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
US launches 2003 attack on Baghdad; Televangelist Jim Bakker quits ministry due to scandal; Nevada legalizes casino gambling; Bob Dylan’s debut album is released.
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn’t working.
Breakfast News
What’s Happening: Trump taps powers, auto factories closing
Freddie, Fannie suspend some evictions and foreclosures
USDA to appeal ruling, seeks food stamp change amid pandemic
US Census Bureau suspends field operations on virus concerns
Stocks tumble, investors dash for cash amid recession fears
Coronavirus layoffs spark surge in state jobless claims
Endangered gray wolf population on the rise in southwest US
The show will go on. Just from their living rooms.
The Latest: Wuhan reports no new cases of virus infection
Africa should ‘prepare for the worst’ with virus, WHO says
Lack of clean water for India’s poor spawns virus concerns
Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge
Balkans fights virus amid lack of doctors, medical supplies
Best strategies against virus: Track, isolate, communicate
Canada announces massive aid package amid pandemic
Breakfast Blogs
The Push to Send Everyone a Check Is the Final Triumph of the Blog’s First Rule of Economics Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Politics
On Ronna McDaniel’s (Still Undisclosed) Test Results emptywheel aka Marcy Wheeler, emptywheel
Highlights of today’s atrocity digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Digby’s Hullabaloo
Wrong man, wrong place, wrong time Tom Sullivan, Digby’s Hullabaloo
The Hospital Deluge Is Coming. Washington Has Done Almost Nothing to Prepare. Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
What would a rational harm reduction strategy for coronavirus look like? Paul Campos, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Can you own the libs when the libs have already owned you? ScottLemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Dream Piece Yastreblyansky, The Rectification of Names
DO DEMOCRATS HAVE A PLAN FOR WINNING IN NOVEMBER IF VOTERS DON’T WANT TO GO TO THE POLLS? Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
Good Lord, Is He Going To Crash The Market Every Day With These Batsh*t Pressers? Liz Dye, Wonkette
Ding Dong, Dan Lipinski Is Gone! Jamie Lynn Crofts, Wonkette
Right-Wing Economic Assholes Need To Self-Quarantine Their Mouths Until Pandemic Ends Stephen Robinson, Wonkette
GOP Congressman Pretty Sure God Hates Fags More Than He Hates Coronavirus Evan Hurst, Wonkette
Trump Should Watch This February Video Of Him Saying Damn Right He Fired The Pandemic Response Team Doktor Zoom, Wonkette