redactions in CDC Communications Policies Leave Key Questions Unanswered Anna Diakun, Just Security
Did a Government Drone Flight Over a Protest Violate the Fourth Amendment? Nathaniel Sobel, Lawfare
The Rapidly Expanding Frontiers of Fighting Our Racist History Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The coming 2020 ratf*ck: cutouts and conduits edition Dan Nexon, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Apology Not Offered Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Trump administration will now allow doctors to discriminate against LGBTQ people Katelyn Burns, Vox
Cotton Mouth Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
JARED KUSHNER IS THE ’62 METS OF POLITICAL AIDES Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Let’s Say Buh-Bye To ‘Qualified Immunity’! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Tucker Carlson Heard About Some Boobies And Now He Is So Mad Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Propaganda Outlet OANN Yanks Pro-Trump Poll For Being TOO STUPID, EVEN FOR THEM Liz Dye, Wonkette
Black Lives Matter Goes Mainstream Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
Iowa Mail-In Voting Worked So Well, Republicans Promise #NEVERAGAIN Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Please, Andrew Cuomo, The Columbus Statues Are Embarrassing. Let Them Go. Roby Pennacchia, Wonkette