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
England’s King John signs the Magna Carta; A deadly steamboat fire in New York City; Jordan’s King Hussein weds American Lisa Halaby; Arlington National Cemetery created; Singer Ella Fitzgerald dies.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.
Breakfast News
Experts hail swift moves in wake of Atlanta police shooting
Rethinking police: How Camden, NJ, reimagined its force
Care-free days at theme parks giving way to virus safeguards
Blind voters fear loss of privacy with shift to mail voting
Pandemic leads to a bicycle boom, and shortage, around world
Some tribes reopen their casinos despite state opposition
US base namesakes include slaveholders, failed generals
AP Explains: Vile US history of lynching of people of color
Accuracy still unknown for many coronavirus tests rushed out
Philippine journalist convicted of libel, given 6-year term
Russia’s low virus death toll still raises questions in West
Europe reopens many borders but not to Americans, Asians
French leader rejects racism but colonial statues to remain
2 Sydney statues of British explorer James Cook vandalized
Putin suggests he was key in Kosovo airport occupation
Breakfast Blogs
One of the Most Charitable Acts I Know Is the Effort by South Carolinians to Remove Lindsey Graham Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Shocker: the GOP isn’t serious about police reform digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Make America greater than Chile again? Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Toward Neutral Principles of Anti-Anti Trumpism Steve Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
TRUMP TO BLACK PEOPLE: WE’RE STILL FRIENDS, RIGHT? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Right-Wing Media Outraged Google Wiped Winston Churchill Off The Internet (They Didn’t) Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Georgia’s OTHER Senate Race Might Not Be A Cakewalk For GOP, Either Doktor Zoom, Wonkette
Atlanta Mayor Actually Holds Police Accountable For Killing Man In Wendy’s Parking Lot Stephen Robinson, Wonkette