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
Sen. Joseph McCarthy confronted over his anti-communist tactics; Author Charles Dickens dies; Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns; Secretariat wins Triple Crown; Electric guitar pioneer Les Paul born.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/napoleon_bonaparte_101124
Breakfast News
A US recession began in February in the face of coronavirus
Behind virus and protests: A chronic US economic racial gap
‘A big test’: Hard-hit New York City begins reopening
California OKs movie theaters to reopen with limited seats
New York poised to lift veil on police disciplinary files
Law Enforcement ‘Strategically Deflated’ Tires During Minneapolis Protests
VA County Weighing Hate Crime Charges After ‘KKK Leader’ Plowed Truck Into Protesters
Cristobal to merge with new storm system after lashing South
MLB offers 76-game season, playoffs rise up to 16 teams
World leaders won’t gather at UN for first time in 75 years
N. Korea says it will cut communication channels with South
Concealing virus is latest Bolsonaro effort shore up base
Russia charges plant director in Arctic diesel fuel spill
Settler leader: Netanyahu moving ahead with annexation plans
Urgent meeting of UN rights body sought after Floyd killing
Germany: US troop reduction could harm NATO security
Building works re-start in Paris’ fire-ravaged Notre Dame
Panda escapes from enclosure at Danish zoo; returned safely
Breakfast Blogs
Two Men—One on Each Coast—Drove Cars Into Crowds of Protesters This Weekend Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
Defendant Barr’s Flip-Flops Finally Attract Press Attention emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
The Why of “Defund the Police” Rayne, emptywheel
Social unrest and economic distress. What could go wrong? digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Recasting the tin soldiers Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
New Complicity Charges Filed in the Killing of George Floyd Beth Van Schaack, Just Security
Newly Released Body Cam Video Shows Deputies Tasing Man Who Said ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Before He Died Alberto Luperon, Law & Crime
‘Strategically Deflated’: Authorities Admit to Slashing Tires on Cars Belonging to Protesters and Journalists in Minneapolis Jerry Lambe, Law & Crime
Bunker Baby is very upset about the very unfair polls Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
The Fight Against Racist Statues Goes Global Erik Loomis, Lawyers, Guns and Money
It’s Not Just About the Cops Simon Balto, Lawyers, Guns and Money
OMFG 38% of Americans! driftglass, at his blog
Refound the Police Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
TRUMP’S “RACE SPEECH” WON’T BE A RACE SPEECH Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
John Bolton: Let’s Just Do It And Be Legends Man Liz Dye, Wonkette
Kimberly Jones Is Done Playing a Rigged Game Of Monopoly With America Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
GoFundMe Tells Candace Owens To Go Fu** Herself After She Tries To Raise Money For Racist Bar Owner Robyn Pennacchia, Wonkette
Trump Healing America With Race Speech Best Trump Idea Since ‘Bleach’ Evan Hurst, Wonkette